ANGLING.

Otago Witness, Issue 3292, 18 April 1917, Page 45

ANGLING.

By Jock Scott.

To be a perfect fisherman you require morjj excellencies than are usually to be found in suca a small space as is allotted to a man's carcase.— Pakkek Gilmouh. Headers are invited to contribute items of local fishing news for insertion in this column. For insertion in the ensuing issue they should reaoh Dunedin by Monday night's mail.

BANK NOTES.

Tomahawk Lagoon.—Fish are still Being got in this small piece of water. Mr J. Leclrie, on Good Frida,y, secured 11 fish, on Saturday 20, and on Monday 21; the average weight being £lb. All the fish were caught' on the fly. Concord Channel. —From inquiries made, the bags made from the Concord Channel are neither numerous nor heavy. ' The Waitati.—Rumour hath it that soma good baskets were made on this little stream within recent times'. The. chief reason for this is that there was a nice fresh in the stream. An important feature is that it shows that fish are still to bo taken from the Waitati The Opihi.— Mr L. A. Russell kindlysupplies me with some information with. regard to a recent trip he made to the Op ; hi in quest of trout. It was about a fortnight ago that Mr Russell was at the Opihi. and for a comparatively brief space he had some real good sport, capturing a fivepounder, a three and a quarter-pounder, and three other trout weighing ever 2lb each. These fish were caught on the artificial minnow. Th© river turned a bad colour after this, and fishing was at an end —than is, successful fishing. His catch was made within aibout half a mile of the junction of the Opihi and the Temuka Rivers—that is, above the junction. Just previous to this Mr Russell and a few local anglers had some good sport on the Temuka River, fishing at night'with the fly. The most effective flies were found to be the Royat Coachman and the Silver Doctor. When it became darker Hardy's Favourite and the Red-tipped Governor proved pretty deadly; Mr 'Russe]] was out again last week, and found the Temuka badly "weeded" and dirty. It was useless to attempt to fish it. On the previous occasion the batr of the party ran trod from 17 fish to 29 fish per dav.' the fish rannirwr about lib each. .The Wa'taki. —A<bout Easter time _thi( river was by no means in prood condition for fishinrr, and was considerably discoloured. The ouinnat were observed going lip stream, and, so far as I can hear, none were taken, though some, were hooked and got awav. As a matter of fact, during the run of the qninnat those fishing for trout hooked about half a dozen qninnat to every trout. So much for the argument I heard advanced last week that anvone fislvng for trout in the Waitak' would not be at all likely to hook a. salmon. It was one of those wild, ridiculous statements one sometimes hears, particularly from those who know nothing about the business. In this special instance, however, the speaker did know something about the matter, but if he was honest his knowledge must have been slight indeed, as results have nroved. One angler. I know for got three quinnat on his minnow, and all th- 7 ' trout be secured consisted' of one small one. That, seems to have been the experience at the Waitaki recently—l mean n,s to trout eatclvng. It is estimated that since the quinnni salmon put in an appearance at the Waitaki f ully 400 have been captured. I »m pleased to b« able to place on record the cnteh mide bv Mr H. Crust din-inn- the nnjrlimr season. It consists of 151 tronl 14 ouinnat salmon, weighing 2111 b. The heaviest trout was 141 b. and th" heaviest salmon 201 b. T understand that Mr G. W. M'Tntosh and Mr A. Harris, after fishing the Onihi very successfully, came south t 6 the WHtaki, but, like many others, did no good there.