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WILD NORWAY. 
The general system of fishing is to begin by fly¬ 
casting all the pools that can be so commanded from 
bank, bed, boat, or stage; afterwards harling those 
pools and larger stretches that cannot be reached by 
casting. 
The three topmost pools are reached by a track 
through the woods. The whole of the rest of the 
river (the various pools lying conveniently contiguous) 
we descend by boat, alternately fishing and shooting 
the intervening rapids. This latter proceeding is not 
in itself lacking in excitement when, in a big water, the 
cockle-shell craft dances amid breakers and boulders, 
and often ships a lot of wave. The boats are sent 
back to their stations each morning by cart along the 
road. For two rods, the river may conveniently be 
divided thus :— 
Upper Water. 
Foss-Pool, casting only. 
Hodnet, „ 
ILeset, cast first, then harl. 
JLesvigen, „ „ 
Gjeloren, „ „ 
Gj^erhol, ,, ,, 
Stotte-kasten „ „ 
SvORET „ ,, 
Lower Water. 
Svoret, cast only. 
Brulandsberg, cast first, then 
harl. 
Tutelonen, cast or harl. 
Breiholmen, cast first, then 
harl. 
Nyn^es, cast first, then harl. 
Store Haugen „ „ 
Pr.este-Pul, harl. 
Bridge-Pool, „ 
Svoret, it will be seen, comes in both beats, and is, 
perhaps, the best pool on the river, the stream running 
beneath a lofty white gravel-escarpment on the far 
side. It must be cast only (wading) by the lower rod, 
the second man also casting it, but harling after, by 
which triple treatment Svoret at least receives full 
attention. 
