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catching the game with a worm or minnow or salmon 

 egg. The "many" refers to fishermen, or professional 

 fly tiers, not Anglers. 



The Angler and the ordinary fisherman are as far 

 separated in character and nature as the humming- 

 bird and the buzzard are separated in life and lesson. 



The real opposer to bird-protection in this objection 

 to the clause prohibiting the importation of bird 

 feathers and skins is the commercial fellow, and there 

 is no commercial side to angling. 



The Angler is a student as well as a lover of nature, 

 and he knows that without the insect-eating birds 

 there can be no trees, that without trees there can be 

 no waters, that without waters there can be no fishes, 

 and that without fishes there can be no fishing. The 

 stupid fisherman can't surmount this, and the com- 

 mercial fly tier, whose business alone teaches him 

 enough of the angling art to be able to figure this 

 natural science, thinks too much of his money creel 

 to admit it. This pretended ignorance is called good 

 business instinct, and the Angler doesn't object to 

 men minding their own business, but when business 

 instinct runs wild and evokes the effrontery to imply 

 that the Angler, a non-commercial being, is opposed 

 to the prohibition of earth-valuable bird extermina- 

 tion, business instinct is going a little too far with its 

 money-mad method. 



The Angler does not condemn the use of correct 

 tackle; he's a believer in it, and just as he is sincere in 

 his advocacy of proper tackle and in his immaculate 

 use of proper tackle, so is he sincere in his profound 

 belief in correct methods in fishing. 



The fisherman the fellow who judges his day by 

 the number of fishes he kills in any manner regardless 



