Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1910 — The Fisherman’s Test. [ARTICLE]

The Fisherman’s Test.

"How do you know," this man asked of the man hauling on the seine, “whether the fishes you catch are up to the limit fixed by the law? Have to put a tape line on some of them?” "Well, no," said the fisherman, “we don’t exactly have to go to that trouble. We have an easier way measuring them than that. "Every fisherman has sawed In the seat of the boat little notches of the right distance apart to Indicate the lawful length at which fish may be taken, and when he takes out of the net a fish that doesn’t look much too long he lays Its nose against one of these notches and its tall against the other. “If It touches the notches, why, Into the basket goes the fish; buW( it doesn’t, why, then the fifth goes over board.”