THE ANGLER’S PARADISE

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5255, 23 March 1928, Page 4

THE ANGLER’S PARADISE

TRIBUTE TO NEW ZEALAND.

A writer In a London paper says : —

“Salmon are now.so familiar a sight in the southern half of that anglers’ paradise, New Zealand, that one is surprised to hear that the man who introduced, them, Mr Leonard Ayson, dic'd..’ only this summer out there. Trout are now- caught everywhere in Nfj\v Zealand, though thei first emigrants did not arrive by s’hip until late in the Victorian six'ties. From /Scotland, Loch Levcn and: brown, trout sailed for New Zealand; and from California, rainbow trout.. Skegness, the familiar railway poster has assured us, is so bracing. “ That, it would seem, is the way that trout feel about New for the average specimen is nearly six times the weight of a. British one. New Zealand, trout not infrequently run, to 121bs, and some sfvra pping monsters have been found to weigh as much as 30Ibs. An interesting attempt is now being made to. make the big fish at home in Scottish wa-ters. Thousands of the eggs, sent by ship, in trays on. which iced wuter was kept dripping, have been pint into rivers near Stirling. .

“ British perch, tench .and carp also travelled out by ship to; New Zealand, where they are now thoroughly estab; dished ; and hundreds iof our little minnows, along with tench, perch, and trout, and Anierican sun,fish, left Tilbury last/ November on the P. and O. liner Ciomorin for the Australian home in tb/e Murray River country of Mr Clive /Fairburn.”