SPORT IN SOUTH OTAGO

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19066, 11 January 1924, Page 12

SPORT IN SOUTH OTAGO

NUMEROUS ATTRACTIONS. South Otago offers great attractions to those who are bent on sport either with the rod or gun. The Molyneux River is well stocked with trout, and though the sport is not so good now as it was some years ago, fairly good baskets can still be secured. The Puerua, Kaihiku. Waiwera, Waipahi, Owaka, and Gatlins streams and the Pomabaka River are amongst the best fishing streams in Otago, and are visited by large numbers of anglers. The beaches of Port Molyneux, Gatlins, Tahakopa, and further south are ideal places for thosa who wish to indulge in net fishing or catching flounders. Deep sea fishing is also at hand for those who desire it, a good many groper being found at Port Molyneux. At Roaring Bay, which is not for from the Nuggets lighthouse, good sport can be obtained in the shape of crayfishing. For those who prefer sport with the gun there are unlimited supplies of geese on the Kaitangata and Tuakitoto lakes, while ducks and pukak.'s are numerous in the various swamps and streams. tin the eastern slopes of the Blue Mountains there are thousands of fallow deer. This stalking area is within easy reach from the Clutha side, and those who are competent to express an opinion state that good heads are assured. The bush districts arc not so largely inhabited by bird life as they were many years ago. Kakas have disappeared entirely, and while there aro still a few pigeons to be found, their numbers have diminished very considerably during the last few years. Away back in the upper roaches of the Gatlins district there are still a number of wild pigs, and on the outskirts of the bush in the same locality some wild cattle are yet to be found. Rabbits, of course, are still to be. had in abundance, though it is thought that they are by no means as numerous as they were previously. Opossums have, increased largely in numbers in the Gatlins bush in recent years, and some, very good cheques have been made by trappers.