TROUT FISHING.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1614, 4 December 1912, Page 8

TROUT FISHING.

HOW TO IMPROVE TEE FOOD " SUPPLY. (By .. 1 Christchurcli, December .'3/ Dr; B. Moorhouse, president of the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, returned, this morning from \ a trip to the Homeland. Speaking to a reporter, Mr. Moorhouse'said, while in Scotland ho had some very interesting, talks with Mr. P. D. Malloch; an authority on fishing matters, and also Mr. ■ Armistead, of, the, Solway fisheries, anothor. expert. As. a- result, of these talks he considered that it would bo a good thing for fishing in New Zealand if some supplies of insect food could be imported. A great cause of the trout fishing in this country deteriorating was undoubtedly lack of food, and ho thought that the importation of suitable insects would be quite practicable, and would, so to speak, renovate the whole sport. Mr; Jlalloch offered to endeavour to procure supplies of larvae of flies that formed the food supply of the famed Loch Leven trout, and but for the fact that it was the wrong season of the year to the get. the larvae, Dr. Moorhouse said he would have brought some out. These flies were entirely harmless. They only lived a day or so in their adult or fly state, and as they were not provided with mouths, they could hardly <fo any harm in the way of eating vegetation. The larvae jwere equally harmless, and lived under water, feeding upon decayed water plants, etc. It seemed, in fact, as though the only uso these insects were was as fish food. He thought that the importation of such innocent insects, together with small fish, such as the English minnow, might solve the problem of preserving our trout fishing streams and lakes.