72 A RIVER OF NORWAY 



might be done to make pools, but it is a trouble- 

 some and expensive business. Not the least of 

 the difficulties connected with it, is the necessity 

 of settling with the riparian owners. The erec- 

 tion of a barrier in such a swift river may easily 

 have quite unexpected results on the banks be- 

 low, and if no agreement covering this has been 

 entered into beforehand, the angler may be con- 

 fronted with a heavy claim for damages. And 

 unless one has a greater security of tenure than 

 is usual nowadays in Norway, it is hardly worth 

 while to do much; especially as one is certain 

 in the future to have to pay rent on one's own 

 improvements. 



A little above this we enter a better region. 

 The river contracts and forms a series of natural 

 pools known to us as Aamot's (" Waters- 

 meet," from the junction of a tributary with 

 the main river). The lowest of these is as 

 fine a pool as one may wish to see, fishable in 

 high or low water, from a boat or from the 

 right bank. On this bank the ground is very 

 rocky and rugged, the mountain rising steeply 

 from the river. To facilitate casting, I have 

 erected a long stage. But there is the dis- 

 advantage that one cannot follow a fish that 



