158 Angling Travels in Norway. 



15 lbs., and 14 lbs., which was the best day's work for 

 one rod during the season, both for number and total 

 weight. 



In no particular of make or shape, excepting some 

 slight local peculiarity, can I detect any difference between 

 the British and Scandinavian salmon. 



In previous years fish over 40 lbs. in weight have 

 been taken by rod in this water, but, with the exception 

 of one, which was lost by a member of our party, I think 

 that of 30 lbs. was the heaviest we hooked. 



At one time we had on the stone slab outside the 

 house two fish of 28 lbs. each, and a third of 26 lbs., 

 but the smallest was killed the day after the others. 



One of these 2 8 -lb. fish was of excellent proportions, 

 and was only excelled in this respect by a hen of 26 lbs., 

 which I killed on June 21, than which I have never seen 

 a prettier. Her length was 42 inches, and her girth 

 21 inches, and, taking them all round, the fish of the 

 Siirna would lose nothing by comparison with those of 

 other rivers in Europe. 



In the month of June we landed two kelts, a cock 

 of 12 lbs. and a hen of 13 lbs., in all probability being 

 about the last to drop down from the uppermost spawning 

 beat, for we saw no others. 



This beat, as I have explained above, is but a few 

 miles from the fjord, so it was not surprising that many 



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