Show house bait balt for trout finst and stream mr withers gives a very a amusing mile ing a account of the capture of large trout at buffalo near denver on the south fork railroad there is in that vicinity a so called mouse which has the habit of 0 going into the water very freely and on this account we suppose the animal to be one c athe shrews Tro probably bably the common abr shrew 0 V N Yeo pa lustris which is t the he largest of the shrews aquatic in their habits it feeds upon a insects and also upon their arvie but to take up sir mr withers description ot of the capture of a big trout with a live mouse he ile says we were led to try the tile mouse from the fact that on cutting open a large trout we were very much astonished by finding a mouse in its stomach Eto mach A hook was pissed passed through the ekla of the neck and the leader was attached to a large chip in such a manner that the mouse could not get away from its finst 11 then rhen the chip with its live freight wa was a liberated in the creek seme distance above the bridga under which the big trout was known to secrete himself the chip went merrily dancing down the str stream am th the 0 meanwhile running backward and as far aa the limits of his raft wo would uld allow and things went swimmingly until until the bridge was reached hare we 1 saw aw a sudden commotion s which we knew know wag was caused by a big trout his ilia trout ship seemed to hit bit the chip with his bits tail tall for it hew flew into the air a foot or more above the surface of the water and be he swallowed the mouse tho the fisherman in cha charge rge c cf the line succeeded eucce eded after some difficulty in landing the trout which proved to be a five afterward mr withers learned that the live mouse was known to many of the tle fishermen as one of the most killing baits balls for the black spot ted trout and its uso use is very general in that part of colorado |