CHAP. II. 



Landing-nets. 



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be held in the right fashion. Your native attendant will always put the 

 net under the fish and then lift the net at right angles to himself, so that 

 the whole weight of the fish is at right angles to the handle. Not the 

 strongest landing-net going can stand that long, the majority will be ruined 

 in a single day's fishing, the weight of the fish bending the iron of the 

 landing-net close up to where it is screwed into the handle. Directly the 



fish is in the net the handle should be brought into a perpendicular position, 

 and the fish lifted out with the handle all the time perfectly perpendicular. 

 There is then no strain on the iron. There is also no danger of the fish 

 getting out of the net because, if the bag of it is long enough, the fish will 

 fall into the bottom of the net well below the mouth of it, and is really more 

 safely netted than if the net were held out at right angles." 



I have been asked how to put a landing-net under a fish, whether so 

 as to take him head foremost or tail foremost. Presuming that he is a 



