24 SPORT IN NORWAY. 



Properties owning the fishing are Vaernses Praestegaard, 

 Hove, and Ofsti near the mouth. The inhabitants fish 

 a good deal themselves, both with rod and net. 



The next river of any importance is VERBALS ELV, a 

 short distance to the north of Levanger, between which 

 place and Throndhjem there is steam communication. 

 Salmon go up to Vuku, where the road to Stockholm, 

 running through the beautiful and well-cultivated val- 

 ley of Vaerdal, crosses it. Here it commences to be 

 precipitous. The best time for fishing in this river is 

 early in July. It is about thirty miles distant from 

 Helle, mentioned above. 



The best fishing is high up in the river. The trout- 

 fishing is said to be very good in this river. 



About twenty-five or twenty-six miles to the north 

 is the famous Stenkjaer, where the river from Snaasen 

 Vand empties itself into the Throndhjem Fjord. The 

 scenery in this neighbourhood is surpassingly beautiful ; 

 and as the fishing is also first-rate, it cannot be too 

 highly recommended to the notice of sportsmen. There 

 is a good station at Stenkjaer ; and here the fishing is 

 excellent. 



The right of fishing on this river belongs to a Fru 

 Gram, owner of a property named By, with the ex- 

 ception of the last mile and a half, which belongs 

 to Hegge Gaard. The portion of the river between 

 Fossum Vand and the kke above, though short, is 



