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the first one, meets the second, which is very slack, and 

 carries a portion of it through the third net, thus 

 producing a bag or pocket beyond it. The more the 

 fish struggles the more it becomes " trammeled '' ; and 

 sometimes, in its efforts to escape, it carries the pocket 

 back through the adjoining large mesh, making its case 

 still more hopeless. The advantage of a walling on 

 each side of the slack net is twofold : it obliges the fish 

 to strike it just where it can be forced through the 

 large mesh beyond it, and it makes the trammel equally 

 effective if the fish strike it on one side or the other. 

 In Cornwall the trammel is called a " tumbling-net." 



It is very much used at Guernsey for catching the 

 red mullet for which that island is celebrated ; and it 

 might be employed with advantage on many parts of 

 our own coast, but its apparently complicated nature is 

 against its being generally adopted by the ordinary 

 class of fishermen. 



