ANGLING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25829, 27 April 1945, Page 2

ANGLING NOTES

This week-end Will bring the 1944-1945 season to a close. Many anglers have already varnished their rods and put their gear away for the season. Many, on the other hand, will keep going to the last, in. the hope that they may fight it out with that big one they lost earlier in the season. Most rivers are carrying a lot of water. Those who expect to obtain tly fishing are advised to try Central Otago streams. Further south the Waiwera, Puerua, and Owaka are in fair order. The Pomahaka is high and slightly discoloured. The Wyndham This river has been carrying too much water lately for successful fly fishing. Messrs Marwick and Geddes are reported to have taken four fish recently of 16.11 b. These fish were probably taken on the minnow. Tho Shag A party of anglers who paid a visit to the Shag last week-end returned with 50 rabbits but no trout. ’’Anglers,” did you say? One of the party reports having met a lady angler, who was described In these columns recently as the Ideal angler. You remember her going right through last season without . catching a fish? She has been rewarded this season by catching a nice 61b trout. On this occasion the lady had another interesting story to tell. Being of an observant nature, she saw in the Shag River a nice lot of whitebait. Hurrying home for her whitebait net„ she was rewarded after a few hauls with a nice lot of this delicacy for breakfast. I wonder if the lady angler realised she was reporting something that may yet prove to be a record. I dovibt if anyone else has had a similar experience so late in the season. The Shag Hut The enterprising Otago Anglers’ Association carried its building programme a step further when, on Saturday last, a site was selected at Bush'-y on the track leading into the old' plantation below the bridge for the erection of a hut similar to the one at Waikouaiti. A working bee will be held soon, when the hut will be placed in position and tire usual facilities added. New Chum’s Luck Fishing the Clutha River where it leaves Lake Wanaka a party of experienced anglers met with poor results. A boy who was with them, however, landed two fish, 81b each. Asked how he caught them, wet or dry fly, he replied: “ I don’t know ”! Roxburgh Club A competition for the gold medal presented by the Acclimatisation Society was held on Lake Onslow. The winner, a returned soldier, D. Broad, landed four fish of sJlb. A report from Mr G. Cook, secretary of the Teviol Anglers’ Club, gives a return for four rods which fished Lake Onslow. For the season. 170 hours’ fishing produced a total of 325 fish up to lljlb. The fish, however, wer. mostly small; Mr Cook mentioned that the lljlb fish was the best seen for years. He is of the opinion that there are plenty of fish in tills water if one can strike suitable conditions.