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SCIENCE OF FISHING. 



You must also have a gauge stick like figure F, of a width 

 equal to one side of the squared mesh of the net you have 

 in mind. A one-inch square mesh, which would be two-inch 

 stretched mesh, would be one inch on each of its four sides 

 and you would want a gauge stick one inch wide. 



You will need a heavy line around the outside of your 



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Net Knots and Needles. 



net, no matter what kind you are making, so you can 

 stretch up a line a little longer than need be for the finished 

 article, then measure and see how many meshes will be re- 

 quired for the length. For instance, if your landing net 

 frame measures thirty inches in circumference, and you want 

 to make a one-inch square mesh, there will be thirty meshes 



