DEEP SEA FISHING

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 100, 22 January 1926, Page 8

DEEP SEA FISHING

ZANE GREY TO EXPLORE NEW WATERS

“Dominion” Special. Auckland, January 21. A fishing camp is to be established by Mr. Zane Grey and his party near Cape Brett, possibly at Deep Water Cove, and they will make their headquarters there for the next two oi three months. Mr. Frey and the party left this morning by the northern ex, press for Opua, as'they wish to see something of the country lying along the North Auckland Peninsula.

Russell will be the sportsmen’s headquarters. They do not propose to confine their operations to flie area immediately surrounding the Cape, but will go out as far as the launchmeu will take them, in the hope that they will be able to raise some of the bigger fish they believe are to be found there. They will later work down to Mercury Bay, and probably to Mayor Island, and have discussed plans for a survey of the grounds between the Bay of Islands and North Cape. Although this will necessitate the use of a larger boat than at present appears to be available, Mr. C. Alma Baker, who is accompanying Mr. Grey, has long held the theory that beyond the edge of the Pacific shelf where the bottom of the sea drops to an extreme depth (about fifteen miles off Cape Brett), many very large fish may be found, and provided suitable conditions are met with, the party will,- no doubt, make an attempt to provp the correctness of this. A large vessel, preferably a handy schooner, would make the task easier, as she could act as a mother ship to the small launches.

Mr. Grey is laying plans to return to Auckland about tlie beginning of May, so that he can see the screening of one of his novels. He proposes then to go to Taupo, where he will fish some of the trout streams in that region.