

THE LAGG-NAT 169 



Then we had the Lagg-nat, or stationary net (with us 

 called the Stand-garri), which answers to our flew. As 

 with the latter, it was provided with Grimma, or walling 

 (often on both sides), the purpose of which is, that 

 when the fish strikes the net, and carries that portion with 

 which it comes in contact into the walling, it may then 

 be embedded in a sort of purse, whence retreat is next to 

 impossible. 



The Lagg-nat is used as well during the winter as the 

 summer, and at the former season by something like the 

 same process as the drag-net. 



And as fish usually follow the direction of the shore, it 

 ought not to be placed, so Swedish fishermen tell us, parallel 

 with, but at right angles thereto. 



The dimensions of the Lagg-nat, and the size of its meshes, 

 vary according to the kind of fish which it is intended to 

 capture. That in use with us for salmon and trout, was 

 about sixty feet in length, and its depth twelve feet. The 

 upper telna was provided with ten to twelve of the flarn, 

 or floats spoken of, and the lower line (placed exactly oppo- 

 site to the flarn),. with pungar, or purses, formed of the 

 bark of the birch-tree, and filled with pebbles. The flarn 

 had only sufficient buoyancy, however, to keep the net 

 properly distended, but not to lift it from the bottom, close 

 to which it was always kept, and frequently at a depth of 

 several fathoms from the surface of the water. 



The Skott-nat, likewise a flew in its way, was also provided 

 with walling ; but it differs from the Lagg-nat in this respect, 

 that whereas in the latter, the fish capture themselves, 

 they on the contrary are driven, per force, into the Skott- 

 nat. 



