THE HAEAKA C^TJB. 



The Vuoksa River Imatra Falls The Haraka Fishing Club Marvellous 

 Trout Fishing Weights of various Fish I capture Two Monsters 

 Arrival of the Grand Dukes Extracts from the Club Journal Fight 

 with an Eighteen-and-a-half Pounder Fight with a Seventeen-pounder 

 Two Monsters at Once I am entertained at Helsingfors Lake 

 Paijanne The Kalkis Fishing and Shooting Club Fishing in the 

 Kymmene Heinola Fishing at Koskeniska Tammerfors Fishing in 

 the Kumo Steamers to Finland Passports Fishing License for the 

 Uleo Remarks upon Travel and Sport in Finland Lake Systems of 

 Finland. 



THE Vuoksa Eiver drains that large area of lakes 

 which comprise the water system of south-eastern 

 Finland, leaving Lake Saima, and running a short 

 course into Lake Ladoga, from which the Neva leads 

 into the Gulf of Finland. Not far from the exit of 

 the Yuoksa from Lake Saima is the village of Will- 

 manstrand, connected by rail with St. Petersburg and 

 with the Finnish main line at Simola. Just at this 

 point there is treble attraction, the angling portion of 

 which, namely, the most remarkable trout fishing 

 imaginable, I will describe last. 



The first object is the Saima Canal, by which one 

 can travel to the lake from Wiborg; the second, the 

 Imatra Falls, as engrossing and impressive in their 

 own style as Niagara. The Yuoksa is quite a large 

 river, but it is here compressed into a narrow chasm 

 ten yards in width, inclined at a steep angle, and 

 rushes with overwhelming force into a large circular 

 pool, raising mountains of water which rise and fall 



