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being charged nonresidents of the Province. The 
association has not yet passed its resolutions upon 
this subject, but if I venture to make a forecast 
from the opinions I have heard given by members 
of the association, I believe it likely that the con- 
vention will heartily indorse the action of the 
Government in charging a rod license fee and 
restricting the quantity of fish that can be exported 
by any one person. 
One of the arguments this association advances 
is the importance to the Province of Ontario finan- 
cially of its fish and game as an attraction to visitors 
from your country. I would point out to you that 
our game fishing has been very much injured by 
illegal netting, and one of the objects which the 
association has at heart is the stoppage of this. 
Among the reasons for the imposition of a rod 
license fee is, first, that such will provide the 
Government with statistics as to the number of 
persons coming each year to our country to fish, 
and thereby show the importance of maintaining 
good sport; second, such fees will form an annual 
revenue naturally gradually increasing in size and 
which can be devoted by the Government toward 
the expenses of forming and keeping up a more 
efficient corps of fishery overseers and game 
wardens than now exist, and thereby the gradual 
improvement of the fishing throughout the Prov- 
ince generally. 
Our citizens welcome you to the Province, al- 
though many complaints have been made as to a 
class of American sportsmen (?) who entirely dis- 
regard our fishery regulations as to the limit of the 
number of fish caught and the limit of size at which 
fish should be retained. Of course, the percentage 
of hog fishermen is probably as great among our 
own citizens as among yours, and we all know that 
the real sportsman from your country is just as 
averse to this sort of thing as is the real sportsman 
here. 
You state in your letter that your club has 
invested $10,000 near the Moon River. Does it 
not occur to you that if the fishing in your neighbor- 
hood is greatly improved, your buildings and real 
estate there (assuming you have such) must in- 
crease in value and also that your members will 
enjoy better sport? 
I would also point out to you that if, by better 
protection of our fish and game, the magnificent 
sport not now existing, and yet possible to produce 
in a few years, was in the possession of the authori- 
ties of this Province, it would soon attract to our 
country the richer classes of your citizens, who 
would insist upon very much better hotel accom- 
modation than now is provided. This demand 
would in the course of time be met by supply, and 
we would have built up what we most urgently 
require, namely, the highest class of summer and 
sportsmen’s hotels throughout the country, and, 
naturally, a still greater interest in fish and game 
would be displayed by the public generally and the 
Government. 
For these reasons, among many others that can 
be adduced, I would appeal to you to help this 
association in its efforts to improve the sport you 
seem to prize and come to this country for, and 
cheerfully pay the small rod license fee fixed by the 
Government, and, further, not only should your 
RECREATION 
own club observe, as you state in your letter you 
do, the fishery regulations of the country, but, as 
far as possible, you should influence all of your 
countrymen who pass your camp to do the same. 
Yours, etc., 
A. Ketiy Evans, 
August 9, 1906. Secretary. 

National Association of Scientific Angling 
Clubs 
During the international fly- and bait-casting 
tournament held in Kalamazoo, Mich., on 
August 3 and 4 a National Association of 
Scientific Angling Clubs was formed, the 
objects of which are, primarily, to perfect 
universal rules under which to conduct national 
or international tournaments, to promote 
interest in scientific angling through tourna- 
ment or contest casting, to guard against any 
evils of professionalism that may possibly arise, 
to assist in the propagation and. protection of 
game fishes and influence legislation toward 
this end, to promote the appreciation of true 
amateur sportsmanship among anglers and 
lend moral support to all moves toward true 
sportsmanship in all sports and to promote 
such social conditions as are incident to the 
sport of angling. 
The prevailing sentiment looks toward the 
maintenance of the absolute individuality of 
each club in its own affairs, contests, etc., but 
the general good of all in matters of interest to 
all. The management of the association is 
vested in an executive committee made up of 
the national officers elected and one representa- 
tive from each club which already has or may 
hereafter affiliate. 
Eight clubs are already affliated, as foilows: 
The Chicago Fly Casting Club, Fox River Val- 
ley Bait Casting Club, Grand Rapids Fly Cast- 
ing Club, Illinois Bait Casting Club, Kalama- 
zoo Bait and Fly Casting Club, Kansas City 
Bait and Fly Casting Club, Racine Fly Casting 
Club and San Francisco Fly Casting Club. 
—A cordial invitation is extended to all angling 
clubs and anglers to correspond with the presi- 
dent or secretary relative to their joining the 
association as a club or forming clubs eligible 
to membership. Provision will also be made 
for individual membership where the formation 
of a club is not feasible. 
The officers elected for the current year are: 
President, H. Wheeler Perce, Chicago Fly 
Casting Club; first vice-president, B. L. Shutts, 
Kalamazoo Bait and Fly Casting Club; second 
vice-president, J. W. Bramhall, Kansas City 
Bait and Fly Casting Club; third vice-president, 
Fred. J. Wells, Fox River Valley Bait Casting 
Club; fourth vice-president, Walter D. Mans- 
field, San Francisco Fly Casting‘iClub;*secre- 
tary,'H. E. Rice, Illinois Bait Casting Club, and 






