THE SOANDISTAVIAN PENIIirSULA 



hundred and one salmon, thirty-eight grilse, in all amounting to 

 one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three pounds. 



Fine beats may be had on the Orkla, a boat-fishing river ; 

 some famous ones being the AarUvold, Dragset, Lo, Dombu. 

 On the Gula fine beats are, Gidfos, Void, Eogstad, Langletet. 

 On the river Stjordal the best beats are the Hegre, Lerfold, Foro, 

 Floren-Kringen. Other good streams on which beats may be 

 had are the Etne, Aaro, or one may take a combination in the 

 Simdal Valley of the Nyheim and Lindal where there is salmon, 

 trout and lake river fishing and reindeer hunting. The Aargaard 

 Eiver in the Namsen Fjord, the Frafjord Eiver, Famous, the 

 Hyen, Tromsoe Amt, Nordland, Vefsen, Atran, !C>rordfjord, and 

 many more, to reach, which the angler takes the WUson Line of 

 steamers from HuU to Trondhjem, or Christiania, and by rail 

 to the former. The angler can make all arrangements ia London 

 for the, rent of beats, from some rehable agent, as Lumley & 

 Dowell, Lumley House, St. James Street, and doubtless there 

 are many others. 



There is an abundance of free trout fishing in l^Torway, as at 

 Sivertsen's Sande, Sondfjord, Eed Hotel, Nordfjord, Liland's 

 Hotel, Bolken. 



The beautiful trout streams of Finland have been referred 

 to. In North Finland, at Kajana, there is excellent fishing 

 for trout, grayling, etc., the season beginning the twentieth to 

 twenty-sixth of June. Fifty miles from here is Vaala on the 

 Elea Eiver, with salmon and sea-trout. 



In Iceland the season begins June the first, and lasts until 

 the first of September. There is fine salmon fishing within 

 three mUes of Eeykjavik. Jock Scott, the Doctors, Silver Gray 

 are favourite flies for Iceland, and the angler should remember 

 that Iceland is not an ice land in summer. It is within nine 

 hundred miles of Edinburgh and there is a regular hue of steamers 

 from Leith to Eeykjavik. There are snow-capped mountains, 

 glaciers ; but for the angler in search of salmon, grilse, brown 

 trout and char, there are flower-clad vaUeys, radiant green hills, 

 air pure and scintillant and the nightless day, 



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