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stretch of six to seven miles, which is essentially harling 

 » water, as, with the exception of a few short casts, the river 

 is of such width, and the fish so few and far between, that 

 by any other method half a day would be required to 

 fish a single pool, and this is more or less the situation 

 in all the big and medium-size rivers of Norway. Above 

 this beat are three others much better adapted for casting 

 the fly, either from boat or bank, but, being further from 

 the sea, the fish, from what I could gather, do not take 

 as freely, and those fishing the beat next above us sorely 

 complained of the necessity in many pools of helping the 

 fly round on account of the slack stream ; yet in most 

 seasons more fish would probably be killed in beats 

 Nos. 2 and 3 than in Nos. 1, 4, and 5. 



We divided our water into three sections, fishing them 

 in rotation, and working fairly hard whenever there was 

 half a chance. I killed in a period of seven weeks 420 lbs. 

 of salmon, and about 100 lbs. of bull-trout, sea-trout, etc. ; 

 and we made the total 660 lbs. of salmon and 150 lbs. of 

 other Salmonidse. 



Two of us were upon our first visit to the river, and 

 our host had not fished it for two or three years, so I 

 imagine, had we been better anglers, and more acquainted 

 with it, we should have made finer practice. 



The largest fish we killed was a cock of 30 lbs., which 

 fell to my rod, and on July 23 I killed three fish, 17 lbs., 



