Advertisements. 



HERBERT E. HOUNSELl, LIMITED, 



PELICAI WOKKS, BRIDPORT, Eff&LAID. 



PRICE LIST, 1884. 

 TERMS Nett Cash. Delivered in London, Liverpool, Plymouth, 



Cowes, or Bristol. 



All sorts, Mounted or not Mounted in Stock. Seines, Drift and other Fishing Nets of all 



descriptions, made and mounte i to order. 



Full Size Net Hammocks complete, especially recommended for Yachts and Camping Out, 

 7s. Gd. each ; if barked, 8s. 6d. each. 



PLEASE ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO THE WORKS. 



' To set a trammel from a boat the following arrangements are required. Two buoy-lines 

 with corks at intervals, and stones at the ends about 25 Ibs. weight, must be provided ; to one 

 of which, close to the stone, make fast the lead-line of the trammel, and at the breadth of 

 the net, above the stone, make fast the cork-line, being careful not to stretch the trammel up 

 too high, lest the strain be taken by the network instead of the buoy-line, which, being 

 stronger than the netting, ought to take the whole of the strain. Place the buoy-line care- 

 fully in a coil with the stone by itself in the middle of the boat, and proceed to drop the cork- 

 line in the stern-sheets as near the stern as possible, but the lead-line should be in advance of 

 it about 3 feet when the slack net will naturally take its place between the two. When you 

 have thus arranged the whole net, p^ace the second buoy -line convenientlv. together with the 

 ptone, on one side of the net, having first secured the head and foot -lines, as mentioned 

 above, to the buoy-line, which you are now to throw overboard, and then proceed to lower 

 the stone with care and deliberation to the bottom, It is always better that two should be 

 in the boat on these occasions, a? one can pull slowly whilst the other pays out the net. A 

 trammel should always be shot with, and not across, the tide, for if the latter mode were 

 adopted the force of the current would tend to depress the net towards the ground, and 

 thereby injure its efficiency. A trammel of 40 fathoms length will be found quite large 

 enough for general use, and if two of these nets be required they should not exceed 30 

 fathoms each, as they are then very convenient for river fishing, nnd for sea work a long 

 net is at once made by joining the two together. Trammels and others should be 

 epread on a clean shingle beach or grass field, or hoisted up to dry after using, and all weeds 

 picked carefully out ; they should likewise be barked, in common with other nets, at least 

 once a season. All broken meshes should be at once repaired, as " a stitch in time saves 

 nine." Many yachts on coming to anchor of an evening in a roadstead set this net : it 

 should, if shot at six or seven, be hauled at about half-past nine p.m.. it may then be shot 

 again and haiiled at daylight. If left the whole time without examination' the fish will 

 probably be devoured by Crab", Squid, &c., to which the Red Mnllet generally are the first to 

 fall victims.' Wilcock's " Sea Fisherman," page 225, 4th Edition. 



