TROUT-FISHING AT WAINUI-O-MATA, WELLINGTON.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 44, 31 October 1891, Page 528

TROUT-FISHING AT WAINUI-O-MATA, WELLINGTON.

The trout is gradually becoming more and more naturalized in the waters of New Zealand, and the time will not be long ere the disciple of Isaac Walton shall be able to whip the streams from one end of land to the other with results ■delightful to the angler’s soul. Around Wellington there are yearly increasing opportunities of this sort, and many

streams there are becoming noted as affording excellent sport of this nature. Perhaps the best and most popular of these is the Wainui-o-mata. On it three well-known residents of Wellington — Messrs Skerret, Smith, and Dyer — have a snug little whare, whither it is their custom to resort, and where, at the opening of each season they are wont to entertain the settlers along the valley. Recently this inaugural ceremony was repeated, and was graced by the presence of a party of some twenty ladies and gentlemen, who drove down in a brake to the scene of festivity from Wellington. There in the district schoolhouse they united with the assembled settlers to enjoy the good things prepared for them by their hosts, and passed the evening pleasantly away in the performance of a concert and the delights of dancing. Next day the party of visitors sallied forth to tempt their fortune in the waters, and on re assembling showed some very good specimens of trout, the average of the catch being about two pounds and a half. Our illustrations represent some of the incidents of the day’s sport, which concluded with the return of the visitors to Wellington in an eminently satisfied frame of mind.

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