ANGLERS AND THE BIG FISH.
Mr. Horace Hutchinson, the wellknown writer on angling and golf, says that a trout that has been hooked and got away quickly will very soon be feeding again. One that has bad to fight hard before getting away may not rise for several days, and quite possibly may feed sulkily below the surface for the whole of the remainder of the season. "Persons unacquainted with the ways of fish and of riverside folk may ask how the doings of a trout are to he known so minutely that one may speak of them with so much confidence. The answer is that tho angler or tho river keeper, who knows the water by daily observation, is aware of all the more important fish in it, their stations for feeding, and so forth. If one of his old familiar friends is absent, even for a day or two, he begins to ask tho reason why. So it is that if a big trout changes his habits or his station the man who knows the river will soon find it out."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16372, 28 October 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)
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183ANGLERS AND THE BIG FISH. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16372, 28 October 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)
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