BRIGHT PROSPECTS FOR FISHING
SEASON OPENS ON TUESDAY
With less water in the fishing rivers now than there was at the opening of last season, there is every prospect that excellent sport will be available for anglers when the season opens on Tuesday, October 1. The rivers have been running clear during the winter and the smaller rain-fed streams particularly should offer fine sport for fly fishermen from the opening day. The breeding season has been good and the traps on the Upukuroro river at Te Anau have had a favourable season. Not once during the season have they been washed out, which is unusual. Brown and rainbow trout and Atlantic salmon are plentiful. There is less water in the snow-fed rivers, the Waiau, the Oreti and the Mataura, and the fishing should reach its peak earlier than usual. The petrol shortage is bound to have the effect of making the streams handy to urban areas relatively more popular than they have been in previous years. Another factor which tends to make the prospects even better is the comparatively light fishing which rivers received because of the constant flooding last season, when for a large part of the seven mouths the rivers were unfishable.
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Southland Times, Issue 24240, 25 September 1940, Page 4
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204BRIGHT PROSPECTS FOR FISHING Southland Times, Issue 24240, 25 September 1940, Page 4
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