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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 54, 27 November 1926, Page 21

Ylany of the Otago trout streams are in good order for fishing (reports an exchange), and, though big baskets stem to be exceptional, numbers of anglers are getting enough fish to provide good sport. Inexperienced men are also taking on angling. The owner of a car carries his family for a run into the country; whilst idling about lie comes across an angler, and, from watching with interest, he thinks he would like to hold the rod for a minute or two. That is a common beginning. Next week he has a license of his own and gear, and sallies forth with a fresh interest in life. _ The novice often becomes an enthusiast, and if so he is in for plenty of things to do. Just now some of the members of the Otago Anglers' Association have organised a working bee to cut and drag i out some of the weed that has become a nuisance in the Tomahawk Lagoon. I The weed in the lagoon lias its uses in | harbouring insects that serve as trout feed, and in providing the fish ' v '*h I shade, but it has grown beyond bounds, | and a raking out will makg the lagoon a better fishing water. . . Among the members of die British Parliament, Mr. WiuMon ('lv'relii'l Ims the greatest record for «nce<.lie.-> <lnrin-' the twelve months ended August I Reports of three filled 26'2 columns >' the offeial report. Next comes Mr Llovd George, with 211* columns, and Sir John Simon, with 186 columns.