FISHING FOR KINGFISH.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1648, 15 January 1913, Page 6

FISHING FOR KINGFISH.

.;:' ;>'-CAPITAL SPORT.;' v-:.^-/ (By Tolfiri'apli.—Special :Oorrc6i»onaont.)', ' • ",■'''',- Auckland, January H'.V' "It is tho most eSciting sport I hAvd ever had, and I cannot speak too highly, of it," said Mr. W. H. Hazard to o. reporter .this morning.: He .was talking, about taking kingfish with a rodjup.at, ' the Bay of Islands, where he ihas ju6t . •! spent a holiday. -Other sportsmen hav« found out doing the.same thing,-'and thera is ft small,but growing band of deep-*eft fishers'.' whoso annual leave is, spent-: as\: ti matter'.'of course,' among the kingfifli. Fishing for tho hefty kingfish at any time is exciting enough,' but the ufo of tho rod makes has capturo strenuously exciting. : . ..'; Mr. Hazard spoke most enthus'iastic'ak ,-'; ly of the sport which his party hftd «xWriciiced atthebav. There were a mim* ber of other Auoklanders up there, ond ; they had all decided that it .Would ha , - very difficult to find anything more ex- , citi'njr. ,' An English sportsman who has , •■•■; fished ill most waters where bis fish ato '.. to be found considers that tho sport is , finer, than tho famous. tariion fishing, ' ; Off the coast of California, vjhere a sea- j son will cost the tourist anything up rt - iiooo-v ■■-'-.■'!.,'':■'..,■;. ■' ~ '". : '• Ono great rcoomnicnnation of the kinirfishinß in Nevr Zealand is that it can ha had at practically no ara a number of; spots on theEa«t Coay • whero the fish abound—"acres of thorn, ' is jif. Hazard's desoription.