XX 

 ON THE MOOI OF NATAL 



THE Mooi is one of four really good trout 

 rivers in Natal. The other three are the 

 Umgeni, the Bushman's and the Loteni. 

 The Mooi used to be the most popular 

 not only with anglers in the old Garden Colony, 

 as Natal used to be called before legislature 

 promoted it, on 3ist May, 1910, to the status of 

 a Province, but also with anglers farther afield. 

 In Johannesburg, for instance, its fame is 

 established. From Park, the principal station at 

 Johannesburg, golfers go, when on holiday, to 

 the Kowie, Cape Province ; those who love the 

 seaside make for Natal in winter, and for favourite 

 haunts in Cape Province in summer ; anglers 

 generally make it their starting point for Notting- 

 ham Road, Natal, to fish the Mooi. 



On leaving Johannesburg for an angling trip 

 in Natal you feel much as you would were you a 

 hard-worked professional or business man in 

 London awaiting at Paddington or King's Cross 

 a train to bear you away on a fishing holiday to 

 Devonshire or Scotland. Of course, you get no 

 salmon in South Africa, yet if it is late September, 



