ANGLING.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13906, 3 December 1910, Page 4

ANGLING.

Fishing for perch and tench con> moiiced on Thursday. One iisher journeyed to Little River, and baiting with bully and minnow, landed 16 perch, and 4. trout. Fishera using silveries for bait have been makirig some fair catches in th& Waimakariri, near White's bridfie." ■On Saturday evening one rod landed three good fish, on Sunday live, and on Thursday evening two. Some largo trout &re making their way up the Aparima river at present, says the local paper. Last Friday one was landed which turned the scale'at 21 Ib. "By what method it was landed we are not prepared to state," adds the paper. fcitill further reports of tho fishing in the Waitaki ar6 to hand, says a southern exchange, large baskets beingobtained and fish from 121b to lolb caught. One fisherman reports having seen an unusually large fish, which lie states might be any weight over 2011). Another fisher fishing in the same part Rot, as he thought, snagged, but it turned out to be a fish, w>hich got away. It is surmised that that | was tho same fish that had previously j baen seen. The whitebait are running stroll";, and by all accounts the fish ! are plentiful. The lower parts of tho Kakanui river gives good sport, good, baskets being obtained. Further up tho river is low, and the sport is not so good. Word has been received in town that the Opihi is in excellent fishing order, and good baskets are being obtained. Tho Halswell is in very bad condition at present, the canal being completely blocked. A start has been made cutting the weeds away, and also for a considerable distance up tho stream. The raupo in the upper roaches is also being cut away, and with so much flonting weed the river is practically uuiishable. • One enthusiast, who tried on Thursday evening, did not get a single fish, and the condition of the river was such that he brought all his outfit into town. He states that the river will not bo fishable for sonic time. It was rerorted at nine o'clock yesterday morning that the Waimakariri North, the Waimakariri South, the Rnkaia, tho Rangitata, and the Waitaki were clear and in order for fishing.