TROUT SWALLOWS DUCK
SPORTSMEN ROBBED BY BIG FISH Tasmania's tourist attractions Have been added to by a duck-devouring trout. Sportsmen will, therefore, now be able to capture fish and fowl on the one hook—that is, if the carnivorous trout can be out-distanced. Rear-Admiral Evans, commander of Australia’s Navy, is prepared to swear on his sea-chest that the story is true, and not just a fish story. Evans of the Broke has been at Interlaken, fishing and shooting. He was on the lake, with Surgeon-Lieu-tenant Doakes, Mr. J. H. Walters, and Water Bailiff Challenger, when a bold and enterprising fish was met. The party was in a motor-boat, and was chasing a wounded duck, when to their amazement, the bird was seized by a trout, estimated to be 201 b in weight. Like a flash the fish made off with ; the bird in its jaws. Full out, the
motor-boat gave chase. But the tn>ut was a wily fish and it enjoyed the chase. It would allow the motor-boat to get within two feet, then dive. The last time the party saw the fisli the duck was half-way down its throat. The chase lasted half an hour, and the party believes that the fish swallowed the duck.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 944, 10 April 1930, Page 15
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205TROUT SWALLOWS DUCK Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 944, 10 April 1930, Page 15
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