STUDY IN EXTREMES

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 55, 8 March 1929, Page 10

STUDY IN EXTREMES

BIGGEST AND SMALLEST

MAKOS

On Lord and Lady Hillingdou's first day out on the fishing grounds oft' Cape Brett (writes a Russell correspondent) each angler was rewarded by lauding a mako. After taking up their quarters on Urupukapuka Island they proceeded to Bird Rook in the launch Lorna Doone, and had no difficulty in catchiug sufficient kawhai for the day's fishing. Lord and Lady Hillingdon were both much interested in seeing the acres and acres of fish with thousands of birds hovering round.

Lady Hillingdon was successful in landing a fine mako, which gave a splendid display of its sporting qualities. It was her first experience of the thrills of deepsea angling. She hopes to encounter a battle with a swordfish, before leaving for England. The mako weighed 1641b:

By a strange coincidence, Lord Hillingdon, is now in the running as a competitor for Dr. Horton's trophy, to be awarded to the angler who successfully lands the smallest mako for the season. Colonel C. A. K. Johnson, of England, landed, only a few weeks ago, the smallest mako caught up till then on rod and line. Its weight was only 111b. Lord Hillingdon's catch, on 2nd' March, when, brought into Otahai Bay to be weighed, would not register more than eleven pounds. It is a case of 50-50. Lord Grimthorpe, of Leeds, England, still holds tho world's record for successfully lauding the heaviest mako, 6301b, caught in January of last year off Cape Brett. It took, nearly two hours to land.