ANGLING NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4831, 3 October 1894, Page 2

ANGLING NOTES.

[BY IZAAK,]

Fishermen cannot grumble at the weather they have been getting since my last notes, for'it has been splendid weather for catching fish, if rather cold for fishermen. Perhaps many of the younger anglers do not know, that when tho,sky is clouded and the weather thrcateni ing that it is far the best time for fishing. Trout have been rising all day long, and those who went out have mostly secured good baskets. > One of the best records have been.by I your humble scribe y'lzaak," Mo , last Thursday took 19 fish in three . hours; Friday, 22 fish in three and , a- half hours, one of them turning the scale at 2Mb j Saturday, 111 three , hours, 25 lisli; Monday, again ]9 fish, . in 2 hours; and Tuesday evening, the worst night of the week 9 fish in H hours, The lisli of last basket , were the smallest in regard to sizo ■ which wero taken. Total for Jive nights' fishing of 13 hours, 94 fish, I was greatly surprised to find that I was almost the sole occupant of the river bank on several occasions. Fishermen could not have recognised the opportunity they were letting slip, The rains wo arc now getting will probably bring the rciuaining bhow off the ranges, and anglers may look for. a fresh in the river, when they will be able to take good baskets of trout if they put on a "worm" cast. When the" water is a little discolored, then is the proper time to go out fishing with worms, Mr W. Rising secured a splendid basketoftroutfromtheilaungatarere at Belvedere one evening last week In less than two hours he landed twenty-six' fish, all of them a nice size.—l'tew, The gentle poacher has already commenced operations in the rivers in tho Wairarann, V.nlkv wit.li mmif.

. jiiwo murarapa vauey witngreat ' success, while the more honest rod i fishermen can hardly boast of a bite. Snares, nets, night lines, and other nefarious means aro employed by , the law-breakers, "i'was over thus, says Truth. I am afraid that this is not exactly the "truth," although perhaps a littlo" poaching" is going on. A Greytown disciple of the rod visited llasterton one day last week for a fqw hours fishing, and during the afternoon he .succeeded in landing sixteen fish from tlio Waipoua,'