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eventually one finds a moderately level stretch, though 
trout may take freely enough, they are hardly worth 
the catching—poor little fingerlings of eight or nine 
inches at best. Sport must ever be gauged by quality 
before quantity, and no hecatombs of such small fry 
can be reckoned a fair equivalent for the pains and 
perils of the North Sea passage. This is the second 
preliminary drawback—the trout run small. It is only 
here and there one finds a river that yields the right 
sort—those deep-sided, golden fellows that run to a 
pound or two,.and upwards; and these are the places 
that are nameless. 
The regular salmon-rivers, it goes without saying, 
are reserved and forbidden ground to the casual angler. 
These, moreover, are not, as a rule, good trouting 
waters. A vast volume of crystal water, speeding fast 
and level over a gravelly bed, has little attraction for 
Salmo fario, albeit such few as it contains are often 
real monsters of six, eight, or ten pounds weight. 
There are many minor streams, and others, say those 
of glacial origin, which, though rarely visited by Salmo 
solar , are yet reserved by their owners to be let at a 
rental. The rivers alluded to abound in their season 
(that is, in July, August, and September) with sea- 
trout and bull-trout, some of the largest hardly inferior 
in weight to the salmon himself—take, for example, 
the rivers of the Nordfjord and the watershed of the 
Justedals-braeer, with many more. Such streams, add¬ 
ing the off-chance of a salmon, together with brown- 
trout fishing of the first class, deserve, and at home 
would command, rents of many dollars. Small wonder 
the Norseman markets such rights to best advantage. 
