ANGLING.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CI, Issue 11884, 6 May 1899, Page 5

ANGLING.

Mr W. J: Alpe’s Winchester correspondent writes' as follows concerning trout filing in South CanterburyA bnet retrospect of the doings during the season just closed may perhaps prove .interesting to your angling friends. It must be mentioned that fly fishing has not been gene-, rally successful; intermittent floods bringing down cold water may perhaps have been the cause of this, but an old hand would say that there has been an absence of visitors who really know how to fash-, and others who, after a brief visit, without studying the waiters, have moved on to further fields, with luck best known to themselves. Langdon’s register (Wofeeley Hotel, Winchester), as stnctly kept, shows some nice, takes with fly .proper during daytime, perhaps Mr ''M’CuUochV twenty weighing 311 b, in the. Upper- Opihi, being tHo best for -selection. At the same tame, 30 or 40, averaging the WariM, were not of occasional occun-encc. Ihe feature of the season has, no doubt, been the extraordinary success of fishermen m the Lower Opihi, where fish of fine dimensions and goodly number were taken at night, with minnow (or otherwise), each individual angler being worthy of praase for the. patience and endurance .required for this class of fishing. i “The South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society’s' balance-sheet has been published, and shows a handsome balance buttled, up in fixed bank deposit. Some gold fish, up to 61b, have latterly been netted in the Opihi; they must have been paying a visit to the bank cellars to brighten up their scales. Keep the rivers and mouths- open, employ responsible men as rangers, treat dynamiters with capital punishment, give purchased fry a year’s spell in secured waters before liberation, and in time South Canterbury may re-establish its reputation as a fisherman's paradise. 1 ,■ . “Winchester doings, as represented m Langdon’s register, give 2361 fish, .weigh-in-o- 29421 h, the result.of the eSorts, ot viators and local fishermen. No record appears to be.kept at Temuka, and it is perhaps a pity that a register is not kept in the Fishermen’s Club-room for guidance and information of all .interested in fishing matters. ■ Of what has been done south of Timaru jup to the Wai-toki the writer has failed to secure data-.” . Mr P. Molloy, on April .9 and il, canght in the Avon nine fish, the two largest weighing 11b s|oz and 11b 2%0z respectively. . ;