TROUT-FISHING IN NEW ZEALAND 



fly accounted for far more than three times the number of fish taken on 

 the spinning bait; and this, in the opinion of most anglers, goes greatly 

 to enhance the quality of the sport. It will be observed also that all but 

 three of these fish were rainbow trout; particulars of brown trout fishing 

 are given on a later page. 



•* The Tongariro River, New Zealand, flows from the great central 

 mountains into the southern end of Lake Taupo Moana at Tokaanu. 

 The scenery is very fine; on the east are the Kaimanawa Mountains, 

 on the west the Tongariro Mountain, and, a little further south, the 

 active volcano Ngauruhoe, with its snow-clad, smoking summit. 

 Away to the south-west towers the mighty Ruapehi. Broad stretches 

 of grass-land border the river, broken in places by thickets of manuka 

 and phortnium or New Zealand flax. 



*• The river itself is a wide, sweeping stream, very swift and rough 

 in places, in others resting in long, placid reaches. When the water 

 is fairly high, the best lure is a salmon -fly ; but the fish, chiefly rainbow 

 trout, take the spoon and Devon minnow well in clear water. Brown 

 trout will seldom take in the daytime; they may be caught at night, 

 however, on a spinning bait, and, if there is a moon, on the fly. 

 Rainbow trout run up to 20 lb. in weight, and brown trout as high 

 as 35 lb. 



"Lake Taupo Moana is a magnificent sheet of water, five -and - 

 twenty miles long and sixteen miles broad, lying at an elevation of 

 1,250 feet. Large trout are taken therein by trolling, and there is 

 good fly-fishing in the innumerable streams that pour into it from the 

 surrounding mountains." 



TONGARIRO RIVER. NEW ZEALAND, 1912. 



A. A. JAMIESON, C. C. HENDERSON HAMILTON, G. N. HORLICK, C. E. LUCAS. 



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