SALMON-FISHING IN SUKENDAL. 97 
the rod-top was dropped with the same lucky results, 
till he presently lay well in the mouth of the back¬ 
water, and by his broad tail and dorsal, now showing, 
we saw he was a big one. Moments of intense suspense 
followed, while the big fish, though in no sense played 
out, or even tired, obeying the joint impulse of stream 
and rod, slowly began to drop, tail-first, down the 
rapid—he was, in short, completely kidded into a trap, 
“kidded” into by-stream, and killed in eight MINUTES—WEIGHT, 28 LBS. 
and a pretty manoeuvre it was. Ivar stood knee-deep 
in mid-stream, and as the salmon backed down, neatly 
gaffed him in about eight minutes from the start—a 
bit of luck we had scarce hoped for. This fish weighed 
28 lbs., and measured 42 inches with a girth of 214 . 
F. to-day killed a fish of the same weight in Korsin ; 
but the two were of very different types—mine being of 
the heavy, hog-backed form, while his was a regular 
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