An Angler's Yarn.

Bush Advocate, Issue 355, 19 August 1890, Page 3

An Angler's Yarn.

; A' few /evenings ago ( BpjmeienthuSikstic ' .anglers, at „Kaiapoi> were' discussing , then ; experienced with, rod dhd line in luring #*c speckled beauties 'ft-oai..the.,Stewa ! rfe > ft gUjly and the TV % ayma,]£ariri, and : aftetf one sWt had" iold ,&$, W# &\ about tiSei^ pk vW.iWX*® >% Eaiapoi, man tot go one, better. He was; ' bVerhea'^d to, «M ,;t^. i_m onedayhe &$ bsenr£o&gffig tji^j rirer' without success 'Arid as gQ«*g to wind u^ Ms ikbklb r! \vnen a jp^gle' came on his line; ; At' ihat moment i he was walking lift a rotten: bank, part of which giving way disturbed a>- rat, which took to ' the water.' The fisher attributed the loss" of the fish. to his awkward 'sttfrnble, but l*e was quite amazed" to see a 201 b tront rise. and take in the rat.'. ]STo\v he had : tried . blue-tailed flies, flies , made i from toni 'tits' tails, blue' feathers' out of' th£ parrpkeet, and hooks tastefully decorated with silk, green, orange, aftft, -ros- Tne creeper -and. the spinning minnow and the bullay were all dead failures. It was one of those times, in fact, when fish are plentiful, but refuse all offers of bait. So the angler took out hifi pipe, scraped out the old ashes, and got his moleskin pouch out. ,Joy ! he" had. it. No time was lost m unwinding Ha line and affixing the pouch to a hook. Fact, as.ttue, as. he 1 "was there. A, cast was made,., land within five or ten minutes a -.playful' trout of at least thirty Tpourids was going off with the line. A little management soon hooked xum, for he proved \,o be a jack. If ho* played that fish a minute he •waiS on it for two solid hours before he got it to the landing net. It turned the scale at 15lb lOoz. Its stomach contained the rat and a f ev>r other etceteras. He wished he mi ght never go a-fisMng again if it wasa't as truo an gospel— Press