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MY FIRST EXE FISH.

AN EXCITING TIME. My first Exe fish gave me quite an exciting time. He took a small Jock Scott under a steep bank, crowned by a thick hedge over which I had been casting. After playing him for ten minutes or so I began to wonder how I was going to land him, as I was alone, and could not conceivably gaff him down under the hedge and bank. It seemed best to slide inelegantly into the water, which was waist iesp and very cold. But once there, things were no better, for even unhampered by a fifteen-foot rod, a li ne and a salmon at the end of it, I do not think I could I could have got back up the bank again. The other side of the river , showed a blind and alluring aspect, and a delicately sloping meadow bank. I looked at it longingly ; played the fish till he was half dead with exhaustion and I with coid, and at last in desperation began to walk across the river. The water rose to my chest, and then I was in midstream and swimming about with the salmon. A few strokes with one hand (I clutched on to the rod with the other) and my feet touched bottom again, but the stream was strong and I was taken some little distance down before I contrived to get ashore. I had swallowed a lot of rather dirty water, but the salmon was still on, and five minutes later I gaffed him —a nice 15-tb. fish. I have killed other salmon, but never one that gave me quite such an exciting time. There is lots of fun to be had, if only you know how to get it.— "Blackwoods's Magazine."

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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 428, 6 January 1912, Page 7

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MY FIRST EXE FISH. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 428, 6 January 1912, Page 7

MY FIRST EXE FISH. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 428, 6 January 1912, Page 7

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