Show NILE FISH PUT UP REAL FIGHT fine sport afforded anglers anders 0 in african river A new sport has risen in africa more thrilling than the killing of dangerous wild beasts it Is the pursuit of the huge savage and incredibly swift fish elsh found fauni in the great rivers hundreds of miles from the sea sportsmen who have slain lions the dreaded cape burr buffaloes aloes elephants and rhinoceroses rhinoceros es say that the bag ging of these beasts does not compare with the excitement of figh fightlin tin a gigantic fah in these wild rivers the thrill of a lions charge li iq soon over one way or another but the thrill of fighting a huge leaping fish that can jump from tile water like a kangaroo rind and whose mouth Is lined line with something likin to sheet iron may last for hours some of the great african fishes have teeth like wolves and can hire bite or twist in two the he heaviest iron or cop per wire leaders they tear fish weighing two tuo or three pounds from the hook and often break strong strona hooks they can call breast the swiftest torrent as though it were a millpond africa seems to have moro more large savage animals than any other country in the world and the fish are no exception when the rivers go dry in fit spots the great fish congregate in deep pools they soon clean out all the smaller fish when a bait Is thrown ant into i the pool they will make the water bril boll 1 trying to seize the hook A small animal which enters the pool will immediately be torn to pieces for some of the african river fishe particularly ticul arly the terrible tiger ish fish are closely related to the man eating piranha which the late president theodore roosevelt described in his account of his journey to the river of doubt in the wilds of brazil though the brazilian fish Is not nearly so large as its african cousin it Is frenzied by the scent of blood and will tear even an ox to pieces if blood Is drawn from the creature the largest fish in the african rivers Is the gigantic nile porch perch which Is not a perch at all hut but a rep of the alie ocean bass family this gigantic fish has been k known nonn to weigh pounds it Is tremendously strong and active and delicious eating in the nile system are almost S SW SOO belong lag to the catfish and ineil more than M N species closely allied to the carp some ol of tho catfish run well ui up to six feet the tha tiger fish Is one of the most vorace urs is nh n h in the world equipped with will powerful po werrill jis aril and stained will teeth outside its bouth the tiger ish fish Is able to bite in two henvy heavy lenders of iron or copper wire and will often break the strongest three inch steel hooks new york world telegram |