HOW TO ANGLE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10111, 5 October 1910, Page 5

HOW TO ANGLE.

—o A FISHERMAN'S FIRST EXPLOIT.

One of the freshest of this season's fish stories concerns a wellknown Masterton man. Ho has only taken up angling this season, and as the season only opened on Saturday his achievements are the more noteworthy. A close study of voluminous text-books on "How to Angle," has bei.>n combined with assiduous practice in the art of line throwing, at mystical hours on the'. lawn by the Park Lake. On Saturday lie and another old disciple of Izaa'k Walton journeyed out to the Mangatarere creek to whip that fruitful (or "fishful") stream. "With a business gleam in his eye,, our' new-chum angler whipped the poor stream violently (as a result of over-practice developing unwonted muscle) that a tiny brown trout rose in protest, and seized the tempting fly. With a terrific swoop of the rod the- poor young fish was sent skywards—indeed so' high, that the older artist said it was invisible for several seconds. The sequel was still more unorthodox. Scorning to land his first fish witli so little "play," he gently laid his catch' back on the bosom of the creek, and most adroitly landed tlie exhausted object with the net. He was- greatly dismayed when his brother angler quietly mentioned that netting trout was botli unsportsmanlike and illegal. However, these points were waived, and after an exciting time among the ripples, the pair arrived home about eight p.m.. But so excited had the young angler become over his titanic etruggle with his great catch, that he forgot certain valuable, belongings taken out to the scene of action, and by the time lie had recovered them and returned to town the hour was late—and (so rumour says) the young small fish was large—so 'large fts not to be identifiable with its proportions when it was thrown into lipace at the line-end.