TROUT FISHING SEASON

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 624, 29 September 1909, Page 5

TROUT FISHING SEASON

.TO OPEN OH FRIDAY. ' Keen ' anglers -ire"'at' present -utilisiik' every: spare l ten iminiites ''in 'brushing .dway> the. dust of; the 'winter/ month*''- from s last, year's .'tackle,' rigidly - overhauling '. the tsame,and sorting out tlie ■ left-over- flies' in -anticipation of -the; opening v of the '.trout-fishing season, . which takcs-place ®n 'Friday; noxt. -^Thanks;to-' plentiful ramo,:aU'the stroamV near 'Wellington are carrying: n ?ood .body -of i watery.which -with-: out augmenting'.is expected to. last-well into November. - At the .present - time' ithe : water is considered to be ' too- full for the fly,; but should' be fonnd good for minnow-iishing: ■Though, the : streams dolose; to .the: town werfe not nearly, exhausted last season, the .Acclimatisation .Society has done.' a. good- deal; of stocking, apart ;from' which' the spawning. tea-, .son has,' beeh '.a : : particularly, favourable one. The-councils of.'the..society':has-issued.a -ukase against/jtlie. use .of .worms, and creepers /on the 'Mungoroa / and' Wainlii/strcamsi - but/the' Waikana'e.\«trbam ris. thrown ;ojpen to' the, worm" aud ■ creeper l -fisher/ / Somefly-fishers.' regard this indulgence, as going; a little' too far,,as the Waikanae ; is -a. verj\ .clear ;stream, •:and is, deemed' :by' some :.the one ideal ,' flyi .water ;in tho'district within 'reach- of-the-city -angler;Others' w'ho ; have ■ fished the Waikanae stream, aver that'-; it' is- ovenun with'; small . trout - to. such an that -'great -'demands-are made, on the food,',,ahd;fe*er decent-sized-.well-cbn-' ditioned fish are.-availablft.- to the; dngler,'- so," tho. task of- the;- thihning : out is ; given-, to-.the. worm' and' creeper user. - ; . : Wo iare 'in'-receipt of -tho -fifteenth .-"Anglers'" Guido. ftnd ;Prico ! List " of-Messrs. W. H. Tis-' dnll, Ltd., - of -Wellington and Ch'ristchurch. The angler'and sportsman-of,nil clnsscs- will find,: in this - handy compilation something about nearly everything, including the thing thoy want. . Besides descriptions ;and-prices of articles, the' " Anglers' Guido "■ coh'tains usual : hints, as..for- instance:—ln casting' power a stiff . rod 'is vastly superior .to a'whippy, oho. , It can : carry, and cast a. heavy .'line into' a ,wind : 6r sideways .'to it;; ,whon:'wjtii-a'.6upple'' rod, with ...its. necessary -light .line,'--it;-would' bos' difficult ~to get'u;'line out. at all. /In:long" casting ' it' is necessary ito, uso -considerable; :powei-.'in tho;fonvard cut and,' to;'arrtst 'this; motion-suddenly when the rod it at, an.angle, of-about ;-15 degrees. With, a'p.llable rod,, this. sudden 1 stop causes ' the', top: to bend Rapidly,and-, the resultant recoil '.snatches back tho ex-i tending line . A'iod.of groat flexibility ..-will, especially !if sliort, be -.constantly.: Olfei'ing ilie' fly. increased, facility for hanging -itself Up ih •Dtishesi'or 'other' obstaclos bohind." . ;r.