TROUT FISHING AT ROTORUA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13170, 7 May 1906, Page 5

TROUT FISHING AT ROTORUA.

A SUCCESSFUL SEASON. _' The trout fishing season in the Hot Lakes < district, which has just closed, has been < mora successful than any previous season, 1 the total number of fieh taken being (as ; stated in Saturday s Herald) 22,140, weighing 87,2321b/ This number, although far i in excess 'of that of last year, does ! not give the actual number, for many have i been taken by both Europeans and Maoris, which have not been repotted. It ie stated ; by Mr. lies, who kept the record, that it would be no exaggeration to say that the , weight of the fish would be fully 50 tons. The result of each month's "take" during the season just closed, will be seen by the following table: — Month. Fifth. %'jft 1 November 4147 15.944 , December , ..- ... 3304 13.214 January 3736 13.954 . ~ February ... ... 2507 10.432 • March ... •■■ 4002 16.118 April .- 4444 17.520 Total ... 22,140 87,323 Mr. Mackenzie, an enthusiastic angler, who has spent four months fishing in the various streams in the district, says that Lake Tarawera. was teeming with fish. At the mouth of a stream running into the lake one day quite recently he noticed a school of trout which extended for some distance into the lake. Asked as to how many fish there would be, Mr. Mackenzie said ho would not like to say, because any number lie might mention would possibly be doubted, as it was impossible to conceive of the quantity unless one saw the school. "And such trout," said Mr. Mackenzie. " Anglers in the Old Country would only want to know that such fish are here and they would take the first steamer leaving there for New Zealand. Lake Tarawera is without doubt going to bo the angler's paradise. For miles along its beach the fish may be se'.'n snorting in the water, and when they arc hooked they show just that amount of flight in them in which an angler delights. There is no comparison between the fish in Lake Tarawera and those in either Lakes Rotorua or Rotoiti, nor.yet the streams running into these lakes," said Mr. Mackenzie; "(be fish are a different shape, broader, thicker, and shorter, and it's. a pleasure to take them out of the water."