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* ■ ' Salmonidag of Norway. ^7 



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.f *. ^ their 'species 



the ]-ougliest portion of the pool, and when they have 

 risen I have frequently been near enough to determine 



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■j^ . ■ :• *» They are exceedingly wary, and, although I have spent 



Ai hours in the endeavour to kill them, I have only upon a 

 single occasion succeeded in hooking one, and fortunately 

 killed him, upon an ordinary small March l)rown. He 

 weighed 7 lbs., and was a very fine fish. 



Previous to landing him I was certain of his species, 

 and the peculiar swirl and swish of the trout's rise when 

 ^. . feeding is different to that of either salmon, sea-trout, or 

 bull-trout. 



Taking them in their order of merit, the next best 



. trout I have killed were those captured in fast-running, 



r gravel-bottomed pools of rivers scarcely one hundred yards 



•» above the outlet into the lake. 



* These fish ranged from 1 lb. to 3 lbs. in weight, and 



• by., the middle of July were in splendid condition, both 



in respect of colour and proportion, in great contrast to 



those in the rock-bound pools scarce fifty yards above, 



which were as long as eels and brown as berries. 



The fine-conditioned yellow trout I have only killed 



in such situations as above described ; they give excellent 



1^ sport, but are most disaj^ointing when brought to table, 



the colour of the flesh being but a yellowish pink, and 



they cut up none too crisply. 







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