68 A RIVER OF NORWAY 



bank ; in low water in the stream at the head, 

 or at the tail on the shelving shore of a rocky 

 island a short distance above the bridge. In 

 this year of great floods this rock has twice 

 been completely submerged at the beginning 

 of June and again at the beginning of July 

 an event which has not occurred before in our 

 experience. It is here that we have sometimes 

 met with the sluggish fish referred to in a pre- 

 vious chapter. Probably they are bad travellers, 

 which have not taken the leaps in the ladder 

 in good style, and have knocked themselves up. 

 But they are not all so wanting in energy. I 

 remember one which went down under the 

 bridge and perilously near to the Fos. To go 

 below the bridge in a boat is not attractive, 

 with the great Fos ahead, and it was necessary 

 to induce this misguided salmon to return. 



Owing to its being so near to the house, this 

 pool gets a great deal of fishing in the course 

 of the season. But though it is often crowded 

 with fish, and in the warm evenings of July they 

 will jump around one in very provoking fashion, 

 it cannot be said that the results are satisfactory. 

 For some reason or other fish often do not rise 

 well here. Yet close to the rock at the bottom 



