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THE ANGLER ON THE RANGITATA. 
From a fisherman’s point of view, the most 
famous of the New Zealand snow rivers is the 
Rangitata, in South Canterbury. Swift and 
straight from the glaciers it flows through the 
rocky gorge, and afterward between high ter¬ 
races, or plains of tussock grass, until it en¬ 
ters the sea, about twenty miles to the north 
of the town of Timaru. As a rule the best 1 
fishing is obtained after Christmas, for during 
the early summer months the Rangitata is 
generally full of snow water, and often in 
spate. One of the hot northwest winds usual 
in November and December will quickly melt i 
enough snow on the mountains to bring down 
the river a mile wide, in a roaring torrent, 
which sweeps everything before it. 
Though many fish are taken at the begin¬ 
ning of the season in October, they are then 
in bad condition, and it is a pity that the open¬ 
ing day is not a month later. I do not know, 
says Drummond Sharpe in the London Field, 
why the Rangitata should be later than the 
majority of New Zealand rivers, but for some 
reason it certainly is so, and the trout only 1 
begin to put on weight when the whitebait 
come in from the sea. These so-called white- 
bait are silvery, almost transparent little fish, 
two or three inches in length, which ascend 
the rivers in countless swarms during the end 
of October and November. In a dense column 
they struggle slowly up stream, close to the ! 
edge, and the trout help themselves until they 
can hold no more. When the run of white- 
bait has nearly ceased, the cucumber smelts 
arrive, glittering fish something like a bleak, 
and with scales that rub off as easily. When 
handled they smell exactly like a fresh-cut 
cucumber. Naturally, when all this food is 
within reach, the trout are not so eager for 
an artificial minnow; but in January most of 
the bait has gone up, and the run of big sea¬ 
going trout begins. From this time until the 
season ends—on April 30—they come in with 
every tide—fine, fat fellows, weighing any¬ 
thing up to 16 or 17 pounds, and there is 
always a sporting chance of a 20-pounder. 
At the river mouth, separated from the sea 
by the lagoon and outer shingle bank, there is 
a colony of fishing huts—small wooden struc¬ 
tures, some of them containing only one tiny 
room; but in such an exposed situation a hut 
of any kind is better than a tent, which affords 
poor protection against the sudden storms that • 
often come up without warning from the 
south. Most of the huts are owned by anglers 
who run down for a week at intervals during 
the season, but one or two belong to pro¬ 
fessional fishermen, whose services can be 
hired for about a pound a day. This seems 
rather a long price, but it includes everything 
-—food, lodging, use of a boat, etc.—and a party 
of three or four is looked after at a lower rate. 
The great drawback to this fishing at the Ran¬ 
gitata mouth is that the trout are chiefly noc¬ 
turnal feeders. They will take a spinning 
bait for a few hours at dawn, but most of the 
heavy bags are made after dusk. When a 
northwester is blowing and the river is col¬ 
ored, a good basket can occasionally be made 
in the daytime, but if the water is at all clear 
the usual practice is to fish from dusk to 
