156 THe Determined Angler 



Discrimination. Do not worry if the fish are small 

 so long as they are of legal size; reduce your tackle. 

 A vest-pocket watch keeps just as good time as a town- 

 hall clock. 



Sportsmanship. Chivalry to his companion and 

 humane treatment to the game he pursues are the 

 Angler's axioms. 



Giving Fishes to Neighbors. Don't give your 

 neighbors part of your catch. They won't appreciate 

 it. They'll throw them away in most cases. If they 

 cook and eat them they suffer the belief that they are 

 doing you a favor. Most recipients of fishes think the 

 specimens too small, or that they have too many bones, 

 or that they are too thin, too tough, too hard to scale, 

 etc. They'd rather have a bought-and-paid-for cold- 

 storage cod of ten pounds than a freshly caught brook 

 trout presented by an Angler friend. 



Not All of Fishing to Fish. "The fisherman whose 

 catching of many fish causes him to forget his sur- 

 roundings, blinds his eyes to the beauties of Nature, 

 and deadens his ears to the music of the wild, is no 

 Angler." 0. W. Smith. 



