88 TKe Determined Angler 



Himself will not condemn little children, male or 

 female, who fish indiscriminately, "because they do 

 not know. " Fishing for the modern market is just as 

 honorable as market fishing was in the ancient days 

 when Jesus praised the net fishermen and made them 

 His nearest and dearest friends, and angling merciful 

 ungreedy fishing with humane tackle and a clear 

 conscience is even more righteous than net fishing, 

 because, while the main result of the Angler's pursuit 

 is the same as the marketman's fish taking the 

 Angler's method of capture is far less cruel, and his 

 creel of fish is far less in number than the boatful of 

 the marketman. 



The distinction in angling and fishing is made by 

 the modes employed in the taking, the killing, and the 

 disposing of the fishes. Any fisherman who uses tackle 

 appropriate to the various species, who is not greedy 

 in his catch, who plays his game with mercy, who dis- 

 patches it with the least suffering, who disposes of it 

 without wanton waste, and who is thankful to the 

 Maker for the ways and'means for all these conditions, 

 is an Angler. And cannot woman be as artful and 

 gentle in pursuits and as appreciative in feeling as man ? 

 Surely. England and Scotland and Ireland are 

 famous for their women Anglers, and Maine, the 

 Adirondacks, California, and Canada boast of the 

 finest female fly-casters in the world. There are more 

 women Anglers in these last-named territories than 

 there are men Anglers in all other parts of the United 

 States. A woman, Mary Orris Marbury, wrote the 

 best volume scientifically descriptive of trout, bass, 

 and salmon flies of modern times, and Cornelia Crosby, 

 a daughter of the Maine wilderness, is the fly-fishing 

 enthusiast of America. 



