FISHING AT MAYOR ISLAND.
.' -..-"-.-,.. '■'*—-— t— —»•— —;. "■:"■. ■•■;..-■-! '..■'..''■■■'>■.,■ GOOD CATCHES OF HAPUKA. [BY ■■:- TELEGRAPH.—-OWN CORRESPONDENT.] ?; ' Tauranga,,, Saturday. > Sportsmen report good ", catches ;on tho : local fishing grounds ; during tho current. . week. Fishing off Mayor , Island, ; a party aboard the launch Hokemai caught 37 hapuka, a large trumpeter, and eight king;fisn, in about : three hours 'on Thursday, ■■ morning. ; Several /times they secured three hapuka' on'the' one line, and the biggest of these fish 'weighed a}>t»ut;;Bolb;' The trumpeter was a «fin% specimen of • 351b,' "■' '•:;/r;- ; .^'.--.:;: /i --v-. / : . >■ ; These: fish were; secured in very deep 5 water-.i- on th"& special•',. hapuka- ground, known to; the old Maoris, and only re-.. ' • cently ; located. : ;Tlie ■: area/is '; about two 5 miles off the island. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18298, 15 January 1923, Page 6
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