FIELD AND STREAM.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 27, 26 October 1907, Page 9

FIELD AND STREAM.

• . ;■ -rtr.") ..- The Pomohaka'.and' ICaihuku Hi vers in the fialclutha'districtsaro-yieltling well this season.- Fishing''list' Saturday 111 the Kaihuku 'Mr.' Campbell Thompson creeled 15, and for .a couple of days..on.'the Pomohaka Mr. A. Thow. speured fish caught were in poor condition. The AVairau and Opawa Rivers, in the Marlborough owing to their muddy styte, ; ;have.>n6t;..ifroduccd many baskets this season... Excellenfc.-spo'rt has, 'however, been had in the., Omaha River, tho catches including quite a 1 "number of iish from 3' to 91bs-in weight. '' A' while fishing iii the Omaka River last: Monday had a peculiar experieneef He. hooked a trout of about -libs weight, and ,in its first rim, into a deep 4iole, started A . iinVb'er: pf eels, one of which got. foul hooked 'on thq minnow. Tho'eel, after '.-squirming /'and- wriggling for -some time: successfully freed'the trout, but the eel. did not meet with the samo fate. !

■ A Christcharch angler, commenting oil tht very'.;satisfactory.basket's' of fish that arc ,bojng obtained in the Canterbury rivers, sayi that, ih his opinion', tho season in the Rakais .should not he opened?until November:' At present the fish are hungry, and in- comparatively ' poor • condition,-and, the whitebait iiot .having, come up the .rivers', they are looking for anything, that they can ejt. As a consequence, and owing to their early weakness, ii is the.easiest .thing' imaginable* to land them.

' From an anglers' point of view (says tht Nelson "Evening Mail") the opening month of the recent trout-fishing season has' been among the most 1 barren' on record in the Nelson district. The continued cold : ' and changeable we;\theiy has. 'retarded tho? presence of fisli food in, the streams, especially insects, and thus •the trout have not-yet como into condition to seek their prey in tho strong' "ripples.". ! Meanwhile, the repeated' freshes _ and ' flogds have left the streams very high aiid swift., Tho result is that the. angler seeks his quarry in vain in his usual October hauntii, and neither fly, live; bait, npr :aiticfical minnow is as yet : effective t-o secure large bags. As a matter of fact, tho trout' are .lying in the deeper pools 1 and silont reaches,'several feet bMow tho surface to avoid the current, and feeding on the bottom of-.itho strc.ims, seldom rising. There will be' little 'good fly fishing till nest month*"