ANGLERS DISAPPOINTED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 8, 2 October 1937, Page 6

ANGLERS DISAPPOINTED

Poor Catches on Op'ening Day RIVERS BEC0ME MUDDY Poor catches, and in the m&jority of cases none at all, were made by Hawke's Bay anglers who set out yesterday to see what the rivers had in store for them at the opening of the trout-fishing season. The sky was overcast and the weather, although fine, was not what fishermen would term ideal, when tney set out in the morning, but the rivers had been clearer during the preceding few days and hopes were high. But ■fate was against them. Early in the ^y the rivers became muddy, due presumably to a storm somewhere in the baek country, for there was no appcarance of rain in tne vicinity of Hastings or Napier. "We made no catches whatever, and I think my experience must have been fairly general, ' ' said one enthusiast this morning. "The rivers simply were not fishable. The Ngaruroro and Tukituki were the ones upon which most hopes were pinned, but these became so dirty that fishing was impossible." It seems unlikely, according to the views held by several anglers, that any fishing will have been done to-day, for the rivers are still muddy, but if fine weather continues the water ,anould be mueli clearer by to-morrow.