TROUT-FISHING IN SWEDISH LAPLAND. 55 



of the trout no doubt run very large, but these latter 

 seem to prefer the lower end of the lake. In that 

 part of the river which I was now engaged in follow- 

 ing, are several falls up which the trout cannot go, 

 and consequently the fishing was not so good. In 

 saying this I am supposing that the larger trout 

 remain in the great lakes during the winter, and 

 make their way up or down the rivers when the 

 latter are thawed and freed from ice. 



Most of Lapland is well within the Arctic circle, 

 the cold during the winter is excessive, and the 

 amount of uncongealed flowing water in the rivers 

 very small indeed. 



At this point in the river, namely some forty miles 

 above the Great Horn Lake, I lost several fine casts 

 with flies, through striking fish too hard in the heavy 

 current, and only succeeded in landing a few small 

 ones. At one of the falls the water converges into a 

 deep tunnel, which it has worn out for itself in its 

 bed of rock, and the whole river, massed into one 

 grand body of water, shoots out into space amid 

 clouds of rainbow vapour, and, describing a splendid 

 curve in the air, falls thundering into a deep pool. 

 The large lake, where we expected to find our next 

 boat (after passing several smaller lakes), is called the 

 Seddva Jaure (jaure meaning lake in Lapland). The 

 boat, when found, had evidently not been used all the 

 summer, and the cracks had to be plugged with tar 

 and tow, which we had brought with us for the 

 purpose. This lake is seventeen miles in length, and 



