PISCATORIAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1812, 13 August 1886, Page 23

PISCATORIAL.

A DUKE'S EXPLOITS.

I have been at all sports all my life. Salmon and trout I have killed in England ; in the Avon, Christ Church, salmon, in the Test, trout only. I have fished the Wye, the Esk for salmon, the Minnow for trout, and many other rivers, the names of which I forgot for tha moment. In Scotland I have fished the Spey, the Lochy, the Spean, the Roy, &c. In Ireland the Blackwater, the Bride, the Lee, and other rivers. In Canada, on the edge of Labrador, the Natasquhan.

In Lower Canada and New Brunswick the Ristigouche, the Matapediac, and the Apsulquitch. The best twentj -one consecutive days' salmon fishing I ever had was in September (I forget whether it was in 1882 or 1883, but I can ascertain,) I killed 158 fish, averaging about 14 pounds in the twenty-one days, an average of seven and one-half fish per diem. The largest number in one day was twelve, and on another day eleven fish, and they were very pleasantly distributed over tho time.

I was alone ; the friends who were coming for half the time unfortunately could not come. The largest fish I ever killed was 26 pounds, have killed a good many between that weight and 20 pouncta. In Great Britain and Ireland I think a 15-pound fish gives more sport than the larger ones. In Canada 23 pound or 25 pound fish will run about and jump clean out of the water, like a sea trout or grilse, perhaps seven or eight times while you have him on. — Duke of Beaufort, in Fishing Gazette.