Mod and Gun.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 98, 22 October 1904, Page 14

Mod and Gun.

IBt Gavebag.3 [Contributions to this column, addressed "Gamebag," will be welcomed. They should be concise, and must be signed with the writerjs full name and address, not for publication, but as a guarantee of authenticity.] There have been no remarkable baskets reported from anywhere in the colony since the fishing season opened three weeks ago, but the sport has generally been good. The South Canterbury streams are particularly well stocked, and near the beginning of the season a party of four rods killed! 317 fish, none, how-

ever, of any size. Some fairly large fish have been taken in the Oamaru district from the opening of the season onwards. In addition to 40,000 fry already liberated this season, the Wellington Acclimatisation Society has allotted 82,0U0 brown trout fly and 20,000" rainbow trout fry for liberation in the Palmerston district. Some of the brown trout are from ova obtained from Canterbury, where the fish are larger than in the Manawatu. The Christchurch Acclimatisation Society prides itself on having disproved the assertion often made that the life of a rainbow trout is limited to foUr years. Therere are now in the society's ponds several rainhow trout five and even six years of age. Good bags of trout are being taken in the Dannevirke district, and 120 licenses have been issued. The New South Wales Fisheries BoarS ia endeavouring to equip a hatchery, at a cost of £1500, for the purpose of placing 100,000,000 fry in the various rivers of the State. The Auckland Acclimatisation Society has decided to ask the Government Tourist Agency, Messrs. T. Cook and Sons, and Messrs. Partridge and Co., to sell fishing licenses on behalf of the Society. One member said that there were a great many tourists who, calling at the tourist agencies, would be glad of the convenience of getting their licenses there. The other day Mr. Le Soeuf, Secretary of the West Australian Acclimatisation Society, who is travelling on behalf of the Westralian Government to study acclimatisation matters, was interviewed by Christohurch Truth. He expressed himself as being very much impressed .vith the work done by our Acclimatisation Societies as regards breeding of trout. For the past few years he has imported ova from New Zealand, which he has ob tamed from Dunedin, and he intends to take back a large consignment with him to Western Australia. "I have only so far seen the hatcheries at Masterton in this colony," said Mr. Le Soeuf, "but they are conducted on lines far ahead of any in Australia. Although at Masterton they have not got the means to carry out their operations as elaborately as could be wished, they have achieved most wonderful success, and deserve all credit. I learnt more there of hatching methods than ever before, and shall adopt many in Western Australia." In his country only the rainbow and the Loch Leven trout are placed in the rivers.