THE FISHING SEASON.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14883, 24 January 1914, Page 7

THE FISHING SEASON.

SPORT DURING THE WEEK. (By R.A.8.) One of tho best fishing resorts, as far as numbers and size of fish are concerned, during the past few days, has been Lake Lyndon, where some excellent catches of "Rainbow" trout are being taken on "Pollock's Poachers," and Borne of the larger varieties of Lake flies. Recent "b.'.gs are three fish scaling respectively 7*lb, 81b, and 91b, and seven trout, smallest slb, heaviest 9slb. Several emaller catches are reported, and it is noticeable that a very lame P r «P«rtion of the fish scale between 61b and 71b. Apparently large flies are the only items of food the fish will look at. The water-race at Sprfngfield has been fished very successfully by residents, one of whom recently grassed about two dozen fine trout, twenty of them scaling between three-quarters of a pound and one and a half pounds. Ihe Hawkins is also yielding good baskets. The Rakaia seems to have quite regainf -ii lts * orm - -A- f ew days since an angler killed a dozen trout (smallest 101b) in one and a half hours. So heavy was this catch, that it took two anglers two trips to tho river to carry the fish up to the huts. They were killed, I understand, on a "Greenback Soleskin" minnow. The Selwyn, in the vicinity of Ellesmere, is producing some particularly fine baskets of trout. Mr P." G. Withers is credited with the capture of a 6J--pounder, on fly—a size which must be somewhere near a record for this part of the river. Flies most in demand are large "Silver Sedges" and "Coachmen" for evening and night fishing, and emaller sizes of the'same patterns for the daytime.

In conversation with a local angler just returned from a fishing trip to the upper waters of the Opihi. I learned that there were immense numbers of fish in phe rivor, and that the only fly they would tak<» at all freely was a small "GreenwelPs Glory." His basket included twelve fish weighing from three-quarters of a pound to three pounds each. Several times he had two fish on at once, on one or two occasions these being of fairly largo eize.