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weight of 0-6 lbs., orja little over half a pound each. I have no informa- 
tion as to the heaviest trout in it, but I believe they have been caught 
nearly 6 lbs. in weight. As it flows into the Clutha River below the Wai- 
wera, it must be visited by smelts and whitebait. Here I ought to notice 
in passing that Mr. M‘Kinnon, hotel-keeper, in March, 1883, killed with 
native minnow in the Puerua a trout of 22 Ibs. As trout were first turned 
into this little river in 1878, the least possible yearly growth of this fish 
would be 2°2 lbs. 
The Waiwera River is four times as large as the Kaihiku, and was in great 
repute among anglers for the size and excellence of its trout a few years 
ago; but, owing to the hotel on its banks having stopped business, not 
many have fished it during the two last summers. It is situated a few 
miles west of the Kaihiku, and flows over a similar formation. There is 
good shelter, plenty range, with rocky reefs crossing the stream in many 
places. There are also plenty of weeds in the reaches, which become long 
and affect the surface. Several takes by anglers I know of, which are 
these :— 
1879, one angler fishing two days; result, 2:5 fish per day; pom 
weight, 2°65 lbs. 
1879 to 1881, another fishing nine days; result, 1:77 fish per day; 
average weight, 1:56 lbs. 
1882, a third fishing a day and a half; result, 8:0 fish per day; 
average weight, 2:41 lbs. 
Previous to last season I know of no trout over 61bs. being caught, but 
on January 18th, 1883, two magnificent female trout were exhibited in 
Melville, the fishmonger’s window, Dunedin, said to have been taken by a 
Mr. Miller in the Waiwera, which weighed 141lbs. and 103 lbs. respectively, 
and of these dimensions :—Length, larger, 284 inches, depth 83 inches, girth 
204 inches; smaller 27} inches in length, depth 74 inches, and girth 154 
inches. These trout were in colour dark along back, shaded off into a 
yellow and then white towards the belly, fins all dark, and spots black, 
large and round like most Waiwera fish. They were so small in the head 
and also so deep in the side, being about one-third of total lengths, as to 
have quite the shape of perch, but were not correspondingly thick across the 
back. In fact their unusual depth of side was evidently attained at the 
expense of their thickness, for neither fish had as great a girth as an ordin- 
ary well-filled-up plump trout, and which I have found to be as nearly as 
possible two and a half times the depth. For all that, they were the finest- 
looking specimens of brown trout I have seen in Otago, and the growth of 
the larger one could not be less than 1:45 lbs. yearly, as trout were first put 
in Waiwera in 1873. The stomachs of such trout as I have opened from 
