THE RIVER GAULA 9 



the angler wades from the left shore, as is 

 possible. 



Some years ago, before our tenancy com- 

 menced, an article on this river appeared in an 

 English newspaper. The writer, among other 

 inaccuracies, stated that the tidal water was 

 so salt as to rot a gut cast, and that it was 

 necessary to use wire. Herr Landmark, the 

 Chief Fishery Inspector of Norway, was here a 

 year or two ago, and he told me that he had 

 frequently taken samples of the water at 

 different depths, and at different states of the 

 tide, from the neighbourhood of the quay 

 before mentioned, and that he had found no 

 trace of salt. His object was to ascertain 

 whether salmon could spawn in this water, to 

 which before the construction of the ladder 

 they were confined; a small quantity of salt 

 being fatal to the ova. As regards the state- 

 ment about gut, I am not aware whether salt 

 water rots it or not, but I have used the 

 same cast for two consecutive seasons in this 

 water, and killed several hundredweight of 

 fish with it, and it has exhibited no sign of 

 rottenness. 



Before our first visit, having little experience 



