How disappointing. He doesn't necessarily expect someone from away to know the state of the river in which he's trying to fish, but the locals that likely dressed him and gave him the gear he needed should have warned him. They should have made sure he knew which places he was allowed to fish, and in which places such things were forbidden. Though he supposes they can't be entirely to blame. If he wasn't told, then he should have simply asked for a safe place to fish. While fishing in these waters isn't always strictly forbidden, it's not worth explaining to someone who won't be around for when the fish are plentiful enough for the dragon to once again allow locals to fish in his river within reason. So for all intents and purposes, to this foreign man fishing is just entirely out of the question.

Perhaps if he returns in later years, the dragon will be feeling more generous.

Nam's eyes follow the net as the man pulls it from the river, relieved to see that there is not even so much as a rogue piece of vegetation caught up in it. "Many of your kind tend to get overzealous in their fishing and have made it a necessity." If a dragon of his size can manage to not snuff out the entire fish population while subsisting on them almost entirely, surely the humans can learn to control themselves.

"I am its guardian, yes."