FIELD AND STREAM.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 140, 7 March 1908, Page 13

FIELD AND STREAM.

\ «—/ (By Dry Fly ) • • ■ Fishing at Rotorua lately lias, been excep-' v •. ■ tionally .'good; and the ''.Chronicle " reports J--.V.'■pd P)dfield,. ,trollmg .in secured;,lß, nice itroutj'-tho;-average''weight'/,of ;;which:' was. 3J' • lb. - Anglers have ;been more; numerous dur-.. . ; . ing -last weekv, than was tho - ca-so;, for the ;;:V: ; i : previous;';fortnighti'j'iwith.;.ib^ ;/ quite a large quantity of trout ~ has • been ; • removed, from the lakes and streams around, Rotorua; vjAmong thosej who have been-suc- ;. mentioned ' the., < , - !Mr., M'Gartnoy, and .party, 15 fish;-heaviest, : : - :81b.:j: average, 31b. : . These were -caught, in • r . 'V-! l i!<Lak , et: : :R'otorua. ; 'vMesprs.Vt .and •■ ■ ■ ? , Squires,',:'2B . fish'; ~heaviest; .; 91b. ; average, ' 3JIb. Caught in Lake, Rotorua.: . Messrs. •j< • ~; ,r S hawjand McCartney,. 25 fish; heaviest, 71b.; ■ • ' 1 averago,' :' Caught:, in ,Lake Rotorua. "Power Bros.,'-i25 fish, average. : 3ilb. . Lako ■ Rotorua:-They also caught ,19. at .Hamurana, Lwhich . • Shaw/''22 , fish ;- on ■ - the• fly, averaging < 41b.' ; Jvi/Oii'...atsecond.' bccasion, - these '•gentlemen' />e-, cured: 26 fish ; ■ average weight, 3i}lb.< r , Mr. • Av B'ractebush, 14 fish, of .an avera&o weight 1 •* iof ; 341b.';..'Mr.'MSherwin and party, 14 iisli, • • on:tho:fly,> > aYerag;ng.,3ilb. ■ Mr. Clifton and : party, 19 fish.; heaviest, 61b.; average, 3i lb. ; ?Dr. Robson,; 5 fish on the fly, averagmg 31b.., Mr. Price. and. friend, 21 fish on /•. the.-fly,'averaging 31b. : This gentleman and : ■ .- . his friend also, caught 16 on.tl>e-second day, also on tho-fly; theso.averagcd 3Jlb. Messrs.. , Hattie and i MlMillan, 118 fish; average weight,' 3fclb.i. Mr. .and Mrs. Hodgson, 32 ■4 r, fish; ,sall on- the fly; 'average, weight, 3}lb.. Mr. and. Mrs. .Hodgson . were successful .1.-rf-i again r-later,. securing 10 nice trout, aggregating -371b. 1 Messrs.. Manson and Allan,! 5 : 31; fish, all.on tho fly; 'average weight, 3Jlb.i .: _••'•' Anglers may now whip the streams in this r,;' i-I district" I witlioiit' fear - ;, oF- casting: amongst 1 !' green slime-and wood, ■ for this week's rain-. ; : 'fallj 'has,' tbVa'.yery .'large"extent, cleared tlio ' t; weed; but;' v . -An .' angler who journeyed to ■ ' . I V,\.Waikanao ,last' i Saturday 1 ': has ••• been"-fishing ;. ' : ; there all this ;':|week, :. with' : great, success, ,/ , The 'fish': are staking freely -and'tho' limit of, v :20,is-easi]y reached;;^;: .The^largest;fish taken at' Waikanae; this '• week '-.was 'ono of-4}lb.. weight. '■ - V.CtVii exchange isays the man who shoots: his / fish ;linds no-favour: with tho Otago Accli:,.V' '. matisation .Society,",. Atithe last meeting it ■ --j 'iwas: reported *that' a • man who had- beon' guilty of this unsportsmanlike practico in .Otago hadbeen fined only a small sum. Tho - Society's agent, in reporting tho:case to the ' ' /Council, : r said . that'; the Magistrate had accepted tho vie'w of tho solicitor for, tho ■ de- , fendarit' and .expressed the opinion that after! a man had lietsn fishing all day/and got no- . ' - ; thing; it' was not' a - serious* offence to,shoot • a couple ofl fislr on his way,-home. ' Mem-bers-of the Council wero somqwhat indignant that'-tho ; Magistrate should have , taken up this attitude concerning a matter that was without doubt-a direct breach of tho law,- and it was resolved .to communicato with' the Minister for Justice, on the l subject.' •' > ■" A Southern excharigo records;..that at Tapanui recently, beforo Mr. Kenrick, S.M.,' D. M'Gill and Thomas ; Middlemiss ..worb oharged with using improper instruments for taking trout.—Mr. Inder, who, appeared -tb •defend,, submitted that tho information '.was : ; bad in that defendants wero charged with 1 ah v. • against; the. statute,;whilst it should hare'" against ; the regulations, ..After i y'.j 0 ;iiment ;,thb| information.: was l'dis- ■ -On , tho isamo occasion Thomas Rao; " • ri-inmn*- Vnderson, Charles, M'Farlane, Alfred ' • r \' v -' . and E., Vvcbb wero' charged with taking fish without a license, and with fishing contrary to tho regulations. Tho charge of fishing without- a liceiisb was dismissed oil the ground that tlicro v/as no evidence- beforo the • Court. ; On the second information tho cliargGs':'agriinst,"Webb , and M'Farlano were dismissed, His Worship said ho was satisfied that Rae, Meighan, .and Anderson wero • guilty, and t-liuy would be convicted and fined £2 each, with Court costs £3 95.. .