246 TROUT AND GRAYLING FISHING. 



A man, indeed, cannot well go wrong in the peninsula, for 

 let him fish where he will, he is pretty sure to meet with 

 sport. 



On the small river at Qvistrum, recently spoken of, for 

 instance, two friends and myself once killed, in the course of 

 a few hours, upwards of two hundred trout. They were 

 small, it is true, hut must have weighed together, never- 

 theless, between twenty and 'thirty pounds. 



Others have had even better sport in this stream. " From 

 about three in the afternoon until between seven and eight 

 in the evening," writes Mr. Edward W. Foster, " I took six 

 dozen and five trout a few of them a pound in weight, 

 some three-quarters, and many half-a-pound. This was quite 

 upon a par with some of the best fly-fishing days of Loch 

 Awe in Scotland." And he adds : " I had a long bout of it 

 on Monday over a good deal of the same water, and caught 

 between seven and eight dozen of trout some few of even 

 better size than those of the preceding evening." 



There are hundreds of other rivers throughout Scandi- 

 navia that would, no doubt, afford equal or superior sport. 

 Near to the sources of several that fall into the Cattegat, 

 I have heard of great things being done. 



But although almost every stream in Scandinavia affords 

 trout, and beyond the 59 or 60 of latitude, grayling also, 

 still, the farther the fisherman proceeds to the north, the 

 more amusement he will meet with. Fish are not only more 

 plentiful in the remote rivers, but from being little perse- 

 cuted, they are less shy. But little skill, moreover, is 

 required here, for let the fly be black, blue, or yellow, or of 

 the colours of the rainbow, trout, as well as grayling, seem 

 to take it with the like avidity. 



