TROUT FISHING IN CANTERBURY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4740, 14 December 1886, Page 4

TROUT FISHING IN CANTERBURY.

Thk trout fishing this season promises to be very good if the dry weather does not deprive the fiah in beds of rivers of their necessary element. Dr Moorehouse and Mr Flint made a trip to the higher waters of the Opihi last Saturday and in one evening's tiahing in the Gorge of that river landed nine fish, scaling 611bs. The doctor and two frieuda the day before took nine fish weighing 451bs in the Terauka and Opihi, and some other gentlemen in the aame streams and the VVuihi had much larger takes numerically, though the fish were of smaller size and rising well to the fly. These large trout do not appear as a rule to take kindly to the fly. The baits used by the first two gentlemen in question were bully and Devon minnow. Mr Aspinall, in the lower Waihi, had some good Bport, and among his basket was one tish weighing lllbs. There is also some capital fishing in the upper waters of the Selwyn, where the trout are celebrated for their fighting "apacity. A well-known Ohristchurch angler had a big fish on his line there for all but two hours and a half before he was sufficiently played to permit of the landing-net being used. Some of the southern rivers — the Pareora and Otaioa, near Timaru, for instance— are going dry, and it is feared the loss of fish in these streams will be very considerable. Some 205 licenses to fish have been issued this season.