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Identifier: annualreport891901021newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
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nce. The steel rod has its admirers also.The automatic reels are a delight to those who have learned how to use themand when and when not to push the button. The finer the tackle the more thepleasure with a skillful hand at the butt. The success, however, measuredby the basket is not always commensurate. The rough and tumble of much ofAdirondack fishing suggests the use of a fairly substantial fishing outfit. By reason of destructive agencies, some of which have been mentioned, onlyon the private preserves, in streams and lakes somewhat inaccessible to the lessenterprising sportsman, and here and there a lake unusually fitted for the growthof trout, are they found in anything like satisfactory numbers. Do what theymay, the State hatcheries cannot do much to.meet or arrest the decrease whilethese abuses continue, and the sportsman predicts in sadness that if they arenot checked the next generation very likely will know nothing of Adirondacktrout fishing except from tradition and books.
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CO < en< H <O w o FISHES AND FISHING IN THE ADIRONDACKS. 251 There are some very evident causes of this condition — causes which the Statecould have prevented or arrested if it had begun the work of preserving theforest, fish aud game in time. Apparently, it was only when it began to seethat commercial interests were involved, and water for navigation and waterpower was diminishing from a denuding of the forest, that the State awoke tothe situation, then too late to undo the mischief, and undertook to save some-thing from the wreck. The damage cannot be repaired within a decade, aquarter or half century. But a beginning has been made, and with a seriouseffort the Adirondacks some time — not while the older sportsmen are on earthto enjoy it — the forest may come back to something like its old glory, and thenative home of the trout fitted for their return. The greatest injury to the forest — and incidentally to the game fishing — hasbeen caused by the reckless lumberi

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