68 MAKING A FISHERY. 



him busily engaged in pushing theweeds through 

 a hatch, and, as likely as not, he is met by a 

 point blank refusal or even impertinent answer 

 when he asks that the nuisance should be 

 stopped for a few hours. 



One is often asked how to remedy this. The 

 best plan, if both banks are rented by the lessee, 

 is to construct a good solid weed rack across 

 the water at the upper boundary. This will stop 

 the heavy masses of weed, and in time compel 

 the proprietor above to take them out. If this 

 is impracticable, and in any case as a valuable 

 adjunct, the weed net can be used. It is a 

 heavy large meshed one, such as bullock netting, 

 three or four feet deep, well leaded at the lower 

 side, and long enough to stretch across the 

 river with a pronounced bow. It is placed at 

 any point where the stream is not too rapid, and 

 attached to strong posts on either bank. At first 

 the heavy masses only are stopped by it, but in 

 time as they accumulate and form a solid barrier 

 on the surface, every particle of drifting weed is 

 effectually prevented from passing through. If 

 at any time the strain should appear to be 

 approaching breaking point, by loosing the rope 

 at one end, the entire mass will be liberated ; 

 after which, of course, the net can be replaced. 

 These heavy masses of weeds going down in a 

 body will only spoil one's chance for say a 



