LINE & TRIGGER.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XII, Issue 743, 2 June 1904, Page 13

LINE & TRIGGER.

Entries for the Hawke’s Bav Gun Club’s £ioo Winter Handicap' must reach Mr W. J. Stratton by Saturday, June 4th. The match will ; e shot on June 2ist, the day before the Winter Meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club commences.

Amongst the most successful anglers in North Canterbury last season, whose records have been carefully kept (says the “Weekly Press”), are Mrs J. Ford, who landed 100 fish from the Waimakariri, weighing altogether soolb ; Mr H. Webb, who captured 166 fish, aggregating 6151 b weight, from the Lower Selwyn ; and Mr J. McNeil, who took 117 fish, weighing 314-i-lb, also from the Selwyn.

The latest device in fishing is an electric fishing-rod, the invention of a German, named M. Werner Lindbohm. The butt end of the rod near the reel is hollow, and contains an induction coil and battery. The inventor claims that when a fish bites you can immediately kill or stun it by pressing a button, which causes a discharge of electricity through the line, which carries wires to make the circuit. Anticipating the natural objections which some anglers

may advance respecting the kill sport as well as kill fish nature of his invention, he says that, “Those who try my electric rod can) at once convince themselves to the contrary. The sportsman, who only fishes for pleasure and not for the pot will only switch on the current under the following circumstances : —(1) When the fish threatens to break the tackle and escape—for example, when it is getting into dangerous proximity ta stones, roots, &c. ; (2) when the angler has no time to play his fish. By means of this rod fishermen can secure their prey more quickly than by any other. We should look upon this invention as a means of ameliorating and shortening: the sufferings of the fish.”