FIELD AND STREAM.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 413, 23 January 1909, Page 12

FIELD AND STREAM.

- :^.-: sy l|st *eet's;rain his-improved:iocal:flsliirig-vit^.^^'^s/^d.eooa'tags/were' secured list rain is needed to wash away some././of/the: smaller--9 V ■;' • generally, speaking: the majority ;.: ; ; :W ;:near :hy/ resorts;aro'.iny.'fishable/, order;/.'' Sun: ;;.■■:,;;'^y ; at.:Wamui-o-iri'ata: in the lower reaches; bagwhichaveraged 2Jlb; right' , ; through. Mr..:J. Fleming, Who whipped ?he ;v: ; -,-;. same. Btream, was, very, successful/creeling 12' : : ; ;fish :;which; averaged,iyb.: reach.,'■; This* laac' s.lt, Wfl s .secured ; ;in -aboutXtwo ihours; the fish ■yyy ,/ commencing/to /take .about '•' 2•,p/m:'-A' fine ~::.:•;.; trout about.;3Jlb.; >as lost in-the: landiiig at: y :?(:■ * he ? nd °f a determined fight// Mr'; Nat Wil-/ y;;,loughbv;also;had:fine spori/at Wainui-His' ~.;:-■•;- bag of. U trputt(secured>in an'hour) aver- ..-;,■-• aged'about;llb^each.;;^ : : yy\, /;." - y :' : ' v ' I '■■} Small: fish/have .beon- the Orde'r^of ' : thines • ■.;;:.(.; inmost cases;from. this 's'el i:/;:l^sPM-^contly-,tlip-Messrs;;Howell- ; ha-d--Ebo'd' V, ; ,! sport there;; but last week Mr. L. Howell A. ; ;:? cll P se(3 hl3 ;proviousV"biggest".,by' ; laiidinc :; • a. seven-pounder on i minnow. ; Tho fish" was v ;.y!;;) n : 'excellent condition^and-fought-well.::; : v;/. X/:H ::Mr;:Fred:Harcourt; who^year's ?::;-.:fvery sucoossfutanglerfin,local:waters, has 1 ,: upturned from Aft'ica.: Ho.expressed* great ■v.:-iiurprise;at the manner' in '/which''our -trout ■y •:•■; -have-diminished -incize.- In Mr.- Harcourt's .;, ■~-.:; time i Jib. average in' the. Wainui-o-mata was eommon.but.now' that happy state 1 of things : :X' / ; ;,., a ™ osfcrank s with.the impossible, as 'artificial . ~.:.:•; lures' are ; the only' : baits allowable ; in 'that -'.'.'^■.'Etream.-.-.';-';-'"-''.•■.; ,'■..■'.■:•■'" ::"''/.- ."..' '.:■■;■■'■'.'•"

'.;-As:to:.Wainui-o-mata-. being a .restricted • stream,several anglerV.hav'e yot a lot4o : Bay.'■' on ,the,mat-ter.; : -One. in: partictilar.i who ,has : fished: there for/years; considers thatr the existing restrictions 'arorin.'ho.'way 'bene--ucial to tho.stre'am, ari'd,.:in';time",-will proba.bly spoil it;'; His pripcipal reason for, supposing this he's in', the. fact ■ that yeats' ago (when live baits ;wore'/;allowed) / large' -male' , trout;' which devour innumerable' small trout, wore frequently caught on: a wriggling worm, and follows this assertion up'bv stating that ,ipw,-if. any, : those "jacks"" have . been caught on. artificial: baits,, and. are allowed, unraolestod,;to;prey on their,smaller brethren.. ,/••For many seasons: past the festivo : grasshopper; which .puts in; an appearance about November,, has been waited for by. many :anglers,. as undoubtedly when on -the water ■theyare hard to beat. Imitations of various •sizes, andrcolouring are sold by dealers, but there is-nought ; in. that; line: yet which has' proved .deadly, till recently; ;A ! local dealer some: months.ago sent Homo grasshoppers to be copied in soft -rubber,'-a.noL tho imitations, on ; being tried, have found to be; great killers, and - nluch better, than anything we have .had locally in/that line previously. :; /Messrs;.; ..-&.' ! /A. /Holmes':, .and 'T. and C Young', local anglers, have loft for Tokaanu to-try their.luck.amongst.the big fish; ;: .- ;: Reports from Rotorua are not "encoiirag-..-ing,:;and/this season, although the<fish aro fairly .plentiful, they are ;not in' the, best' condition, and run /smaller /than: formerly;.