The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-07-29
$500 PER YEAR
l.. X. HART ADDRESSES A
WORD TO LOCAL SPORTSNEN.


Friend Sportsman:
Billy Lynn, County Game Warden.
has been spending most of his time
lately planting fish in the streams
near Leavenworth according to the
plans of the County Game Commits
sion One of these trips up the Che
wawa, he stopped a couple of fisher
men who were fishing in "A small creek
| that runs into the Chewawa and took
four small trout from one of them.
each of the four trout being under
| sin inches. The fisherman willingly
came to town with the Warden and
acknowledged his guilt before tn,
justice of the peace, paid his fine and
costs and departed.
| could give the name of the party
arrested and the amount of the ftc
imposed did | so desire, but that j.;
not my purpose. | desire to take this
opportunity to appeal to the sense Of
fairness in the minds of the sports
men generally. The County Game
Commission are spending about sew
enty-five per cent of the money re-
ceived from your licenses in the prop
agation of game end game fish, the
lal gest part of this money being
spent for game fish. Less than 25
PEI cent is spent for policing and
very nominal expense runs the office.
You can see that practically all of the
license money is spent directly toward
maintaining and bettering fishing
conditions. But, the efforts of the
Commission and Game Warden. as
well as the money received for L.
censes will be spent for nothing if
you hunters and fishermen will not b.
good sportsmen and protect your in
vestment
1t certainly can be no fun to catch
lingering trout and no pleasure to
display them to fellow fishermen.
neither are they fit to fry, for there
is not enough of them to Stink the
pam"
Please get this direct, boys. All
fry are planted in the small streams
that empty into the larger ones The
list of paintings will disclose this.
They are planted in the small stream
so that they can get chance to grow,
big enough to take care of them.
selves by the time they take to deep
L.
dolly will do to a bunch of small
fish and want to see the dolies all
caught out. They are worthless
fish. Then think of IA man spending
$l.5O to help plant these fry in these
small streams and then going out and
catching these fingerlings. Looks
simple, doesn't it?
However, we all make mistakes
some of them mistakes of Judgment
ard some mistakes of learning, and |
hope that | have made clear the eff.
ft TT of the Game Commission to give
YOU boys your moneys worth and
that this letter will appeal to your
fairness so that you will lend us a
hand instead of obstructing our eff
forts. You should remember that it
is your money, your fish and game.
and you are getting excellent result
foi the small sums you are spending.
Above all, don't be a Dolly. Every
one enjoys seeing you spend your
money like man, catching your fish
like a sportsman and giving the other
fellow who may fish the same stream
next year a fair chance.
With malice toward none and with
but the kindlest feeling toward all
lovers of the fishing game, wish to
assure you Sportsmen that | regret
exceedingly that which occurred and
which described in my first para
graph.
Yours very truly,
LIN II. HART,
County Game Commissioner.