Angling Notes From Abroad.

Otago Witness, Issue 1928, 2 November 1888, Page 28

Angling Notes From Abroad.

Seta Green, the great American pisciculturist, is dead. Clear-headed, firm, honest, plain, and unassuming, Seth Green devoted an allotted lifetime to a pursuit requiring exceptional ability and qualifications, which while promising no great rewards or emoluments 'at the outset brought him at the last both name, fame, and a competence. Steel fishing rods are now made, telescoping in form, lighter than lancewood, and absolutely unbreakable. The rod is boiled in oil and varnished so that it will not rust.

A 541b salmon was the heaviest taken this year in the Scotch rivers. It came from the Tay. This is what the American Angler has to say about the celebrated Jay Gould :— " There can be no doubt that angling as a gentleman's pastime will suffer from the fact that Jay Gould has gone fishing in the Catskills. As a matter of course, Jay Gould can no more be admitted to the Brotherhood of American Anglers than he can be elected to any reputable social club in this city or to membership in the New York Stock Exchange, many members of which honourable organisation regard his absence from State prison as an indication of the futility of our jurisprudence Nevertheless, the fact that; he can contaminate a mountain stream with his presence is a misfortune not unlike that which permits, of necessity, the presence of disreputable persons in public places elsewhere. Foftunately the same sort of prurient curiosity which recently surrounded the execution of ' Danny ' Lyons with a halo of cheap romance, has unearthed the whereabouts of Gould, and self-respecting anglers can easily avoid Roxbury till it shall again become a respectable resort for anglers." Fancy a colonial or English paper inserting a paragraph of this nature in its columns about a man whose millions run into two figures ! It might as well shut up shop without waiting for the jury's award of problematical damages. America for freedom of speech 1 Although I think a line should be drawn somewhere.