Trout-fishing.
Mr Robert Couperwaite, of Otaria, killed in Waipahi River last week a splendid brown trout 1311b.
Owing to the dredging operations going on in the Pomahaka, it appears as if all the fish were
leaving that river and going into the clear waters of the Waipahi, as on fine warm days shoals of large fish can be seen from the railway in almost every pool. Close to the junction of the two rivers an angler killed last Friday, in 'two hours, eight fish weighing 401b. A Kaitangata angler says that the Koau branch of the Molyneux is -literally swarming with big trout. Almost every fine evening five or six heavy fish are taken with the rod, while it is no uncommon thing to see as many as 50 or CO large fish in one shoal, chasing the shoals of smelts that come up the river from the sea at this time of the year.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1777, 12 December 1885, Page 19
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Trout-fishing.
Otago Witness, Issue 1777, 12 December 1885, Page 19
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