POOR FISHING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 40, 10 November 1937, Page 4

POOR FISHING

"Mystery" oi Disappearanct of Rainbow Trout HASTINGS EXPERIENCE "Last. season was a bad oue, but this season so far has been even worse," said a well-known HasLnge augler, this morning when eommentmg upon the fishing" season in and around Hastings,. He intimated that there was fadrly general disappointment ainong diseiples of Isaac Walton in ^ this district, and hinted at the possibility ,of a, change bemg made in the policy o* the Hawke :s Bay* , Acclimatisation So* city in regard to- the -type of trout liberated in ihe rivers* " At one time we enjoyed great fishing in ihe rivers - in- this district but "it has , gonp' back cqhsiderably ^during the past three years or so," saia the informaut. "I have been rather surp.ris' ed ttl" Ihe puhlished reports ot the good • catches at Taupo, for the reports that I have received froih friends have . been to the contrary. Certainly it has been . a poor season so far in the rivers down this wav.' Though it was generally agreed that the society had liberated plenty of yeSTlinga and fry, he added that the ro appeared to be few lish.in the rivers at the present time. ' ' Steveral of «o have been out on several -days without getting a decent catch, let alone having some sport, '* he said. "The only remedy appears to be to liberate brown trout."

It was pointed out that, at the present time, only a few brown trout wero in the rivers, the main type liberated being Tainbow trout, bufc where all the young fish liberated went to is not known. Members were satisfied that they 16ft the rivers but where they went was a "mystery." This agpect was now being investigated by tho Scientilio and Industrial Besearch Department. The suggested chauge to brown trout was prompted by the fact that these were known as esfuary fish and frequented river mouths and rivers ' and did not "migrate." "It is admittea that angling is ft sport and that the rainbow provides the greatest sport," conclnded this angler, " but after all, even fhe most enthusiastic sportsman likes to hav® something in his bag after walking np and down the. river all day."