Trout in salmon rivers-In the mountain lakes and rivers- Faemund Sö-Jotunfjeldene-Thelemarken-Trout fish- Variety of types-Standard patterns used in Norway-Lars' views-Flies for the river-Size-Fly-tying-Authorities : NORWEGIAN FISHING, OLD AND NEW Records of early sport-Belton's "Two Summers in Norway" -The Namsen-Condemnation of the Laerdal River- Milford-Pessimistic views-Jones's "Guide to Norway," 1848-Lloyd's Scandinavian Adventures"-Growth of A RIVER OF NORWAY CHAPTER I THE RIVER GAULA "Child of the bright and stainless snow." -STUART, Lays of the Deer Forest. IT rises among the western outposts of the biggest snow-field in Europe, and runs a course of perhaps fifty miles to the head of the fjord. It drains an area of about 250 square miles, and like most rivers of Western Norway, is almost wholly dependent for its head of water on the summer melting of the winter's snows. Midway in its career it forms two great lakes, respectively ten and fifteen miles long, which serve the double purpose of equalising its flow, and of raising the temperature of the water through the exposure of a large surface to the air. Its lower course is broken by several falls or rapids, one of which, some twelve miles from the tidal water, finally bars the upward run of salmon. The lowest fall, fifty feet high, is A |