SALMON-FISHING IN SURENDAL. 
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undeceived us. This fish ran in all directions, re¬ 
newing his strength as an eagle, and it was twenty 
minutes ere the gaff could be applied to as game a fish 
as ever swam—weight 17 lbs., clean-run, with sea-lice 
still adhering. 
The breeze dying away, the river fell too bright, and 
as a lot of logs were coming down, we could only kill 
time by catching trout in the backwaters and in Kanoes 
burn (where lively half-pounders lie below the bridge) 
till evening. At seven o’clock started to fish the five 
pools down again. In Pel-pool killed a sea-trout (the 
first of the season), a deep and beautifully-shaped fish 
sea-trout ( Salmo trutta ), surendal, june 29th. 
Female ; weight 21 lbs., length 17, girth 9§ inches. 
of lbs., roughly sketched above, and by 10 p.m. 
reached the lowest pool, Tellesbo, where I got a sixteen- 
pounder a few days before. This fish, by the way, never 
ran, but kept incessantly plunging and “ boring,” his 
body held vertical, and tail frequently breaking the 
surface—see p. 81 . I killed him from a high bank after 
“drifting” three hundred yards down-stream. 
To-night Tellesbo again yielded us a fish, a deep¬ 
running, sullen fighter which sought the strong water, 
but in due course had to succumb and fall back—weight, 
14 j lbs. Total for day, three fish, 332 lbs. 
