20 MAKING A FISHERY. 



advanced to try and induce you to give more. 

 Let it be clearly understood that the answer to 

 your offer must be yes or no. Do not attach 

 any credence to the statement that there is 

 another man willing to give the rent asked. 

 This, if advanced, is clearly not true, as, if 

 such a man existed, the agent would long since 

 have refused your offer definitely and accepted 

 his. In fixing the figure of your offer, how- 

 ever, you should look at the question from a 

 liberal point of view, and make it, if anything, 

 rather on the side of being a trifle higher than 

 your estimate of the value. 

 Reservations If the proprietor desires to reserve any 



fishing rights on the water they should be 

 clearly set forth, and perhaps the best and 

 most explicit method of doing this is to offer 

 to let all his fishing rights, which should be 

 specified, with the exception of those reserved, 

 which should also be given in detail. This 

 subject of rights reserved by the freeholder 

 when letting is one which needs careful con- 

 sideration on the part of a fisherman taking 

 a lease. Some freeholders require a personal 

 right to fish whenever and wherever they wish, 

 and some even demand the additional right of 

 sending one or two friends. The argument 

 generally advanced to induce the future 

 lessee to accede to this is, that the proprietor 



by lessor. 



