WITH ROD AND LINE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 151, 7 April 1933, Page 2

WITH ROD AND LINE.

NOTES FOR ANGLERS. (By “Phantom.”) A _______ As may be expected with the fishing season nearing a close, the condition of trout in most waters is somewhat poorer, this being due to the approaching spawning season. However, those who are following the sport right to the last day will find in dry flies a small Royal Coachman, used in the afternoon and evening, still very useful. The Hardy’s Favourite dry fly, about a size 12, is also very handy. Among wet flies, a black knat or black teal, about size 12, used as a leader, and a fly like Love’s Lure as a dropper, is a good combination, especially the -latter, when “skated” across the surface of the stream. The Ashburton River is very low at present, lower, indeed, than it has been for years. Some local anglers were fishing Lake Clearwater recently in the evening and after dark, and found by fishing wet flies of the Perril of the. Peak type, and letting them sink well,’ that good results were obtained as far as bites went, but the majority of the fish landed were very “slahby” indeed. Lake trout spawn a great deal later than, those in the local river and the anglers concerned were of the opinion that the “slabbiness” of the trout was not altogether to he explained by the approach of the spawning season. Whether lack of food, or whether disease is an attendant factor, is not yet definitely known.