FIGHTING TROUT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22243, 18 October 1935, Page 12

FIGHTING TROUT

LONDON VISITOR'S PRAISE DOMINION'S FINE ASSET [from our <r vn correspondent] PUTARURU. Thursday Surprise at the size and fighting strength of rainbow trout in the streams of the Putaruru district was expressed by a member of the staff of St. Mary's Hospital, London, Dr. Fish, who, accompanied by his wife, spent several days in the district this week. Dr. Fish attended the British Medical Association conference in Melbourne and had been delayed in Auckland owing to the failure of the Niagara to Bail from Sydney. , . . Compared with the conditions in England, where one had to travel about 100 miles from London and pay large sums for fishing on private waters to catch trout ranging up to three-qunrters of a pound, New Zealand was endowed with a remarkable asset in Dr. Fish's opinion. The largest fish taken by Dr. Fish was a 21b. trout, the biggest fish he had ever landed with the exception of a tiger shark in Sydney Harbour. Dr. Fish and Mrs. Fish have left to visit the Waitomo Caves and will sail from Auckland by tho Mariposa.

RESTOCKING OF BIVERS MILLIONS OF FRY LIBERATED [by telegraph—OWN CORRESPONDENT] WHAKATANE, Thunday The operations of trout hatcheries in the Rotorua, Taupo and Bay of Plenty districts will conclude durmg the present month and the final liberation of fry will take place early in November. It is expected that the total liberations for the whole district will ho in tlio vicinity of 5,000,000 fry, of which approximately 3,000,000 will be liberated in the Rotorua and Bay of Plenty areas and the remainder in the Taupo district. A total of 1,750,000 fry has already been liberated in tho Rotorua lakes, end the Bay of Plenty rivers and streams.