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we intended to remain a few days to fish the last seven 

 miles of the river. 



Arrived at Sundby, the Enke Larsen descended from 

 hay gathering upon the hill side, and accorded us lodging 

 in her house, situated within a stone's throw of the river ; 

 then we unpacked our kit, and, having arranged for a 

 meal of some sort, we started off to assist the pot with 

 our rods. 



The ^ case was broken open without much ceremony, 

 and amongst the bottles we discovered the stores which 

 should have been in a separate case ; this put rather a 

 different complexion to the menu of our middag, and 

 restored my " old hand" to his habitual composure. 



In a couple of hours we killed a few sea-trout, one 

 of 4 lbs., which immediately fell into the pot; then we 

 dined, and set off to fish what we were told were the 

 best pools of the lower water ; but only killed about 

 25 lbs. of sea-trout, ranging from 2 lbs. to 4 lbs. a 

 piece. 



That evening there was a slight rise in the river, and 

 the following day we killed a grilse of 5 lbs., and about 

 20 lbs. of sea-trout, three or four scaling about 4 lbs. 

 each. Thus in a day and a half our bag merely consisted 

 of one grilse, 5 lbs., sea-trout about 40 lbs., one bull- 

 trout, one brown-trout, and one sea-char of about I lb. 

 Our boatman told us that harling with compound tackle 



