480 DORADOS. 



successful results. On the Mooi River in the Trans- 

 vaal, Mr. Parker Gilmore states that good fishing is to 

 be obtained "yellow fish and Siluridoe, erroneously 

 here called barbel, are abundant, and grow to a great 

 size. " Grasshoppers and locusts are much used as 

 bait in this part of the world. In Zululand we have 

 ourselves seen two very large baskets of fish captured 

 in a day's fishing by two anglers on a small river. 



In the Botletli river in the neighbourhood of Lake 

 Ngami, excellent sport is reported by a late writer in 

 The. Field newspaper. With common hand-line and hook 

 large " barbel, " as they are called, were easily captured 

 thirteen fish over ten pounds each being pulled out by two 

 fishermen in a morning's fishing. Perch of five different 

 species, and a sort of bass were also caught, three and 

 a half dozen of these fish of an average weight of two 

 pounds being taken in about three hours. The baits for 

 these latter were grasshoppers or the entrails of birds. 

 Early in the mornings or late in the afternoons were 

 the best hours, and then almost any sort of bait 

 will catch barbel, and an ordinary sea-line and cod- 

 hook baited with a lump of meat was found the most 

 effective, f 



From the Amazon, the Rio de La Plata, and the 

 Parana in South America, splendid sport has also been 

 reported. Near the juncture of the Parana and Paraguay 

 rivers above Corrientes very fine sport is to be had, 

 splendid fish called " dorados " (a species of gigantic 

 goldfish) being taken at times in great numbers. 

 These fish often run up to a great size. 



Also, in India, the mahseer fishing (which lasts 



* A Ride Through Hostile Africa, by Parker Gilmore, p. 132. 

 y Letter in The Field of July 19, 1890, signed J. A. Nichols. 



