AN angler's notes ON THE BEAVERKILL 



shoot, etc. All this is very unfortunate. It would be 

 a good thing for the fishermen if all the farmers from 

 Flint's docking to Voorhis's would form an association 

 and charge a fee to fish over the entire stretch, so much 

 per day or week, and in return for this the farmer 

 should build small ponds to keep the fry furnished by 

 the State for a year or so, and then run them into 

 the stream. 



A Limit. 



If that old Frank Forrester law, in force once upon 

 a time on Long Island, could have been made general 

 and enforced, what a blessing it would be to the angler 

 of to-day ! What slaughter there has been! Two men 

 killed 700 trout in one day, one man killed 250, another 

 200, and so on. One Decoration Day, at Sprague's, 

 enough trout to fill a wash-boiler were brought in. It 

 was then that Uncle Thee proposed that we all agree 

 to kill only eighteen trout a day hereafter. The sea- 

 son is too long; April 16th to August 31st is unreason- 

 able. July 15th should end it. How nice it would be 

 if one stream in New York was set aside for fly-casting 

 only, the same as is frequently done in Maine. To 

 think of the Beaverkill freed from sawdust and 

 reserved for fly-casting only. How ecstatic ! It is 

 almost too enjoyable a day-dream to permit yourself to 

 indulge in. 



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