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" Of grayling and small trout," says Mr. Hutchinson, 

 when speaking of the rivers flowing into the Bothnian Gulf, 

 " there is the greatest abundance. I remember having 

 killed seven dozen and a half in about three hours, under the 

 falls at Lyksele in Lapland. I do not think there are any 

 large trout in this river, at least I never killed nor saw 



them." " On the road from Sundsvall to Norway, I 



had frequent opportunities of fishing the streams tributary 

 to the large Swedish rivers. There are grayling and trout 

 in all of them, and he must be a bad fisherman who cannot 

 soon fill his basket. I and my two fellow-travellers killed 

 one evening twenty dozen ; of course they were small, but 

 we took several of between two and three pounds." 



Mr. Richard Dann speaks of trout and grayling, more 

 especially the latter, being most abundant in the northern 

 rivers, and tells me he has often captured seventy to eighty 

 in the course of a few hours. 



I myself can bear testimony to the abundance of both 

 trout and grayling in the northern rivers, as well from expe- 

 rience in the upper portion of the Clara, near to the lake 

 Fcemund, as in Lapland. 



One day, for instance, when fishing in a tributary of the 

 river Kemi, situated in about the 69 of latitude, I took 

 fifty brace and a half of these fish with the fly. Nearly the 

 whole were of a good size, and their weight together must 

 very considerably have exceeded a hundred pounds. The 

 fish were quite a load, in fact, for my two men, who conveyed 

 them from the boat to our bivouac, which was at some little 

 distance. 



The charr, as well as the trout and the grayling, in some 

 places also afford the northern fishermen admirable sport. 



