QUINNAT SALMON

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 156, 29 March 1926, Page 6

QUINNAT SALMON

BOCAL ANGLER’S CATCH Mr. J. S. Nicol, of Kilbirnie, an enthusiastic angler, who has been engaged in the sport in and around Wellington for manv vears, yesterday afternoon had quite a novel experience. While fishing just opposite Quinn’s Post, Trentham, in the lower reaches of the Waikitiki stream, a branch of the Hutt River, lie caught with a creeper with very light three-cast tackle a quinnat salmon nearly two feet in length and weighing just on eight pounds._ It was a male fish in splendid condition, and took some twenty minutes to land. This is the first quinnat salmon to be caught in ths vicinitv of the Hutt, and so far as is known it is the first to be caught in the North Island. Mr. Nicol attributes the presence of the fish in the river to the recent flood. _ In order that anglers may get an idea of the species landed, its head will be exhibited in the window of Messrs. Whitcombe and Caldwell’s fishing tackle and sports depot in Willis Street to-day. Quite a number of quinnat salmon have been liberated in the rivers in the South Island, and apparently the specimen caught yesterday had travelled up from the south The catch-is of particular interest to' anglers both near and far, on account of the fact that if quinnat salmon are able to thrive in waters anywhere in New Zealand there is every prospect of an exceedingly valuable industry being established.