MR GHEESEMAN ON THE WAIKATO TROUT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2725, 31 December 1889, Page 3

MR GHEESEMAN ON THE WAIKATO TROUT.

In-the report (jiving a description of the larn-e trout caught at lliituilt'»u ->n L th inst., we mentioned that the head had been forwarded to Mr Cheeseman, Curator of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society. The following report ha« beon received from him ami will be read wiMi interest. From l his report it will be seen that the hsh belongs to the brown trout family, and was not a salmon trout as was generallI V supposed "The head it evidently that of a full-grown male brown trout, and not that of u siilmon or salmon trout, as I see was supposed in Hamilton. I cannot tell yon how pleased and gratified I was to receive it for it proves beyond all doubt that Hie stoekiiif of the Waikato River and its tributaries with trout is only a question of time, and it will »ivo us encouragement to go on breeding fish and liberating them. During the hist two vears we lm> o turned out several tlmtis in.ls of (me healthy youug li-sh into the tributaries of the Waikato above Oxford, into the Upper Thames, and into the Waipa at Otorohanga, and should these do as well as your specimen has there will soon be excellent fishing ill the' district. In the coming autumn we hope to send up 4000 or .0000 more. I -lio'ild say that your fish is at least six years old.' possibly m'.re. If anything is heard about more tish I should be glad :o have full particulars. I have uo doubt i.h.tt there arc more in the quite as good as the fellow whose acquaintance, you have made. —Yours truly, J. l'\ CheeseM.\N."