How to use the Landing -net. 79 



net rim or bow, from hole to hole, just deep enough to 

 hold a double waxed thread. Next take a needle, not 

 too thick, as it will have to pass twice through each 

 hole, and double tailor's thread, well waxed, and be- 

 ginning from the outside to the in, take up a loop of 

 the net, and pass the needle back to the outside, then 

 along the groove, and then again through to take up 

 another loop or loops, and back again and so on, until 

 all the loops are taken up, and each pulled into, or just 

 through to the outside of the bow, and fasten off securely. 

 All that is now left to do is to tie or wrap the flat piece 

 of iron attached to the male screw securely to the bow, 

 over the splice, with well-waxed thread, and your net 

 head is then ready to screw on to the shaft. Paint and 

 varnish the rim and shaft any colour you fancy ; black 

 or green is, perhaps, the most sportsmanlike ; and when 

 dry it is ready for use. 



The Proper Use of the Landing-net when Angling. 



IT is very surprising that so few Anglers really know 

 how to use this instrument in a sportsmanlike style. 

 Indeed, the proper use of it seems to be hardly attainable 

 by some, who in other respects have some pretensions to 

 be experienced Fly-fishers; they, therefore, deprecate 

 the use of it. Often has the writer been amused while 

 following one of these worthies in his frantic efforts to get 

 the fish into his net pursuing the fish now here now there 

 poking it after him as he made desperate efforts to get 

 away, but never once holding the rod up or attempting 

 by it to guide the fish to the net at one time pulling 

 him away with the rod and line, then thrusting the net 

 after him, for no other purpose, apparently, than to make 

 the fish still more crazy, till at last he has cast it away 

 altogether, and resorted to the juvenile method of haul- 



