Field sports of the north of Europe; by Lloyd L

Author:Lloyd, L[leywlyn], 1792-1876. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Hunting
Publisher: London, H. Colburn and R. Bentley
Published: 1830-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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are only three others on the Klar, out sixty miles, before that river rs with the Wenem. Above them 'ds of fifty miles, the stream, if not

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dead, is sluggish, and nothing in the shape of a ripple is to be seen on the water. Near to Uie small hamlet of SysselMck, however, the rapids again commenced; and thence to the northward, there is little but a succession of them for miles together. Here fish are very abundant, and the wigling excellent.

On one occasion, during the summer-season, I visited this part of the Klar; and though, owing to a re(%nt flood, the water was not in a very fa-Tourable state, my sport was very tolerable. One particular day, and with indiff«%nt flies, I killed f<Mty-two brace of trout and grayling, weighing together near seventy poimds. Grayling, however, formed by far the larger portion of my spoil; none of them exceeded two pounds in weight, though I hooked and nearly killed one of double that size. The best trout I took weighed five pounds, though there were doubtless very much larger in the river. There was a difficulty, however, in procuring small fish; and in consequence I had. faardly an opportunity of using my bait-tackle, by which, as it is well known, the best fish may generally be taken.

Pike were of a considerable size in this part of tiie river. I killed one with my rod, weighing sixteen pounds; and another was taken by a peasant on a trimmer, at the time I was in the country, of twenty-six pounds in weight.

Though there was no one near S^em suffi-

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dently acquainted with the management of a boat to induce me to trust myself on the rapids thereabout, yet, in the part of the country of which I am now speaking, people were to be found who were not only very daring, but very expert, in the management of thdr little skifis. With these, which were provided with a pair of oars, a light pole, and a stone, to whidi two or three fathoms of line were attached to a^ve as an anchor, they hesitated not, when on fishing excursions, to navigate the most dangerous rapids.

This was an immense advantage, as it enabled a person to fish almost every single pool in the river. Generally speaking, there was only one man in a boat; in which case, it was really curious to obs^re the adroitness with which he managed his fragile bark. Sometimes he might be se«i throwing the fly with one hand, whUst with the other, in which he held the pole, he was either steadying the boat in the current, or gradually moving her (the anchor, or rather stone, of course dragging after) down or across the stream. When he wished, however^ altogether to change his position, his anchor was up and ofi boud in a few seconds, and he then either punted his skiiF with the pole, or made use of the latter as a paddle, towards her new destination.

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