2i8 Angling Travels in Norway. 



fish made it hard to keep from slipping, and although I 

 have fished salmon for five and twenty years, this is the 

 only fish who has got me real warm and just a bit done 

 at the finish. The next time you give me a fish. Oh ! 

 Saghoug, kindly order him a trifle smaller." 



An angler visiting this pool for the first time might 

 think it one of the easiest in the world to fish, and 

 it is as far as concerns the casting. It is true there are 

 some trees near behind from where one casts when the 

 water is big, and lower down the hay-racks (fences upon 

 which hay is dried) stand high upon the rising bank 

 behind, and they have unnecessarily long uprights. I 

 have seen several casts and flies broken in them, but prin- 

 cipally through bad casting or right-hand fishing, for if 

 the pool be cast left-handed, as it should be, i.e. with the 

 left hand uppermost, there is no reason why the obstacles 

 should interfere, and the angler must merely place his fly 

 lightly on the water with a perfectly straight line ; in fact, 

 he should make an ordinary cast until he arrives at the 

 end of the platform, when a very long and good cast will 

 occasionally give a fish. A few casts can also be made 

 from the bank below the platform, but only small 

 fish lie there, close in ; and although, as far as one's 

 chance there is concerned, it would be preferable to 

 fish it before casting frrm the platform, I usually 



