DEEP SEA FISHING
SPORTSMAN ARRIVES. AUCKLAND, Oct. 9. Mr Alma Baker, a well-nowu angler, arrived by the’Mamma this morning from Sydney. “A bit of farming first,” said Mr Baker in indicating his pending intentions, and lie went cm to say that on a big station which he had bought near Waikato Heads be was experimenting with Gorriedale sheep.
On the topio of angling, the visitor spoke enthusiastically. He is planning a trip to the Bay of Islands. Mr Baker said that he had received a letter from Mr Zane 'Grey, who would be here in December. The well-known American angler had decided to give the deep-sea fishing in the vicinity of Mayor Island a thorough try-out, but it was also possible that Mr Grey would also pay a. visit to- the Northland deep-sea fishing grounds. Mr Baker mentioned the mystery fighting fish known as Ahuriri, which, according to the Maoris, haunted the vicinity of Spirits Bay and theieafbouts, in the far north, and of which no living specimen had yet been taken. “On on© of my previous fishing visits here I went five hundred miles in search of an Ahuriri,” said MiBaker, “but we never got a sight of one.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1928, Page 7
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