2^2 Angling Travels in Norway. 



cannot fish vast expanses of almost untenanted water by 

 casting the fly. With a well-stocked river there would 

 be more encouragement so to do. 



I calculate that the fish run up in an average year 

 between the middle of June and August 1, and if three 

 rods over the best portion were to kill twenty fish 

 in five weeks, I should say that sport was what they 

 might expect. I should have a boat at each of the 

 pools between Drage and Nordnses, and walk from one 

 pool to the other, as the labour and expense of carting 

 would be great, and it is a nuisance drifting down useless 

 water. 



The gradient of the Salten is steep, and as the bed 

 is composed of gravel, with no small fosses or rocky falls 

 to make pools, the bed is constantly changing. 



From reliable information the Salten has not been 

 even a fair salmon river for the last fifteen years, and 

 I very much doubt, if left to its own devices, it ever 

 would become one, at all events not for a number of 

 years ; and it would always require to be fished in the 

 manner I have described in order to cover the fish lying 

 scattered all over the water. 



The Salten has more the cut of a sea-trout river, and 

 I think that any one laying himself out for this sport 

 would have a good time. 



July and August should be the best months for 



