SALMON-FISHING IN SONDHORDLAND. 65 
enthusiasm, impatient of delay, spurned counsel of 
wisdom, and preferred even certain failure to the misery 
of inaction. The day, moreover, was dull and cloudy, 
and we thought there might be a chance. Having well 
“ messed ” our home pool by the bridge (“Enge-broen”), 
easily cast from a level sward, I proceeded to the next, 
Busketieg. Here the stream runs strongest under the 
angler s feet, but a high gravel bank at his shoulder 
at first presents some difficulty in the back-cast. This, 
however, is soon overcome (in all such cases) by return¬ 
ing the fly straight up-stream, afterwards impelling it 
outwards during the forward movement.* Five yards 
below the stream-head there came the glorious swirl, 
a plunge of a pointed fin, and the Black Doctor went 
home in response. Ten minutes later Lars had gaffed 
the first—a ten-pounder fresh from sea. The next pool, 
Lydskar, is also easy, but requires a rather longer cast, 
the main stream running in the centre while the 
“ catch ” lies beyond, and a backwater on the hither 
side demands a wide berth, f Here, again, I was soon 
fast in a heavier fish which, after twenty minutes’ smart 
running to the verge of the rapids below, registered 
23 lbs. The sun now glinting through the clouds, the 
two next pools fished blank, and we set out to return to 
* There are four methods of fishing such pools :—(1) as de¬ 
scribed ; (2) by bringing the fly out over one shoulder, returning it 
over the other ; (3) by a perpendicular cast; (4) by the Spey cast; 
the latter only in heavy water. The choice of the other three 
depends on the wind, etc. 
t This pool should, of course, be fished from the other side; 
but the river was impassable, and neither boat nor bridge for a mile 
or two. The same remark applies to other pools described passim; 
while in others, again, thick forest or high rocks compel one to fish 
from the “ wrong side.” 
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