NOTES ON TWO MORE SALMON-RIVERS. 
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bank-casting catches, the angling on Evanger is entirely 
boat-fishing, and the upper water, including Flaage 
pool and Seim-vand, is exclusively harling. Boats are 
placed on each pool, and the return journey in the 
small hours is made by drasin on the railway which 
runs alongside the river. The drasin is an ingeniously 
contrived trolly; but with four men aboard it, with 
all their rods, gear, and fish, there is not much room 
to spare, and one has to “ sit tight ” amidst revolving 
cranks and pinions, levers and shuttles, as the machine 
spins along at eight miles an hour. 
I will only mention one other pool—Gjetle by name, 
a fine sporting stretch with strong stream, though rather 
too big for casting. On each of our last two evenings, 
Gjetle offered us a chance. The first appeared to be a 
fish of 35 lbs.,or over, but soon parted company, probably 
never being properly hooked ; the second I killed on 
“ spoon”—a cock-fish of 21 lbs.—and thus wound up the 
least lucky season I have had with Norway salmon. 
We also killed, in Evanger, twenty-seven trout, 
weighing 32| lbs., besides a few char. On a former 
visit, I had killed a number of these fish in the Evanger - 
vand. The trout were, with occasional exceptions, in 
poor condition, as the following measurements show :— 
Trout of 3J libs., length 22 inches. 
91 90 
55 -'2 55 55 55 
91 181 
55 w 4 5 5 55. -*- 0 2 55 
This narrow, rock-bound valley was remarkably 
deficient in bird-life. There were neither ducks, divers, 
nor even mergansers, and we did not notice a single 
species that calls for record. But the gadfly appeared 
on June 13th, and the terrible clegg two days later. 
