Large Brown Trout One of the heaviest trout taken in Lake Rotorua for many years was caught by Mr. B. Reid, of Auckland, when fly fishing oil' Hamurana on Friday. The fish was a brown trout weighing 141 b 20z.. and it took 35 minutes to land. An excellent specimen, it was 2ft. 7in. in length and 1 ft. 7in. in girth.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19881, 7 March 1939, Page 8
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