Here's a Good Yarn.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1890, 23 April 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)

Here's a Good Yarn.

md It Is so Very Original That It Must

Be True.

A correspondent had been told that there were trout in Big Spring Creek " that long " (indicating something less than a yard), and .-o, he writes, having no fish-line, I twisted a formidable cable cf black linen thread, and for some hours I patiently waded the stream and tried to convince the fißh that my ponderous tackle was not so bad aa it looked ; still, they wouldn't even consider tha matter. I had my doubts as to there being any fish there after all, but I threw a grasshopper on the surface of the current, and &a I watched it drift down over a deep green pool under a ledge of rock an enormous trout rose majestically, much as I have seen porpoises roll, and gathered in the grasshopper, thereby putting an end to my doubts at once.

Well, tbinka I to myself, that's a little the biggest trout I ever saw or heard of, and I must certainly make another effort. So, with many misgivings, I set about twiating another line of white thread, when suddenly it occurred to me that if I could make him jump like that again, so coolly and easily, 1 would have time enough to put a rifle bullet mighty close to him before he could settle baok to the safety of deep waters. Shooting trout on the rise, too, would certainly be original if not exactly lawful. So I threw away the thread and hooks-, and, taking my rifle along, caught another grasshopper. This I threw just as I had thrown the other, and the moment it struck the water I sighted it and followed it along as it drifted over the same poo). As before, there was a gleam of scarlet and olive green, the hopper was gone, and before I knew it I had discharged the rifle into the mighty swirl. No result at first, and I (.bought what a fool I waa to suppose rbat I could shoot a jumping fish with a rifle, bat presently a huge pink belly made ir.s appearance, coming to tbe surface, and t here floated my fish , larger ever than he had appeared before. I rushed in on a shallow nffia and seized him aa he came down. Oh ! etna, a beauty and not a bruisa on him. He must have been entirely under water before the ballet got tb*xe, bat he had received each v shook that b« hardly moved after it. I had no mcac* ol weighing him, bat hia length toi twtntj tad fiTq-el^blU iaotoi*