FISHING AT TAUPO.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 301, 6 December 1923, Page 2

FISHING AT TAUPO.

TRO LT 1A GOOD COADITION. (By Ralph H. Ward.) Sportsmen will be gratified to hear that the condition of the trout at Taupo this season is proving to he excellent, thus fulfilling the expectations that nere aroused by the marked improvement noted last jseason. The I p j -rtion of “slabs” to good fish is now smalier than has been the case for ' probably seven or eight years,jand in the opinion of many old res.dents the ■ fish now are prcmjudly as large as! they were in the halcyon days of ten or twelve years Lack. So far fiy fishermen have this season had small catches, the fish not yet being in the streams in any great numbers, and owing to the abundance of food the fish do not take so greedily as was the case three or four seasons back. But smaller baskets are amply compensated for bv the improved fish. The average weight of fish caught trolling iti the lake so far this season is estimated conservatively at eight pounds. During the past week fish have been caught weighing respectively sixteen pounds, fifteen pounds, thirteen and a half pounds, and ones ranging firom ton rounds upwards are at least as common as seven pounders were four years ,a go. A party camped recently in the Western Bay report securing splendid fish trolling at Whanrmnni and in the '•minitv of the Wnihaha fishing camp. With the nmroach of the holiday season flv fishermen pan look forward to good sport when the fine lake fish commence to enter the streams.