Village Squire, 1977-01, Page 20THE
REL UCTANT
CONSER VA TIONIS T
BY ADRIAN VOS
I am a conservationist, reluctantly, but just the same a
conservationist. 1 would even let a shark off my hook. But let
me tell you about it, tell you why I don't catch trout or pike,
bass or shark.
When I was a little boy in my native Holland, there was no
money to buy a fishing pole. So if my brothers, friends and I
wanted to go fishing, we just went out and found ourselves a
fairly straight tree branch. For a line, my dad came to the
rescue. He took a spool of his strongrest thread, the kind he
It's not just that he didn't catch any prize
fish, he didn't catch any fish at all.
18, Village Squire/January 1977