DEEP-SEA FISHING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23021, 26 April 1938, Page 7

DEEP-SEA FISHING

AMERICAN ENTHUSIASTS ARRIVAL BY FRANCONIA [bt telegraph—OWN" correspondent] WELLINGTON. MondayLosing no time, two keen deep-sea anglers among the cruise ship iranconia's passengers Jeft Wellington by aeroplane yesterday on a hurried expedition to Otehei Bay, Zano Grey's former fishing camp at the Bay of Islands, to try their luck with New Zealand's swordfish and mako sharks before the Cunard liner leaves Auckland on Thursday in continuation of her world cruise. These enthusiastic i anglers are Mr. and Mrs. Irving j iSetcher, of Miami. Florida. Mr. Netcher said that although he had taken swordfish off the Bahamas he had always been anxious to try New Zealand waters, of which he had heard much. He was particularly anxious to catch a black marlin, ono of the finest sporting fish that swims and rare in other seas. He had tried his hand at catching most of the recognised varieties of sporting big-gamn fish. Mr. Netcher sprtke enthusiastically of tarpon fishing off the Gulf of Mexico. "The tarpon is one of the best fighting fish in the sea," he said. "It is just like a terrific silver herring. When you hook it it. starts right in to jump and it jumps about eight feet into the air and keeps on jumping until it spite your hook out if it's lucky, or else it falls on your line and breaks you." Before her marriage to Mr. Netcher his wife was well known throughout Europe and America as Miss Rosie Dolly, one of the famous ©oily Sisters, international stage stars. Hungarian by birth her real name was Raszicka and her sister's not Jenny, but Jcnszicka. Mrs. ( Netcher is as keen a~ big-gams angler as her husband, and said the sport was not too strenuous for her. She had landed bic fish,, off Florida and the Bahamas.