THE ANGLER'S GUIDE 



his hand-line for the pure love of slaughter, or because he 

 imagines praise in fishing is acquired by the biggest basket. 



The net fisherman is not as noble as the angler because 

 his present-day pursuit depletes the waters, while the 

 angler, though he, too, takes fishes, protects and multiplies 

 the finny tribes; but this same net fisherman is no worse 

 than the ungentle hand-line fisher, who brags of his tubful 

 and barrelful, and, in the opinion of many wise judges, of 

 the two, the fisher is the more destructive. 



Net fishing and the net fisherman have not always been 

 in contempt. It is only in these days of glory in the greed 

 for gold that the pursuit has been degraded, and, with 

 the fast-multiplying laws of restriction and man's awaken- 

 ing to the necessity of protecting and propagating our food 

 fishes, it is quite probable that net fishing will be so reg- 

 ulated as to command praise in place of reproof for the 

 netter. 



There are many net fishermen and market-fish dealers 

 who are foremost in the effort to mend the ways and means 

 of the trade highly respected gentlemen and honest busi- 

 ness men whose voices are as loud against destructive 

 methods and whose assistance toward protection and pro- 

 pagation is as great as any anti-netting class in the world. 



Remember ye : 



The Old Testament teaches fishing with both seine and 

 line. 



Another View of the Gunnison River, near Cebolla, Colorado. 



