TROUT AT TAUPO.
best fishing; to he found. AUCKLAND SOCIETY’S AVOIvK. Thb excellent reputation of Lake Tiiuna amongst votaries 01 the rod ami )i ao ‘is by no means likely to siidV." as n result of the present season's iishiai'. Tins foot wa* made plain to an Anekl.ua! “Herald” fepresenlal ivo by Cap Ia in T. Ryan, of Tan no, who is on a visit to Auckland. iistiinif in Lake Taupo tins year,” said Captain Ryan, “has been exceptionally good. The fish, on the whole, have been about 1 -V1 f> !o l;{lb heavier than in the past, which is a very reassuring sign that there, has heoii no deterioration, so far, in i ! u lake. Very few, indeed scarcely any. poor fish have been caught. The early part of the season was disappointing from an angler’s point of view, owing to the extraordinary lowness of i in* 1 lake level—it was sft below what it ! generally is—which evidently had some ' 6Hoot in* keeping fish out of the river,a. i On the first downpour of rain, however ' fishing improved wonderfully,; s - .l ! the latter end of the season some pheiioininally large baskets were taken.” Amongst I hose who made big catches Captain Ryan mentioned, tho following ;—The Hon. Percy Thcllrisen, an English visitor, who comes to I the Dominion for the fishing, caught 570 trout in 13 days, the average weight being 10.)Ih. Mr J. Anderson and the Messrs Cox (New South Wales) also had splendid catches, whilst Captain Shilson must have caught considerably over seven tons of fish during the season, Colonel Moore over three tons, and Mr A. C. .Johnson, of Te Kuiti, over half a ton in a fortnight, his fish averaging 111 b ill weight. i ; “I have been rather surprised,” continued Captain Ryan, “to read some of the newspaper correspondence of late regarding the Auckland Acclimatisation Society’s share in stocking Lake Taupo. I must say there does not seem to be much truth in some of the statements made. As a matter of fact tho first rainbow' trout were put into Lake Taupo by the Hawke’s Hay Society—so,ooo for a start. In 1903, I made representations to tho Auckland Society, aiid: they sent some fish up. complying also with a second application from mb’ at a Intel date. In Sept 1005 I liberated 50,000. fish which the Auckland Society sent up, and also 25,000 from the Hawke’s Bay Society, which the latter bought from the Auckland Society, and sent up for stocking tho lake. In 1900 tho Auckland Society sent up -15,000 more fish, and also about 80,000 ova, which I successfully hatched out at Taupo, and liberated in the various rivers round the lake. To show the, interest the Auckland Society have, taken they made all the arrangements with the Rotorua Motor Coaching Company and Mr J. Crow ( her, wdio voluntarily undertook the transit of this consignment from Rotorua, 'to Taupo. They met the train bn its arrival in tho evening, and travelled all night with the fish and ova, reaching Taupo at six a.in. I'lext day. I took charge of them ilhd delivered them into tho rivers round the lake. Thus, it will hb keen that the Auckland Acclimatisation Society has been mainly responsible'for tho stocking, of Lake Taupo with trout,’ , Continuing, Captain Ryan saifFthat about 20 years ligp tho Hawke’s Bay Acclimatisation "Society stocked ' Bake Taupo with brpwVi trout, which, j increased very , 'Eipklly, and are"'still very plentiful. This season they wore caught as high as 161 b in weight. Brown trout fishing,, however, had. practically fallen into .disuse, owing to it being nearly all night fishing, and visitors consequently preferring to devote their ~^pcrgies > to catching the wily ralnhp.w.'j trout in the daytime. , ): ’ |( “All the oversea, anglers who have visited Lake Taupe this season intend returning - ,” said ~Captain Ryan,, “as they say thereno such fishing to bo obtained in any other part of tho world. They onijihasise, however, tho fact that something will have, to bo done immediately to prevent the .overstocking of the l ike, and subsequent deterioration of the fish,- ns has been the case at Lake Rotorua. Tty* to the present tbo fisli are doing very well in Lake Taupo, as will he- 1 seen by • tho average increase in weight this season. No extraordinarily, big fish have been caught, like those of two years ago. but. the average has boon much better, greater numbers of fish from 1211) to 151 h being taken.”
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 107, 27 June 1911, Page 7
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