74 A RIVER OF NORWAY 



think that the killing of a fish in a pool renders 

 it useless for further fishing, and that you 

 had better proceed at once to the next. My 

 experience is quite the other way. I doubt 

 if the other fish connect the extraordinary 

 behaviour of their companion with any outside 

 agency. Once or twice I have tried fishing with 

 two flies, a practice learnt in Ireland. I have 

 given it up, finding on more than one occasion 

 that when I hooked a fish on the tail fly, it was 

 as likely as not that another took the dropper, 

 and to have two lusty salmon pulling different 

 ways on a single gut cast is more than it can 

 be expected to stand. 



Above the main Aamot's Pool are two or 

 three casts from the big boulders which line 

 the shore, and then we come to a long rapid, 

 at the top of which is the best-looking piece 

 of water on the river, known as Furenaes 

 Stream. In some seasons it holds many fish. 

 There is a legend that a certain Captain K. 

 hooked a fish in high water from the left bank, 

 which promptly made down the rapid. On this 

 side it is impossible to go down the bank ; trees 

 grow close to the water's edge and overhang 

 the river. Close to the bank the water is in 



