234 THE V1SKA AND THE SAVE. 



largest fish. Towards autumn, few others besides grilse are 

 to he killed. 



The Viska is the next river. But here, as at Halmstad, 

 there are weirs below all the rapids, so that though one may 

 perchance kill a salmon, anything worthy to be called sport 

 is not to be anticipated so long, at least, as the weirs 

 remain uninjured for as with other rivers, these are not 

 unfrequently carried away by floods, or are wilfully destroyed, 

 in which case one may meet with good fishing in the upper 

 part of the stream. 



The Viska, like the Atra, is an early river, and the fish 

 are pretty large. 



We have then the Save, a stream of no great magnitude, 

 flowing into the Gotha, a mile or two above the town of 

 Gothenburg. 



Some years ago there was good fishing in the Save. One 

 day, with the aid of the proprietor of the fishery, who 

 occasionally took a cast with my rod, I killed six salmon, 

 weighing one with another, sixteen to seventeen pounds, 

 beside losing two equally large. 



But a weir now crosses the stream below the rapids, so 

 that only a stray fish can pass, and little or nothing is there- 

 fore to be done with the rod. 



The river (whose name I forget) at Qvistrum, a hamlet 

 situated a few miles to the northward of the town of 

 Uddevalla, is the next in order. 



As far as appearances go, this is as nice a stream for 

 fishing as one would. wish to see; for within the space of 

 three to four miles from the sea upwards, there are half- 

 a-score or more of fine pools and rapids well calculated for 

 the fly. But nets, unfortunately, arc constantly at work, and 



