THE LEGAL WAY TO EXTERMINATE THE GAME FISHES 

 By Courtesy of the Minnesota Scenic Highways Association. 



HOW THE BAG "LIMIT" ON FISH WORKS OUT IN 

 THE STATE OF WASHINGTON 



A Practical Illustration, from the Port Angeles {Wash.) Olympic Tribune. 



"Dr. Dean told of the experience of Messrs. Blanchard, Bissel and 

 himself on a trip to Crackerville, some eight miles from the head of 

 the Elwha River last summer. Fish were so plentiful that one man 

 could catch all the three of them could eat, and moreover, he could 

 catch them in an hour or less before breakfast in the morning. 



"At Elkhorn, a famous fishing ground, they found a party of 

 Seattle 'sports' who had been catching the limit or more every day 

 for the week past. They had fully 250 pounds of trout in sight, some 

 in a smoke-house and more lying around rotting, a disgrace to them 

 and a shock to every angler possessing the least sense of decency. 

 And the pity of it is that the law, according to Game Warden Pike, 

 cannot reach them. 'At the legal limit of 30 pounds a week,' said 

 Mr. Pike, 'a party of six people out eight days may have 360 pounds 

 of rainbow trout piled up and rotting, and yet be within the letter 

 of the law.' " 



Really, is it not strange that the anglers of America are as heed- 

 less as very many of them are of the ultimate fate of the game fishes 

 of America, as their heedlessness is registered in wickedly destructive 

 bag limits? 



