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mother. The other was as spotted as a leopard. 
When I whistled, the doe pricked up her cars, 
and her delicate nostrils worked nervously as she 
tried to get our wind. At a whistling snort from 
her the fawns bounded into the woods growth 
and disappeared in a twinkling followed more 
slowly by the doe. 
After supper we lit our pipes and sat by a 
roaring camp-fire and talked over the day’s sport. 
The steelyards showed that my mascalonge 
weighed forty-two pounds. A. A. Marriott. 
Fly-Casting in Australia. 
Through the kindness of John S. Anderson, 
of London, we are able to reprint the following 
from the Sydney (N. S. W.) Herald of June 27: 
Clever rod work was witnessed on Saturday 
at Centennial Park in the Anglers’ Casting Club’s 
competition, in dry-fly casting for distance. There 
land, 2; C. IT. Gorrick, 3; H. J. Ackland, 4; Dr. 
Brandon, 5. 
Added to the records for the previous Satur¬ 
day’s competition points now credited to the 
principal competitors are: Dr. Maitland and H. 
K. Anderson, 12 points each; IT. J. Ackland, 6 
points; Dr. Brandon, 5 points; C. H. Gorrick 
and F. L. J. Thompson, 3 points each ; Dr. Brady 
and W. E. Wilson, 1 point each. 
Angling in New Zealand. 
Particulars of good catches of trout taken 
from New Zealand lakes and streams during the 
past (1909-10) season have been sent us from 
Auckland. A summary follows : 
C. Fitton, angling in Lake Rotorua and streams 
feeding same, during the past season landed 
3,676 trout, 3,639 of these being caught with the 
fly. The average weight per fish was 21 pounds 
G. T. Churnside. 
T. Keenan . 
R. Westray . 
C. J. Percival. 
T. Latham . 
E. W. Pulling. 
Col. Ryan . 
E. Horton . 
Mr. and Mrs. Payne.. 
Mr. Ryan and H. Hayr 
A. E. Farrar. 
230 
HV 2 
220 
17 
197 
15% 
169 
141/2 
171 
13% 
158 
131/2 
111 
14 
100 
151/2 
80' 
I 61/2 
68 
15 
65 
14% 
Capt. White, England, fishing in the Tongariro 
River, Lake Taupo, caught 495 fish, an average 
of 7.3 pounds per fish, the largest weighing 15)4 
pounds. 
The following flies were used: Jock-Scott, 
216 fish; Silver-Doctor, 41; gray-eagle, 38; yel¬ 
low-eagle, 30; dusty-miller, 10. 
Lake Rerewhakaitu, Rotorua : Messrs lies and 
Goodson caught fourteen fish on fly in one day; 
average, 7)4 pounds. 
Waikato River : Eleven fish on fly, two rods; 
heaviest 12 pounds. 
Rangataiki River: Fifteen fish on fly, two 
ONE OF THE SYDNEY CASTING CLUB'S TROPHIES. 
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The size of the diploma is about 20X30 inches, suitable for framing. 
SOUTH AFRICAN SHARK TACKLE. 
C. E. Merrin, of the Natal Coast Anglers’ Association, in position for playing a 
fish. The rod, of whole, cane, is in one piece, 12ft. in length. Reel, wood, 8 in. in 
diameter. Casts of 240ft. from the rocks with half-pound sinkers, are not unusual. 
The picture is from the Fishmg Gazette. 
was a little wind blowing in variable directions 
at first, and the competitors were allowed to cast 
to left or right of the pontoon. Fourteen faced 
the judge. The difficulty of the dry-fly cast for 
distance was in the fact that the fly had to be 
thrice cast in the air between each essay. If it 
touched the water, “No cast” was called. The 
object was to ensure the drying of the fly by the 
wind, as is often required in the sport on rivers. 
In the first round the best results were: D. 
Solomon, 55 feet 8 inches; Dr. A. J. Brady, 61 
feet 2 inches; C. H. Gorrick (hon. sec.), 71 fee.t 
2 inches; FI. K. Anderson, 98 feet g/ 2 inches; 
Dr. H. L. Maitland, 98 feet 9)4 inches; H. J. 
Ackland, 85 feet 1 inch. In the second round 
nearly all the anglers did better, as the wind was 
easier. The best figures were: Dr. S. Brandon, 
70 feet 5 inches; Dr. S. H. Hughes, 70 feet 2 
inches; C. H. Gorrick, 90 feet 6)4 inches; IT. K. 
Anderson, 102 feet; Dr. Maitland did not reach 
the distance he covered in the first round. Mr. 
Anderson’s dry cast is the record for Australia, 
and probably would be the record anywhere else, 
but dry-fly distance events are not apparently re¬ 
corded by British authorities yet. The placings 
resulted thus: IT. Iv. Anderson, 1; Dr. Mait- 
6 ounces. The same angler, during 1908-9 season 
landed 2,256 fish. 
Fishing near Tokaanu, at the south end of 
Lake Taupo, one day toward the end of Novem¬ 
ber, 1909, the following catch of rainbow trout 
was made by Messrs. Asher, Jones and party, all 
fish being taken on the fly: 19L2, i8)4, 17)4, 15, 
1 3 ) 4 , 1 3 ) 4 , 1 314 , 12)4 , 12, 12, iiM, n) 4 , 9 l/ 2, 9V2, 
9/4, 8, 7)4, 7, 6)4 pounds; the nineteen fish av¬ 
eraged 12 pounds. This catch was one of the 
best for the locality during the season. 
Other good baskets taken at Taupo during 
November were: Mr. Ngamotu, 37 fish; largest 
12 pounds. L. Coutts, 23 fish; largest 12 pounds. 
G. Reid, 16 fish, a i3)4-pounder being the heaviest. 
T. Noble, 30 fish, one being 12)4 pounds. Mr. 
Passmore, 10 fish, largest scaling 13 pounds. Mr. 
Musker and party landed 18 fish, one being an 
iB’/T-poun’der, which was caught by Mrs. Musker. 
Results obtained by anglers fishing rivers in 
the Western Bay, Lake Taupo: 
No. of fish. 
Cot. Moorp . 566 
Guv Fenwick . 409 
T. 'Whitehead. 344 
IT. Shields . 299 
A. F. D'Arcy, G. Bloomfield and 
E. Anderson (in six days). 284' 
Largest. 
18 pounds. 
17 
16% “ . 
14% “ 
16 
rods; average 5 pounds. Two hours’ fishing. 
ITannirana Stream : Messrs. Cherry and Steele 
caught forty-two fish on fly in one day; average 
5 pounds. Mr. Cherry cought twenty-five fish on 
fly; average 3)4 pounds in one hour and ten 
minutes. 
Tarawera River: Messrs. Ryan and Green 
caught thirty-four fish on fly during one day’s 
fishing; average 5 pounds. 
Westland District.—Hokitika River: R. Ap¬ 
pleton caught three fish weighing 31 pounds; J. 
J. Rooney, six fish at Kanieri, weighing 42 
pounds, and Mr. Douglas caught two at W r ood- 
sock weighing 23)4 pounds. 
Grey District: Mr. Campbell caught two 
brown trout in Grey River weighing 10 and 13Z 
pounds respectively. T. Oliver landed a 14)4- 
pounder from the same river. 
Waitaki and Waimate District.—Waitaki 
River: Messrs. McCullough, Orr and McIntyre 
caught ten fish; largest 15 pounds. 
Southland District: Fishing the Oreti River, 
P. P. Sise landed five fish; largest 17 pounds. In 
seven evenings on the Oreti at Center Bush, 
Chas. Bloy landed a number of fish with the fly, 
the largest being 12 pounds. 
