LAKE FISHING

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20092, 22 November 1930, Page 14

LAKE FISHING

PROSPECTS FOR CHRISTMAS. Since the season opened lake iishing has been littlo more than average in the quality and quantity of fish caught. The reason for small bags lias been unsuitable weather conditions, but anglers are looking forward to some excellent fishing during December and January, which are regarded as tlio best two months of the season.

Last week fishing at Lake Pearson was very fair, but anglers were not helped by the fact that, although the bridge over Broken river has been completed, the approaches have not yet been attended to. "You need an aeroplane to get to the bridge," said one angler yesterday. The lake is low, but the fish are in excellent condition. Lake Lyndon is productive also, both in quality and quantity. At Lake Coleridge '"the fish are not worth pulling out," to use the words of another fisherman who was there last week. Nor '-westers, although welcome to the power-house, arc anathema to anglers. Lake Pearson is the nearest lake to Christchureli upon which boats are allowed, and it has been excellent for fly fishing for many years. Anglers consider that when thu approaches to the bridge are completed this will compensate for tho long distance* that has to be traverccd before the lake iB reached from the Citv.

IJuite a number of huts have now been built at Lake Pearson, demonstrating the rapid encroachment of the motor-car into the back-countr-'.

Reports from other lakes are meagre, but it is ftated that conditions there are verj- similar to those at the lakes merit ionetf.