TBOUT-FISHINa IN SWEDISH LAPLAND. 



Remarkable Position of a Trout-hook How to reach Lapland I cross the 

 Divide Commence Angling "Wonderful Fishing Another Lake 

 Children left to themselves Netting Following the Seddvastrom A 

 Waterfall The Seddvajaure A deserted Hamlet Duck Shooting 

 Lapp Witch at the Ringselet Plenty of Trout Gaikvik Swallows 

 and Gnats Great Horn Lake Angling at Arjeploug Large Trout 

 Grayling Fish-trap at the Mill The Furia Infernalis The Udjaure 

 Monstrous Trout Fishing in the Shellefteo The Rapids Bastusele 

 More Rapids A lonely Settler The Umeo Angling in the Great 

 Umeo Lake Char Remarks about Touring in Lapland The Lapps 

 A Wolf Hunt Grouse in Lapland Reindeer. 



WHATEVER may be the reason which causes Swedish 

 salmon to disregard an artificial lure, the Swedish 

 trout has no such scruples. He considers (till he has 

 tried it) that the very rudest apology for a spoon bait 

 is good wholesome food. On one occasion I actually 

 caught one that already had, firmly fixed in his in- 

 terior, a brass hook. This hook was an inch and 

 three-quarters in length, and eight and a quarter 

 inches of twisted wires were fastened to it. The last 

 three inches trailed from his mouth, and seemed in 

 nowise to inconvenience him, for he seized my spoon 

 bait with great ferocity, and was found to scale just 

 seven pounds. 



This brass hook and its appendages lie before me 

 on the table, and once formed part of a long line, laid 

 in the Shellefteo Eiver. In some Swedish rivers the 

 trout fishing is good from source to sea. In others 

 jack abound. But above the zone of the fir and pine 



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