HUNTING GAME FISH

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 11

HUNTING GAME FISH

A' "BOOSTER" FOR NEW ZEALAND (From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, 20th January. Mr. E. P. ("Harry") Andreas, of Sydney, will shortly start on his annual fishing excursion to New Zealand. He has been doing it for twenty years, and has just been telling the "Daily Guardian" something about the glamour of it. Like Zane Grey and other distinguished fishers in the great waters, he is a splendid "booster" for New Zealand, and it is about time he was made a chief or something of the kind over there. Whilst, according to Mr. Andreas, the game fish are caught off the Bay of Islands, the best places for the trout are Lake Taupo and the Tongariro Biver. Beferring to the mako shark, which, he says, weighs Up to 8001b, he states that it closely resembles the blue pointer shark of Australian waters. When hooked it "breaches," continually— that is to say, it jumps out of the water. "You never know when yon have them beaten and more get away than you catch. Where there were two boats after the game fish twenty years ago there are now 22; so they are harder to get. And with the promised invasion of American fishermen the fishing will become increasingly difficult. Personally," he adds, "I liberate a swordfish as soon as I have caught him, if he is so hooked as to make freeing possible., A few fish satisfy me." Mr. Andreas should, therefore, be very popular with the game fish of New Zealand. They are game'enough to provide him with a good fight, and he is sportsman enough to "'shake hands" with them when the fight is over and tell them to go on their way rejoicing. "Then I go on some cruising," he says, "and later some shooting. I go after the first of the ducks and the first of the pheasants. Californian quail have also been introduced to the Dominion, and offer good sport."