CHAPTER VI 



THE WANTON WAY 



" There's an Angler's law, and a court or legal law. The fisher- 

 man who adheres to the Angler's law can't break the court law." 

 SETH FIELDING. 



GENTILITY in the limit of the catch and giving the 

 fish its sporting chance on light tackle constitute the 

 ethical soul of angling. The fisherman who stops 

 fishing when he has a few specimens is angling; he's 

 an Angler. The fisherman who fishes with no limit 

 in his catch is merely fishing; he's a fisherman, not an 

 Angler. 



Any picture of a few fishes may illustrate the catch of 

 the. Angler, and the photograph on Frontispiece shows 

 the catch of the worst type of fisherman the wanton 

 fish exterminator who, ignoring the Angler's gentle 

 law, takes his greedy mess because it is according to 

 the so-called legal law. 



Dr. William T. Hornaday, author of Wild Life 

 Conservation, The American Natural History, Our 

 Vanishing Wild Life, etc., and director of the New 

 York Zoological Park, has sent me the photograph of 

 the greedyman's catch made near Spokane, Wash- 

 ington with the following notes : 



1 'The great trouble [in the matter of wasteful fish- 

 catching] is not so much with the people who catch 



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