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“THE IDLE ANGLER.” 
GoveRNoR HuGHEs, of New York, it is just 
announced will spend the next two weeks visit- 
ing the State fish hatchery, near Saranac, in 
the Adirondacks. Simultaneously comes the 
news that the New York State Fish, Game and 
Forest Commission is planning to make Lake 
George an ideal fishing ground. Let us hope, 
says the New York Fishing Gazette, that this 
is the awakening of a piscatory crusade which 
will in due time extend to the sadly neglected 
commercial fisheries of the Empire State. It 
is, of course, pleasing to learn that Lake George 
has been recently stocked with black bass fry 
and that the laws governing the ten inch limit 
will now be vigorously enforced by the newly 
created State Fish Warden William H. Burnett. 
But these are glad tidings which are only of 
import to the idle angler. What is more badly 
needed is official action which will promote the 
interests of those whose livelihood depends pon 
a decidedly improved condition of the State 
waters. 


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