BIG GAME FISHING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 460, 29 December 1930, Page 6

BIG GAME FISHING

Mr white-wickham's visit. - EXTENT OF FISHING GROUNDS. Among the deep-sea anglers who regularly visit New Zealand there is none more enthusiastic thau Mr H. WhiteWickham, of London, who arrived at Auckland by the Rangitiki last Wednesday for the big-game fishing season at Deepwater Cove, Russell. Mr WhiteWickham has fished at Cape Breet regularly for nine yea s and, in his own ’’ords,, he i s eager to be out again after swordfish and inako. "I am quite sure that the extent of the deep-sea fishing grounds in New Zealand waters has not yet been discovered.” Mr White-Wickham said when he was told that recently Commander C. E. Hotham and Lieutenant Westmacott. of H.M.S. Laburnum, had caught a mako weighing 3301 b. off Flat Rock, in the Hauraki Gulf. “Mako and swordfish have been caught at the Great Barrier, as well as other places along the coast from Whangaroa to Mayor Island, and I have no doubt that fishing camps could be established at a lumber of pl ice.*:. However, for deep sea fishing a base is vitally necessary and the number of bases naturally depends on the number of anglers who will patronise them.” Since leaving New Zealand last March Mr '’’’hite-Wickham has been fishing in England and on the Continent. For some unaccountable reason there had been no runs of salmon in the English rivers last summer, he said, and he had consequently been unable to fish from his own country place in Devonshire. However, he had visited Austria and had enjoyed three weeks’ trout fishing. The Austrian trout were not as large as the Taupo rainbow but were excellent fighters. Air White-Wickham possesses a large cigarette case which is probably unique. On it are mounted the smail trophies presented by the Bay of IsSnds Swordfish and Mako Shane Club to anglers successful in catching game fish. There are several small fish in silver, a record of some of Mr WhiteWickham’s most notable catches, and three in gold, commemorating the world records which he has held. Mr White-Wickham will probably remain at Deepwater Cove until Afarch.