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hereafter. If a man has only a full purse, he can always obtain 

 sport go where he will, and requires but little information or 

 advice from anyone as to where he had best pitch his tent ; but 

 there are many other men quite as enthusiastic, and probably equally 

 good with the rod, whose means are limited ; and to such men I 

 would say, try our Swedish waters before going up to Norway. 



The expense of a Norwegian trip is no trifle, what with guides, 

 &c. ', and of course living in that country rises in proportion to the 

 number of rich Englishmen that visl. it. I suppose on some 

 of these Norwegian streams, if a man goes for notliing but 

 salmon-fishing, he may kill any quantity of fish, but the 

 expense of the trip will be commensurate with the sport obtained. 

 On referring to Mr. Lloyd's " Scandinavian Adventures," we shall 

 read that a friend of his, in 1842, from the i5tli of June to the 8th 

 of August, killed on the Namsen 323 salmon, weighing in tlie 

 aggregate 3840 lb., and was obhged to leave off for want of tackle. 

 And in the same book we find an account of one season's fishing at 

 Ronnum — Mr. Lloyd's fishing-station on the south of the Wenern 

 — where that gentleman killed with his own rod, in one particular 

 season (although, as he himself remarks, he had others nearly 

 equally good) — 



120 trout, heavy 1^96 lb. 



75 do., smaller 201 lb, 



15 perch 15 lb. 



364 pike 827 lb. 



I pike-perch 4 lb. 



5 ide 21 lb. 



580 fish. 2864 lb. 



It must, however, be borne in mind that few better fishermen 

 have ever come into Sweden than Mr. Lloyd, and also tliat tht> 

 Ronnum water is not now what it was in his day. But, to mv 

 fancy, there are stiU many places on the north-east of the Wenern 

 quite as good as Ronnum ever was. And as I do not in the least 

 doubt that every pound of the Namsen salmon cost at least six tines 



