ANGLING

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1923, Page 7

ANGLING

SALMON FOR WANGANUI

RIVER

DIRTY RIVERS PREVENT

fishing!

Atlantic salmon, one of the best sporting fish, have now become fai.'ly Jvell established in several areas in New Zealand, and. Mr. Ayson, of the Marino Department, is shortly to liberate the nrst output of the hatcheries near -Taumavunui this season in tlie upper leaches or the Wanganui River. He left Wei. Ungton to-day for that purpose. The local fishing season opened on Ist October, but since that, date the weather has frequently been bad, and the rivers have as a consequent bee:i cloudy, so that there has. been little fishing, and few reports have been received ot catches. The indications are that the season will be most successful when the anglers do get to work, for the country bei_ of fish, which the rangers have noticed in the course of their re;*nt liberations of fry and yearlings. A report has been received by the Acclimatisation Society in Wellington of a iishing excursion to the Wairarapa i-akc, about which more will probably he heard shortly. The allegation is that a party went netting flounders at tho ierry end, and when accosted on their return ■by a policeman were found in. possession of twenty-eight trout, weighing 60 pounds and an eieht-poFid yuiunat salmon. According tS the law these should have been returned to the water immediately the nets were hauled! in. lne policeman at Mavtinborouah is new to the district, but has been specially watching the interests of lie' Government and Acclimatisation Socieiv. It is now a considerable nunber of "years since such a case as this id al!e"ed to have been detected, it being a difficult anatter to keep watch on every netting \party that goes tc the lake and then "disappears in a. cloud of dust". per motor car.

'•The fishermen are ramping to eri fishing," stated Mr. C. I. Dasent to a 'Post' reporter this morning, "and! when they do get away there will be some very fine fishing, but in the meantime we have had to stop puttins out fry into the rivers owing to their condition, and when we cannot put out fry fishermen cannot fish. Though we have not had a great deal of rain hero there has been a lot inland, especially; on the ranges." - No very large catches of trout have" been reported in Auckland co far this season- (says the " Herald "). One local angler -who fished in the Wainui-o-mata btream reports that his largest catch weighed 4|lb. Auckland anglers are, for the most part, waiting for the opening oa Ist November of th o season at Rotorua. The _ best fishing at Taupo is usually obtained after Christmas, and at Tonga* nro toward the end of the season.