Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1910 — RIDES A BUCKING PORPOISE. [ARTICLE]

RIDES A BUCKING PORPOISE.

Too Big to Land by Hook and Line, Sea Denizen Gives Fisherman Startling Experience. New York. —Captain Charles Penny, of Flanders, L. 1., is probably the first man who has successfully ridden a bucking porpoise. The pOrpolse was a big bull, head of a herd of twenty,, which had Interfered with the fishing of Penny and his associates. They decided to shoot him and did wound him. Then they found they had no boathook to land their prize. “Walt a minute, boys; I’m going to have that fellow," said Penny. Without removing clothis or hat, he leaped overboard* landed astride of the broad back of the fish, twisted his feet around his body and his arms around the neck and hung on. The fish found a new spark of life when this unlooked for enemy landed on his upper deck. He gave a snort and dived for the bottbm of Peconic bay. This did not frighten Penny, for he Is about as much atjiome In the water as the porpoise, and, as to speed, he had attempted some of that on land in running an automobile. He knew, too, that the fish would have to come to the surface very quickly to blow, for he was three-quarters dead before the excursion started. So he held oh. ’ When the porpoise did come up, a minute or so later, Penny was a long way from his boat, but still astride the porpoise. So he reached around the porpoise’s head with one arm and rammed a big fish hook z lnto Its nose, the fish made another feeble effort to get away, but it was no use. “Hey! you fellows! Come over here and get your fish!” shouted Pdnny to his fellow-fishermen. The combined strength of the men

could not lift the fish to the boat, so Mr. Porp was towed to Riverhead, where it took seven meh to pull him out on the dock. The fish measured feet and weighed more than five hundred pounds. His body is nearly as large as a flour barrel.