The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . nto a large glacier-fedlake full of char, andwhen these short-risingfish are on the feed thecreel may be filled. Theangler, however, who hasjourneyed as far as Nor-way in search of sportwill doubtless, eventhough he cannot per-haps afford the luxuryof salmon or sea trout,look for something largerthan these. High upin the mountains, then,are many lakes in whichtrout are both large and plentiful, and a little enquiry among the farmers,some of whom are keen sportsmen, will put thevisitor in the way of these, and he may th
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . nto a large glacier-fedlake full of char, andwhen these short-risingfish are on the feed thecreel may be filled. Theangler, however, who hasjourneyed as far as Nor-way in search of sportwill doubtless, eventhough he cannot per-haps afford the luxuryof salmon or sea trout,look for something largerthan these. High upin the mountains, then,are many lakes in whichtrout are both large and plentiful, and a little enquiry among the farmers,some of whom are keen sportsmen, will put thevisitor in the way of these, and he may then leada life of idyllic simplicity in some wooden farm-house among the mountains. Here he will betreated with every kindness by the good peopleof the place, and he may revel in such trout fish-ing as perhaps never entered into his wildestimaginings. The life will, it is true, not be one ofluxury, for his bed may be no more than a boxfilled with hay, while the food may consist solelyof flodbrod and trout of his catching ; but inmost cases he will, no doubt, have provided. OUR NORSKE GILLIES himself with the articles that Englishmen havecome to regard as table necessaries. There isprobably no boat on the lake, but he will havehad one carted up from the river down in thevalley, and in this he drifts at will day afterday, catching beautiful and well - conditionedfish that run from -5- lb. to 2 lb. or even 3 evenings he will perchance lay aside hisfly-rod and take a turn at trolling, catchingthereby some of the monsters of the lake. Aftera while he will tire of this slaughter of unsophis-ticated fish and he will seek a change in the pretty trout stream thatruns into the lake—just such another rockystream as the Devon-shire Dart. Up thecourse of this he maypush his way for miles,catching trout that leapand show sport accord-ing to their size at everyfew yards. There maybe days on which he isaccompanied by the far-mers son, who fishes bymeans of a codline anda hook decorate
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