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Title: With fly-rod and camera
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Samuels, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1836-1908
Subjects: Fishing Fishing
Publisher: New York, Forest and Stream Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ent. Yes, I replied, but I am afraid that the recipientsdo not always appreciate how much trouble and expensewe incur in sending our presents to them. In fact, Ihave sometimes almost vowed that I would never asainsend away a fish. Not very long ago, at a good dealof trouble, I packed a nice box of trout and sent it toa friend. On meeting him a few weeks after, he thankedme in a civil enough way, but coolly stated that, althoughthe fish Avere nice and all that, he would rather have afresh mackerel any time. Ha, ha, laughed my friend, you probably neversent him another box after that. No, 3ou may depend on it, I answered, and infact I nowadays seldom send away any fish unless I knowthey are going w^here they will be fully appreciated; if Iget more than my party can eat, I give them away amongthe settlers around. I never waste a fish anyway. No, wicked waste that would be, said Frere. I used to see wicked waste at the Rangeley Lakes,in Maine, said I, after a short pause, awful waste, in-
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362 WitJi Fly-Rod and Camera. deed. Before the present fish law was enacted, no hmitwas placed on the size of the catch of anglers, and theycould kill at their own sweet will as many trout, largeor small, as they wished. I have seen a man come intocamp at night with two hundred and fifty trout, some ofthem so small as to be too insignificant for cooking, andI once saw on the shore of a famous trout brook a pileof over a thousand fingerlings, which had been caught andleft to rot. It was outrageous. Fortunately now the lawrestricts the fisherman in the size of his catch and num-ber of pounds in his possession, and prohibits him fromsending them away, although he may carry fifty poundswith him when he leaves, and this provision should sat-isfy any reasonable sportsman. This law will stay thecrreat destruction that has been oroino- on. I should think, said Frere, judging by the ac-counts of the fishing at your famous lakes, that the lawhas come too late; I should imagine the stock might b

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