ANGLING NOTES.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12975, 30 November 1907, Page 2

ANGLING NOTES.

•|HREB J>AIB ON THE ORARI(Bt "Iros BUT*".") I bivo just returned from a three day's Vbit to the Orari mouth, and i fiS that three distinct imp**"™ have returned -with mc; firstly, that the fishing in the Orari a not neariy j v -.mi a few years since, so cood as l*"* was * - i so gooa •« no use when secondly, that ny is 01 " . , the river is full of tebalt ' ™ d > thirdly, that I have new been so much troubled by mosquitoes before seem to explain then , so; the bf.^ f r om tho high bants™ c & tSc, and tho small ban as, are nut h places, and next their rci d gpt _ swarms, buzzing rouu u t 0 „ r tling softly on laAtU I the blanket over my ing tho chance of a stjiuy «w £, rsecil . 1 S_." d C , 3sB "««f"»■**;"ri «*.«—rt r g I Plat* had been forgotteninour out sit and r-aner was requisitione-u to sup!ytS My platf w« an advertisement of someone s»ap, the bov*s a review of a boot p-jlifth, and reSbering that our butter l*ad cojno rrom a village store where many jouths »moke much bad tobacco nisutly, while the butter lies ,™ _„J oou-nter. I hastily changed them and whenever a piece of buttered bread had to go down, I gave my earnest attention to tho boot polish. Breakfast over, wo went downstream, but at first only an odd rise or -so rewarded mc. On the beach near the mouth of tho river I found three men. and fivo fish, for which rhcy had toiled most of tho previous day and night. One of tho fish looked like a three-poundor. A member oi the party, among some other misleading information, told mc it weighed lib, but they gave mc the time to the >e6t of thoir knowledge, and to' my surprise it was not yet seven o'clock. After fishing for two hours or more, this was rather annoying, and "we went oack to camp and cocoa, picking up rour brace of fish on the way. Afterwards I fished tip-stream, the 3un shone brightly, the fish could be •ieen and stalked, and each, if properly approached, rose boldly. The boy, to my astonishment, threw on exceedingly good fly over any fish he tried, and we took fair toll of them to the extent of fifteen brace, weighing 221b. The sight of our horse—who had escaped from tho field of young grass in which she should have been well content, and forded several crossings—momentarily stopped by a loose wire, was not pleasing, but sho was caught, brought back to camp and fed. _ Wo fed also, and having been, up -since 3.30 or thereabouts, wo had a siesta. On awaking it was nearly dusk, and our tethered horse had vanished, to be seen no more until isho was sent back to us, when we heard that she had arrived at her home twenty miles away ,<■■ that, same night. The next morning was much the sanie as the preceding one, bu£ there was a lit'tlo moro wind from a new quarter, and for some reason the fish were not keen. They rose very short, and the only way in which I could got a fish was by raking out small ripploa across and down. Fishing in this way, four brace were in the bag at lunch timo, and I hod exhibited ten different flies to a big trout I had risen on the previous day, to my total discomfiture.. On the way to camp I passed a picnic party ot four, and a nice baby kicking on a ,rug. Tho ladies were-, paddling—in very pretty petticoats-r----and the tulrmen were fishing in a hope-for-the-best style. First, one of them would wado down the middle of a ripple, casting hard and often, straight fa front of him, and about twenty yards behind came his friend, fishing the same water carefully from the bank. That the flies of the bank fisher generally fell in what the ladies might have called a tight coil, did not seem to distress him in the least, and pcr(haps under the circumstances it did not really matter. In the pool in front , of our camp, a fisherman was hard nt i work, and much impressed by the enormous size of the basket on his back T got out the camera' to take a photo 1 of a fish being play-fd, but he also '. caught nothing, and at last my ' patience was exhausted, and I gave up the idea. The horse of the party on the beach still remained tied to their buggy—for tho third day in euocessioh—and they had no sport worth speakinc of. A high tide on Sunday evening nearly blocked the outlet to the sea, converting all the lower rapids into deep still water, which does not fish well, so on the last afternoon we went to tho Ohapi, where we managed to make up our total to fifty-t-hreo fish, weighing something over forty pounds. There are very few sea fish in the Orari, and until a good fresh has wid- - enod the mouth to allow of thoir running up. there- is not Ihuch chance of any really good fishing.