DEEP-SEA FISHING

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 145, 16 December 1933, Page 16

DEEP-SEA FISHING

There are the big fish and the small ones to feed them, men keen for sport, nnd all that is required are good, fast launches, proper bait and tackle to make the Taranaki coast good deep-sea fishing playgrounds. Men who fish to live and thosa- who, in their spare time, live to fish, were of this opinion when seen this week by a "Daily News" reporter. Given the right facilities, there, should be as good sport from along the Taranaki coast to Kawhia as obtains at Russell, Bay of Islands. Launches and gear are tho stumbling blocks. Mako shark, swordfish, and gfey nurse shark are plentiful around the 50-fathom line. A tiger shark of 7001b was caught at New Plymouth two years ago with no special equipment. Theso big fish are more numerous in the hot weather. This year summer conditions are earlier than usual, and the sportsman with the equipment and patience to look for his quarry would no doubt get a run for his money. The launches used at Russell, Hie centre of the deep-sea fishing, are Specially built for the purpose, being bigger and much faster than any at New Plymouth. If some wealthy man could be induced to make the trip, bringing his own launch and gear, it would settle the matter, and, in the opinion of those interviewed, would put Taranaki on the deep-sea fishing map.