THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 13 
yet seen a person fishing in water waist high that stopped me from 
paying him a little visit.’’ 
Watching his efforts while crossing the creek, I thought how really 
few persons, in response to duty, would go to such inconvenient and 
dangerous lengths when the probabilities were that this particular 
fisherman was not violating the law at all. In the course of an hour 
the warden returned, and in his possession was the angler’s fishing 
tackle. This is ample evidence that this deputy has been on the job 
right and that the fish are getting the proper and needed protection 
under his diligence. Mr. Bremmer found in the basket of this angler 
seven fish, two being six inches long, while the others would not 
measure over four inches. The violator was taken to Scio, fined $25, 
and a good example to his numerous friends which attended the trial. 
The Commission’s report for Marion County for the past year 
showed 31 arrests with the attendant fines, amounting to $825. Some 
record! 
Thus, as I have already suggested, why not increase the efficiency 
of the protective powers of the Commission. There are plenty of fish, 
and if properly protected it is almost a surety that the streams will 
give up a satisfactory number from year to year. 
The closing of stocked streams and the increased angling license 
fee for propagation purposes will help save the angling pastime, but 
the fish hog will still exist, and the trout slaughtered by the many 
existing slaughtering devices, unless we have a force of more diligent 
and efficient wardens such as Mr. Roy Bremmer. 
THE TWO FISHERS 
By Verne Bricur, Beaverton, Oregon 
COUNTRY BOY. 
A clumsy willow fishin’-pole, 
A lazy creek meandering 
With here and there a deeper hole, 
A clumsy willow fishin’-pole. 
A ‘‘string of beauties’’ is the goal 
Of all his day-long wandering. 
A clumsy willow fishin’-pole, 
A lazy creek meandering. 
CITY MAN. 
A slender rod of split bamboo, 
A gleaming mountain torrent 
With pools like silver moonlight dew. 
A slender rod of split bamboo. 
An empty creel when the day is through 
These insects are abhorrent. 
A slender rod of split bamboo, 
A gleaming mountain torrent. 
