TROUT IN TAKAPUNA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13875, 8 October 1908, Page 7

TROUT IN TAKAPUNA.

• EXCELLENT SPORT PROMISED. " Auckland anglers .who are unable to afford the time to go to the distant lakes : ~ of the interior of the North Island will; learn with pleasure; that there is every, prospect of obtaining . daring the coming, season excellent trout fishing close to the > city, ■/ ' ■ Some • years ago, the Auckland Acclimatisation Society liberated a number of V ; rainbow trout -in Lake Takapuna. ;• Ilia . fish did remarkably well, attd increased • j rapidly in size. But, although the waters" of Takapuna evidently suited them, it wag found that, they did not increase in numbers, owing to the absence of any streams ■ running into the lake affording Buitabla spawning grounds. Then the great de- , velopment of fishing at Rotorua, and tha success which attended the society's operations' in stocking that lake and ■the"'ad-*'" : jacent lakes . with rainbow trout-, as well . - as other lakes further south, diverted attention from Lake Takapuna. A few years , ago, however, several residents of the dis- :. ' trict ' suggested .that , the" society, .should''"' periodically stock Takapuna with fish ol^J-Vsr; iauie'd from the society's hatcheries near •; Okoroire. This it was agreed to do, and two years ago a considerable number of yearling trout were put into the lake, and• ; . a similar process was followed* last The result was satisfactory.' M A.,,few..., months back the society was informed by people who lived in the . locality that the introduced trout were very much in evi- - dence, as fish in good condition were to bo " v I regularly observed. The upshot .of these observations was that local angling'club' was formed, principally through the active- * , agency of • Dr. Guinness, -of Devonpprt, - ■ The inaugural meeting 'took- place on Sep- : > r , tember 30.• Mr,-. Brett : .was■ elected president. - The. subscription:,to. the club wage fixed at 5s per- annum, and each member, a,greed'to take out. a full season's fishing , license from the Auckland Acclimatisation .Socjifety. The clubproposes down spawning races in- the -lake,- and to obtain both yearling fish and fry from the local; , v . (society, with the idea , of establishing a good supply Of fish in the "lake. The fry will be - platted in the ponds till fit fat liberation. ' „ .. ... • 1 ' Mr. Choeseman, the secretary of the ■ ;-'. Auckland Acclimatisation.>. .Society, in--< ' , formed . a ■ Herald representative yostoiv.". day that 'he had * beard.- tbafc.*tlio- bres*>*.« • poets for the coining season were excellent, . and that .tho members of' the .club word / looking forward to good "sport. ■ V " . Lake Takapuna is big enough 'to supply,:< fishing to-a.-very fair number of angler*;" • •{% if periodically restocked, „ S ' (] " ■!( ,l ,'' - •" • • c-; "r -Vt ✓ <- fh I. * -;*-w' i 5 • i V. • -r\r t V* n&gs&vfA -i'I f -£iiliskfCV