14 Angling Travels in Norway. 



with a week of warm weather they may be expected, and 

 subsequent events prove them to be correct. 



A week of inactivity is no pleasant prospect for the 

 angler, but in consideration of the volume of icy water 

 pouring into the fjord it is but reasonable that the rise 

 in temperature is so long delayed, in spite of tidal 

 influence. 



Cold northerly winds, attended by sleet and rain, will 

 naturally delay ascent of fish, and the angler may possibly 

 have to bide his time until the middle of June with the 

 only consolation — better too soon than too late. 



Upon early rivers, even in a late season, the middle 

 of June should herald a run of fish, then work begins, and 

 the angler must settle to business, fishing, according to 

 his lights, until the middle of August, when small waters 

 and golden-tinted flanks will warn him that it be time 

 to desist. 



The lakes of Norway are often frozen during the 

 winter months, and naturally take long to thaw, when 

 they have no stream to sweep away their ice cover, and 

 the JQclds by which they are approachable are so wet 

 and rotten that they are almost impracticable until July ; 

 but this delay is of little importance to the angler, as 

 the inhabitants of the lakes do not regain fair condition 

 until the middle of that month, or even the early days 

 of August. 



