The efforts to land one of these fish—whatever they) may be—with a fly is the business we are after. We understand that there is one authenticated catch. a fair sized] is after dark, and accordingly two of the best known local anglers were out last week on the job. In this case they did not essay the moth, but tried various orthodox flies. All without success. On several occasions they saw decent-sized fish come to the surface and dive again, but were unable to decide whether they were merely playing or out after food. At any rate they took no-notice of the artificial tit-bits offered them, On a previous occasion we have alluded to the non-success of fly fishers in these neighbouring ponds with large fish. The best that they are prepared to say of the fishing is that it keeps their hand until the time comes when they will be better situated for following their favourite pastime. As regards j the larger fish of the kind alluded to in the preceding paragraph, it is more than probable that when they came to the surface they were merely disporting themselves. The fact is that they seem to be too well fed to bother much about anything artificial. Several years ago a local resident who gave up his fishing efforts in disgust reached this conclusion. There are others, however, more enthusiastic, who are determined to make the most exhaustive test with all the appliances at command.
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