BIG GAME FISH.
LURE OF OVERSEAS ANGLERS. AUCKLAND, February 2. The big game fish of the North Island are still a potent lure to overseas anglers, and several more fishermen arrived in Auckland yesterday by the Union C ompany’s steamship Alarama. One of them is Wingcommander John Dunville, of Kedburi, County Down, who is managing director of the firm of Dunville and Co.. ■ .stillers, of Ireland. He is accompanied Ly Major B. Corbet (late Ist Life Guards), who has had some wonderful salmon fishing in Norway in the River Alten, north of Lofoten Islands. He has caught a 511 b» salmon on the fly. The best fishing in the Alten is at night during the brief Arctic summer, and all the best fish are taken on the fly. Another angling visitor is Lieutenantcommander Billyard Leake, of the Royal Navy, who has caught tarpon off the coast of Panama. This is his first experience of big game fishing in New Zealand. After a visit to Russell he proposes to visit Rotorua and Lake Taupo for trout fishing. It is a curious coincidence that the navy, the army, and Royal Air Force are represented amongst the angling visitors who arrived to-day.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3804, 8 February 1927, Page 7
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