OVERSEAS ANGLERS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 720, 21 December 1933, Page 6

OVERSEAS ANGLERS

THREE WELL KNOWN SPORTSM.EN ARRIYE FROM ENGLAND TO VISIT ROTORUA Auckland, Mlednesday The Rangitata, which arrived" this morning from London, brought three well known fishermen. Two of them return year after year for what they consider the finest fishing the world has to offer. The third has been persuaded to come out by the glowing reports that he has heard from those who have tried New Zealand watfers. This is Mr. H. White-Wiickham's tenth visit to New Zealand in quest of big game fish. He made his first visit in 1921 and has missed only two* seasons since. "New Zealand has the finest fishing in the world," said Mr. White-Wdckham. "This year I am going to try the trout fishing. In England this last season it was very bad owing to the dry summer. In fact, it was considered the worst year for trout for nearly a century, so I am looking forwiard to your coming trout season." Mr. White-Wdckham will commence bigngame fishing from his fishing lodge at Deep Water Cove at the be'ginning of January. Last year he took 41 fish, of a total weight of 9870 pounds. His ibest catch was in 1927-28 season when he took 40 fish weighing 10,756 pounds. Mr. Wihite-Wickham will return to England by the Rangitata on its return voyage on May 11. Ninth Fishing Visit The well-known trout fisherman, Mr. F. Turner, has not missed a fishing season in iNew Zealand for the past nine years. He is a keen advocate of our fishing; in London, where he has persuaded many anglers in the past to come out and try ■it for themselves. He says that he makes a point of referring to our fishing grounds whenever he can, as some little return for the many kindnesses and assistance that are shown him when he is in this country. Last year at Rotorua and Rotoiti, Mr. Turner took 685 trout . of a total weight of 2064 pounds, the best fish being one of 9ilb. His great difficulty he says, is to get his English friends to believe these figures. He always fishes with a fly and generally favour.s the matuka yellow for New

IL Zealand waters. During the English sumimer, Mr. Turner fished in Scotland, where the droughts had dried the streams and made it the worst season for many years. He hopes to be able to come to New Zealand as long as he has the strength to get on a ship. To Try iBig Game iMr. A. du Cros, a prominent English trout fisherman, who is travell'ihg with his wife and his stepson, Mr. C. H. Hyde, -was persuaded by Mr. White-Wickham to try his hand at big game fishing. Mtr. du Cros' father was the originator of the pneumatic typre and founder of the Dunlop Rubber Company. The firm commenced the manufacture of pneumatic bicycle tyres in 1886 with a capital of £12,500. The capital of the . company is now over twenty millions. Mr. du Cros was a director of the company, but has now retired. In 1903 he made the first motor tour of Spain and other Continental countraes, and is the holder of one of the first int'ernational drivinig certificates issued by the Prefecture of the Paris police. iSince that time he has made I motor tours of almost every country in the world. He was a member of the British House of Commons for some years, and had the distinction of beating the present Labour leader, Mr. G. Lansbury, at one election for the constituency of Bromley.