98 Angling Travels in Norway. 



The brown trout I have killed by the hundreds in 

 rivers, and pools of rivers, whose beds have embraced every 

 composition, flooded either by the product of glacier, or 

 spring water mixed with melted snow. 



The colouring and condition of these fish will naturally 

 be in accordance with the surroundings. Some are light in 

 colour and round in outline, others are of dusky hue, lank, 

 and apparently ill-fed. 



It is said that " beauty is but skin-deep," and these 

 long, dusky trout well illustrate the proverb, for although 

 they appear of such condition that would prompt their 

 return to the water, in reality they are in the perfect 

 stage of their existence. They have conformed to the 

 exigencies of the occasion, and, what is more, have thriven 

 under difficulties. They fight as lions, and when cut open 

 their flesh is of the colour of pink blotting-paper, with a 

 layer of fat between the flakes. 



I have killed trout in chains of lakes connected by rivers 

 of small and medium size which are fed for some miles by 

 springs and snow-water, then at a point the melted water 

 of a glacier may augment the stream, and impart to it, for 

 a few miles, that peculiar greenish tint. 



Above the influx of the glacier- water the trout have 

 been from 2 lb. to 2 lbs. or more apiece, but in this 

 greenish-coloured water the fish became very scarce, and 

 only weighing about 4 lb. each ; but further down, as the 



