TROUT FISHING-IN MARLBOROUGH

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22337, 26 February 1938, Page 11

TROUT FISHING-IN MARLBOROUGH

VISITS BY CANTERBURY

ANGLERS

RESORTS INCREASE IN POPULARITY

fTHE PRESS Special Service.!

SEDDON, February 24.

With the opening of the Lewis Pass road, Canterbury fishermen are fast finding their way into the Nelson and Marlborough districts. Many fishermen have been noticed this season round Lakes Rotoroa and Rotoiti, in the Nelson Province. These lakes are the source of the Gowan and Buller rivers.

Lake Rotorua, 11 miles long, contains plenty of trout, but it is only the patient and cunning angler who can hook them. The trout in these lakes are big, lazy, and well fed. They are indifferent to all kinds of trout fly that are stroked across their #noses. A local resident stated that at the bottom of the lake there was an abundance of shellfish, similar to the pipi, and that when the trout were opened they were full of shellfish.

At Lake Rotoiti, which is seven miles long, no small trout are ever caught, and it appears that it is only the survivors of the fittest which live in this secluded river. When the trout are caught they show a great deal of fight. At the outlet of this lake, which flows into the Buller river, the fishing is fairly good, and is well patronised by Nebon men. One man who caught a fish at this place examined its contents and found it to have been living on the weta insect. By using this insect he was able to hook several good fish.