FIELD AND STREAM.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 467, 27 March 1909, Page 12

FIELD AND STREAM.

(Br Dot' Fit.)

Last week-end the local streams were very low,'and fishing, consequently, bad. 'Mr. Pritcliard secured a nice bag at Wainui-o-mata. In one of the fisli—a trout weighing about 31b—was found a smaller one, at least five inches long, partly digested. An enthusiast who tried a day on the Makara drew a blank. Grasshopper, minnow, and fly were tried without stirring a fish. Eels, about one pound each in weight, were noticed chasing the small inangas, which appeared to be there in largo numbers. South ICarori drew three ashlers on Sunday, .who caught 8, 2, and nothing respectively. ■They fished from the lower reaches to Hooper's boundary, and report having 6een several dead fish in the creek. This stream is full of weed, and quite unfishable. W. C. Platts, in the "Yorkshire Weekly" says: "A friend once told me that the following essay on the roach was handed in by a Sheffield tirchin, who evidently know all about it:—"Tke roatcli is a fish what wins lots of copper kettles when you can katch emiff of them. Fathor has won six, and he says he knows ,a trick what will win six mora if the juges don't find it out. Pasto is good for roatcn, but gentiles is better. You can make gentiles with a piece of raw meat and a blow-lly. Father got the butcher to make sum for liim last week, becos when he makes them at home the naybors complane about the drains smellin' orful and the perlice smelled the gentiles what the butcher was makin', and they persecuted him for having in his possession a piece of meat nnfit for human konsump•tion. 'When you are fishin' for a prize it is sinful to stick bullets and things into the fish you catch to make them heavier, becos ,you might be found out and get disqualified. Father says if you have thin carves the safest is to put two fish into each stockin' betoro you set off, becos they won't show through your trousers, and you can pertend to tie your garter and slip them into your basket when the juges arn t watchin'. There are two sorts of roatches, some of which are mail roatches and sum are femail roatches. Tho femail roatches are called henroatches, and the mail roatches are called cockroatches."