Identifier: withflyrodcamera00samu (find matches)
Title: With fly-rod and camera
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Samuels, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1836-1908
Subjects: Fishing Fishing
Publisher: New York, Forest and Stream Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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which, under certain small restrictions, people livingon the shore may net all the salmon they desire, or cancatch, and taking this into consideration, is it to be won-dered at that some of those, who living on the river, yet,unfortunately for them, above tide-water, should think itno more than fair that they should get a few of the fishthat escape their more fortunate tide-water neighbors whomay net them legally ? Many of these so-called poachers are hard-workingfarmers, and mighty hard scratching they have for a living,I can attest, who do not taste any fresh meat sometimesfor a week or more at a stretch. Now, I can under-stand just how they feel, for I have talked with manyof them, and I tell you, Frere, a good many others wouldspear and net if they were situated as they are. Here is a river runninof through their farms, wellsay, and salmon passing up nightly. The people aboutthe mouth of the river on the bay shore have a legalright to take the fish with the net, but the moment the
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In Camp. 46 PVitli Fly-Rod aiui Camera. salmon reach the water which passes through the land ofthese people, the law prohibits the settlers from doing atany time just what their neighbors may do almost with-out restraint, for three months and over. Now, of course,I am not excusing spearing and seining; not for an in-stant am I, for I know that if it were permitted in thestreams, the salmon would be exterminated. No, I amof the opinion that gill-netting on the shores should becurtailed very greatly, even if it is allowed at all. I am, for one, selfish enough to wish that surfacefly-fishing alone might be the legal method for takingsalmon, but so long as gill-netters and tide-water seinersand weirsmen are allowed to kill without limit, as theyare now by law in the open season, the people who liveon the rivers are bound to have a share, too. The tide-water netters have too great privileges/said Frere, who had been quietly listening to the con-versation. That is just it, I replied, cut do

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