﻿Aethue. 
  — 
  On 
  the 
  Brown 
  Trout 
  introduced 
  into 
  Otaj/o. 
  273 
  

  

  trout 
  in 
  1869, 
  and 
  finding 
  it 
  measure 
  seven 
  inches, 
  wlucli 
  would 
  represent 
  a 
  

   "weight 
  under 
  half 
  a 
  pound. 
  If 
  we 
  say 
  then 
  that 
  the 
  above 
  two 
  trout 
  

   attained 
  a 
  weight 
  in 
  the 
  first 
  year 
  of 
  even 
  one 
  pound, 
  then 
  their 
  subsequent 
  

   average 
  growth 
  must 
  have 
  been 
  2flbs. 
  and 
  /qB)s. 
  respectively, 
  yearly. 
  

  

  Water 
  of 
  Leith. 
  — 
  In 
  1869 
  the 
  first 
  trout 
  were 
  put 
  in 
  this 
  stream, 
  75 
  in 
  

   number, 
  and 
  additions 
  have 
  from 
  year 
  to 
  year 
  been 
  made 
  to 
  this 
  and 
  other 
  

   rivers 
  to 
  keep 
  up 
  the 
  stock. 
  In 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  1874 
  and 
  beginning 
  of 
  1875 
  the 
  

   Leith 
  was 
  opened 
  for 
  angling, 
  when 
  the 
  largest 
  trout 
  caught 
  weighed 
  31bs. 
  

   In 
  August, 
  1875, 
  among 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  spawning 
  fish 
  taken, 
  I 
  saw 
  one 
  

   which 
  must 
  have 
  weighed 
  7lbs. 
  Mr. 
  Deans, 
  the 
  curator 
  of 
  our 
  Acclimatiza- 
  

   tion- 
  Society, 
  informs 
  me 
  of 
  a 
  male 
  trout 
  taken 
  in 
  the 
  Leith, 
  in 
  1877, 
  which 
  

   weighed 
  12|-lbs. 
  ; 
  and 
  in 
  February 
  of 
  this 
  year 
  a 
  gentleman 
  caught 
  a 
  female, 
  

   while 
  fishing 
  with 
  artificial 
  minnow, 
  which 
  weighed 
  lOlbs. 
  This 
  latter 
  fish 
  

   I 
  saw 
  ; 
  it 
  was 
  a 
  very 
  weU-shaped 
  specimen 
  and 
  in 
  excellent 
  condition. 
  It 
  

   is 
  certainly 
  astonishing 
  that 
  trouts 
  can 
  attain 
  such 
  weights 
  in 
  so 
  small 
  a 
  

   stream 
  running 
  through 
  a 
  city 
  like 
  Dunedin 
  ! 
  The 
  average 
  yearly 
  growth 
  

   of 
  the 
  largest 
  of 
  these 
  trout 
  — 
  viz., 
  the 
  male 
  fish 
  — 
  is 
  a 
  little 
  over 
  l^lbs. 
  — 
  on 
  

   the 
  same 
  supposition 
  as 
  I 
  used 
  regarding 
  the 
  Shag 
  Eiver 
  fish 
  — 
  viz., 
  that 
  it 
  

   was 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  fish 
  put 
  in 
  in 
  1869. 
  Any 
  other 
  theory 
  will, 
  of 
  course, 
  give 
  a 
  

   more 
  rapid 
  growth, 
  but 
  I 
  do 
  not 
  consider 
  it 
  safe 
  to 
  err 
  in 
  that 
  direction. 
  

  

  Lee 
  Stream. 
  — 
  Trout 
  were, 
  to 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  98, 
  put 
  into 
  this 
  (which 
  has 
  

   become 
  the 
  favourite 
  angling 
  stream 
  of 
  Otago) 
  in 
  the 
  year 
  1869. 
  No 
  other 
  

   lot 
  of 
  trout 
  has 
  ever 
  been 
  added, 
  yet 
  these 
  98 
  young 
  fish 
  have 
  stocked 
  the 
  

   stream 
  throughout 
  its 
  whole 
  course 
  of 
  some 
  twenty 
  miles 
  from 
  near 
  the 
  

   Lammerlaw 
  mountains 
  to 
  the 
  Taieri 
  Eiver 
  into 
  which 
  it 
  flows. 
  It 
  was 
  open 
  

   for 
  angling 
  in 
  1875. 
  In 
  October 
  of 
  that 
  year 
  a 
  well-known 
  angler 
  killed 
  

   some 
  very 
  fine 
  fish 
  with 
  fly. 
  The 
  heaviest 
  of 
  these 
  weighed 
  5lbs. 
  — 
  this 
  is 
  

   equal 
  to 
  a 
  yearly 
  growth 
  of 
  -f 
  of 
  a 
  lb., 
  or 
  say 
  lib. 
  

  

  Deep 
  Stream. 
  — 
  In 
  1869 
  there 
  were 
  100 
  young 
  trout 
  turned 
  out 
  in 
  this 
  

   stream. 
  This 
  is 
  the 
  only 
  lot 
  ever 
  put 
  into 
  the 
  Deep 
  Stream, 
  where 
  fish 
  are 
  

   now 
  iDlentiful. 
  It 
  was 
  opened 
  for 
  angling 
  in 
  1875, 
  but 
  no 
  fish 
  over 
  2 
  to 
  41bs. 
  

   was 
  taken 
  till 
  1876, 
  when 
  one 
  of 
  81bs. 
  was 
  caught 
  with 
  grasshopper. 
  This 
  

   gives 
  1-^lbs. 
  as 
  the 
  known 
  yearly 
  growth, 
  on 
  an 
  average, 
  of 
  the 
  trout 
  in 
  

   the 
  Deep 
  Stream. 
  

  

  Jjpper 
  Taieri. 
  — 
  In 
  1870 
  a 
  few 
  dozen 
  young 
  trout 
  were 
  put 
  into 
  this 
  river 
  

   at 
  the 
  Styx, 
  and 
  in 
  1875 
  there 
  were 
  425 
  more 
  turned 
  in. 
  At 
  the 
  beginning 
  

   of 
  this 
  year 
  it 
  was 
  fished 
  for 
  the 
  first 
  time, 
  when 
  several 
  large 
  trout 
  were 
  

   taken, 
  weighing 
  from 
  3 
  to 
  6Ibs., 
  the 
  largest 
  w^hich 
  was 
  caught 
  with 
  the 
  fly 
  

   being 
  61t)s. 
  6ozSi 
  in 
  weight. 
  This 
  gives 
  the 
  greatest 
  possible 
  yearly 
  growth 
  

   at 
  13 
  ozs., 
  or 
  say 
  lib. 
  

  

  Of 
  other 
  streams 
  we 
  have 
  not 
  so 
  much 
  information 
  ; 
  but 
  I 
  may 
  mention 
  

   that 
  large 
  trout 
  have 
  been 
  seen 
  in 
  the 
  Kakauui, 
  Waitati, 
  Lovell's 
  Creek, 
  

  

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