OUR TROUT FISHING

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7446, 22 May 1911, Page 1

OUR TROUT FISHING

ENTHUSIASTIC VISITOR FROM ENGLAND. SPECIAL TO THE "TIMES*" ! * AUCKLAND. May ‘2O. Whether New Zealand .is 1 the i trout fisherman’s ■ paradise oar only just -an every day sort of, bunting ground for the angling sportsman depends very nmen of coutso on tbo sporteman, but the quality, and quantity of the fish hooked ooit of onr rivers and Jakes in the course of a season , are of themselves, a fairly good answer, to those people who occasionally pans censure on the New Zealand trout fishing. Another; fairly conclusive answer is to be found in the fact that a great many of the host , known aneters who come to the Dominion for-the fishing come again and again. Mr Frank Cole, the well-known English an frier, who. has rust come h Auckland after, fishing at Taupe and the neighbouring streams, says the fishing this season has been grand. • and some of the catches phenomenal. both as regards the number cf fish , and tiro sire. Where e l se in 1 the world will ■ vou -get 17)b trout?" he asks. "The fish for the greater part are good fighters, and of splendid quality,‘and as for the talk about deterioration :. from what they were .ten or fifteen years ago, sneaking for the Ton no and the river fish I could not imagine better trout than have been landed this'season. Tlie people who ear the New Zealand fishing is not what it ,iy renresnted really. know nothing about it. .Probably they’ have come out for a trip and nut in ' a few days’, fishing .at, Rptorna, on the strength of which, and a huge ignorance, they frill pronounce judgment, I assure-you it is amusing tp - some ~of them." Mr Cole has r a notion, although the season is iust finishing, of staying in this part of the world till the .neit season open*. , .r, ’ .