Angling.

Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 37, 8 December 1894, Page 9

Angling.

VJGKREHT HOTES

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Local anglers have not been doing much during the past week, saving up their energy and enthusiasm for the holidays. But the trouble with many is where to go to get the best sport. Perhaps some of my country readers would assist by telling me as to the kind of sport one may expect in their locality, also the best baits, and the accommodation to be had. We would all like to go to some stream that has not been fished before, and where the fish average 25 lbs weight, but would be satisfied with water that is not much fished, and take our chance of the ‘whoppers.’ Mr W. Broad bagged a very nice ten pounder below the Perry on Wednesday evening, and a few evenings ago Mr it. Brodrick, after a desperate struggle (having no gaff with him) succeeded in landing a very strong fish, weighing close to the bridge, at Gladstone. The Otago Anglers’ Association’s hospital day resulted in 97 fish, weighing 142 lb, being sent to that institution by nine gentlemen. A fish that shoots flies, the Jaculator, is-a very pretty variegated fish, and an accomplished fly-catcher. He frequents the estuaries Of rivers in Java, and haunts the shore where the vegetation grows down to the water’s edge. ‘ He is on the look out for a fly or other insect, and when he notices one settle on a leaf or flower he swims close up, takes in a supply of water, pokes his long mouth above the surface and ejects a drop ot water at the fly, seldom failing to strike his prey and bring it down, though it may have been from a distance of five or six feet. The Chinese keep these curious fish in glass jars, and find great amusement in watching them going through the performance of shooting flies. The best Spey salmon of the year has been landed by Lady Evelyn Gordon Lennox from the Gordon Castle water. It weighed thirtyeight pounds.