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in the vicinity of the Hardanger Fjord. 

 This lasted from the first week in June 

 to about the second week in July. Then 

 we had thunder for some days, and the 

 weather became unsettled. The trout 

 went off extraordinarily, and, after they 

 had come at our lures with the wonderful 

 greed that Norsk trout are accustomed to 

 display early in the season, we could, for 

 about ten days, do very little with them. 

 From the time the fine spell was broken 

 by tli under, in fact to the end of July, 

 sport was comparatively indifferent." 



We have already seen how the Thames The Thames 

 trout may be caught in the most in- 

 clement weather, hail and snow appar- 

 ently conducing to success in pursuit of 

 it. Mr. Wheeley remembers taking one 

 of 7J Ibs. when worm-fishing for barbel in 

 a fearful thunderstorm. "Evening had 

 set in, and the fish had to be played and 

 landed in the light afforded by the vivid 

 flashes of lightning." 



Colonel St. Leger Moore once got 

 16 large white trout, some weighing up to 



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