ANGLING SEASON

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 674, 28 October 1933, Page 4

ANGLING SEASON

j GOOD PROSPECT/ EARLY SPAWNING SEAS(f IMPROVES CONDITION OF FISH > j & WEDNESDAY'S OPENING : Prospects for the angling ^ yhich opens in the Rotorua and m districts on Wednesday next, are encouraging according to the r servator of Fish and Game Kean) . The exceptionally dry winter heen most favourable for aii|| spawning season and obseryr] have shown tbat the fish are cu quently in much better condition^ is usual at this period of the j/ The spawning beds have not beeg turbed by floods and rangers of Internal Affairs Department i>'' that" an exceptionally large m increase of fry has taken plaet ' conversation with a "Morningj. representative yesterday, Mr. j] stated that his own observationi , firmed these reports. This weri had carried out liberations atli 'hau Bluff s on the Rangitaiki j,' and had observed one of the ]ji schools of naturally spawnedp that he had encountered in alos perience of fish culture work. t Mr. Kean stated that he hafej returned from an inspection « fishing waters in the Bay of Pj All the indications were that j: successful season should be jj ienced in that area this year ftj were very plentiful and feed ? abundance. The same might h of all the waters in the distiii there seemed to be no shortaj catchahle fish in the streams' could be taken as an indicatio similar conditions in the lakes, His department was follo^ policy of liberating only froms ed stock and he felt that j were being shown in the imp auality of the fish taken eaclis sive season. Fish below sta were caref ully culled during stt operations, but the percentagi culls had been very low indeed an instance, only two fish had discarded out of approximately handled in recent stripping i tions in Lake Rotorua, and ti these had heen injured by

wounds. Insect and shell fish life * abundance in all the creeks ai ers, while exceptionally good r fish had been noted in the above the Huka Falls, in Lake; and in Lake Rotorua. A largi ber of fish had also been noted Green Lake, while the spavni in the Wairoa stream had'beei bered in thousands. There v a large number of late spawni in the Utuhina and Ngoa streams., With the exception of the d tion of two new fly areas on tt mana and Waioeka streams i Bay of Plenty, there had been terations in the fishing botu this season. Inquiries for accommodatio dicated that a considerable nun overseas anglers could be ej this year while the. general d for licenses and fishing tackle cated that a large number oi would be operating on Wednes