LANDING NETS, GAFFS, TACKLE BOXES, ETC. 



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thereabouts, depending on the style and quality. Some 

 frames and handles are sold without nets, and the cost of a 

 net must be added to them. 



FOLDING PATTERN LANDING NETS. 

 1 Barnes, Folded ; 2 Barnes, extended ; 3 Dorsal Fin 

 (head Springs out Straight and Slips into Handle) ; 4 Collaps- 

 ing, Jointed Handle; 5 St. Lawrence. 



Regarding the use of a landing net, like in most other 

 things, there is a right and a wrong way. The proper way is 

 to play the fish until he is fully exhausted and gives up fight- 

 ing, then submerge the net and lead the fish over it. Never 



