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2) 2 stalces, one at the end of tlie trap and one at the end of the leader. 

 The traps eau tish there, either fiom one side, when the only existing 

 arm Hes in the continuation of the leader, or from tvvo sides; in the latter 

 case they have no arms, and the leader is generally coutiuued iuto the 

 trap to tlie second bow. 



This method is mostly used on deeper water, to save stakes, wliich 

 are sometimes c. 60 feet long, and, most frequently, it is used in the 

 outmost part of the "Stader" only, when the latter go out on deep water, 

 i. e. 6 — 9 fathoms. (For instance: the southwest part of Funcu.) 



3) 3 (or 4) stakes: stakes being placed by the arms. This is the method 

 most commonly employed. 



4) While the leader in the previous cases is loose, i. e. supported only above 

 by the head-line at the end nearest to the shore, the leader, at plaees 

 where there is not too much drifting sea-weed or such like, may be sup- 

 ported both above and below, by placiug a stretchingstick at the end of 

 it, aud this stick is placed closely along the leader-stake (Horne-Land). 

 This method forms the transition to the following, where the leader is 

 not loose, not stoned below or furnished with fioats above, as in all the 

 preceding traps, but where 



5) tlie leader is fixed and furnished with stretchingsticks for about every 8 

 feet. These sticks are fixed along the stakes, properly so called. The 

 leader, in this way, becomes firmly stretched out from the bottom to near 

 the surface of the water. This method is employed only on low water 

 (c. 2 fathoms)7~and is in use only near Fænø and up towards Treldenæs. 

 The traps are always very large, c. 8 feet in the fore-bow. Sometimes the 

 inmost part of the leader, on quite low water, is uot made of net-work 

 but of "Flager", made of wattling or similar materials. This is seen 

 also on low water in traps of other sorts. Where these traps are used 

 in the narrows of the Little Belt, two are often placed immediately beside 

 one another, so that they fish from the same side. The arrangement, 

 with the firmly distended leader and the two side-traps, reminds you 

 strongly then of a genuine old-fashioned "Aalegaard"'''); only the leader 

 is of net-work, and the bridge is missing. Indeed, they are called "Gaard" 

 in the Little Belt. A form which still more approaches the old-fashioned 

 "Aalegaard" is used, for instance, in Svendborgsund where 



6) the whole leader is made of ''Flager' ' (wattlework), and where there are 

 often two traps beside one another at the outer end, which — as in an 



*) Literally eelyard. 



