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handle, should be strong, and especially where frame and 

 handle meet. 



For use when wading the streams the net should be of 

 the same kind but should have a very short handle with a 

 rubber cord to hang from the neck. This keeps the net up 

 out of the way when fishing, but the elastic cord allows the. 

 angler to reach out to the length of his arm to net the fish. 



Some of these nets have wooden frames and solid 

 handles. Some have detachable handles and many fold up 

 or collapse in one way or another, to make them more easily 



A Banding Net for use While Wading Streams. 



transported. Some have hollow handles in which the frame 

 may be placed when not in use; others have jointed handles= 

 One may be coiled up into a very small size, but by far the 

 greatest number of wading nets simply fold the handle into 

 the net ring or frame. There are too many kinds and they 

 differ too much to be described fully here, but one need only 

 look through the catalogues of one of the large dealers in 

 fishing tackle to see descriptions, and should have no trouble 

 finding something to suit his requirements. Landing nets 

 range in value from thirty or forty cents up to three-fifty or 



