FIELD AND STREAM.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 401, 9 January 1909, Page 12

FIELD AND STREAM.

. (By Dry Flt.) Fishing locally has not been of the bed lately, the streams in most cases being to< low. The rain which fell on AVednesdaj

may do .goqd, but much heavier down pom is : neede'd'to put tilings in proper order. Messrs. Stanford and Spenco, of Stratford,' tts» wfc, toport that' tho fishing up their, way;is very good at present. . Messrs/Higgins and Cdoper, of Welling*, ton, who 6panfc-.some.timo up north recently, express themselves as pI?MM. with tho fishing obtained generally) : but. .were, very disap. pointed in tho sport on Lake Rotorua. Their best bag 3 : Were • Secured on 'the Wai rakei. 'J '

"Twenty poundefs " Vin local -waters an like moas-r-very scarce. ''But one local-.anglei is .doing his best to tepijit a monster..-trout, estimated, to: go 201b.,'.m tho Hutt. His description of.'tho; where this; big fellow ", frequents is very" brief—'.near Silverstream." , " Dry Ply ; hopes that there will not be too_ great a rush r of enthusiasts bent on .assassination' 'to that part' of. w Hutt River. '

An erstwhilo successful Yorkshire ,' anglei s'peitf a .week at Wainui-o-nwta recently, tryinp:- : Hi|i." : for . that period ' \ria* 20,. and: alnongst the most suecessful 'flies : used ..weVe*' 'Whitley's Folly and March . Brown. He 'reports.' that tho .evening rise: was-, poorer, tlian' ever;' and the fishing in consequenco v&ybad.-;--' • Notwithstanding' the faot .that;' Visiting anglers>to Mungarta are meeting success,! a resident angler informed'. " Dry Fly " that.'ljes. - has.;-secured .eight. to.. twelve .fish; almost -every-: evening oii: which' he has gone out this rseason. : •

: Messrs. Pritflhard; Patterson, and Schmidt had good sport in the lower reaches of Wainui recently.'■ i -. ■ Mr. Reynolds is reported to bave seinred a 61b. trout in tho Waiiuii-Mflnta, above the dam. •' The' fly on.whioh;this beauty- was lured is not stated. -J" V: "■ '.- •

• Last Saturday Mr. .No'wton had good sport in the Hntt River just below the bridge, He secpred four, trdufronfly; averaging . each jn about half an hour. Messrs. Howell ■' Bros.;: of Parapraumn, r were'very, successful on a recent.'tnp'to.the,.' . Waikatiao stream. Both secured ..the limit, and the largest fish scaled 21b. \v.V'('Mr. Birch/ a very successful angler, triciJ. his luck "at Makara last Monday . evening Hr crdescd seven. ; tront of.-a total weight ol f -.. 141b. "> ' . .- While on a short'visit.to;Wellington, Mn, v W: A. Boves, of .Eketahuna, reportod-good ' ,sport -in his district. So far this, season h«, > has landed hotweon four and five .hundred ' fish 'from tho Makfckahl and Mangataifioks .■■ - rivers, principally on fly.; - Fishermen have th 6 : reputation of "telling the most .fabulous tales over ; heard, and •though it; is': easy,:to'. see: why they, .have , ■ secured this ■ enviable reputation,■■ it. is, difficult to conceive why : every.'talci - they; ten : . is treated 'with pitying admiration, ?ne c ' doubts are cast upon the -teller's veracity;. . •; There is one- tale,' the truth' of which is vouched for (air' undertaking: of somo.'magnitude) by a nearby exchange. > A fisher was , ifishing in tho Iluamahuhga, -on .'Saturday, , with a minnow. A' lively;- 4lb. 'gulped \ it, and a 'strong."tusslfi ensued, from which the fish- emerged victorious, 'carrying with , 'him as trophies the minnow and gut. Thr fisher fished ''again' in'the -same -spot sttbM duontly. with a. new -mittndw, and bo fore .long got another • bite. Ihu -time -' ho was mor6 sucoossfulj and landed his -fish,', and discovered .his lost minnow and gut, and the new minnow, all in tho fish's-mouth.'' Surely fish canhave. no - feelings, or .if .they ; .haVo it .takes a good , ; ;. deal to hurt them.- ■ -Fishing- at 1 tho month of the .Ranritata River on New. Year's, Eve, Mr. o..Nicholas landed from , the surf; a 'beautiful 18Jib. sea run trout. It was caught on tr.p mmnow, = and-was-in splendid, condition. The ; veteran. ' ; short' states .that tho mouth of the. Rangi-.,' : %hing order Ifcyeax,,;, ! of trout aro a \«i?ble w. nlftk& the fresh wator roaches..