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MAKING A FISHERY. 



present, whether the men working the nets, the 

 lessee himself, or any friends and spectators, 

 that his orders must be scrupulously obeyed by 

 all and every one. Having arrived at the head 

 of the length of water to be netted, the keeper 

 selects a convenient place at the lower end of 

 the reach where it is moderately shallow, and 

 where, if possible, there is a good sloping bank 

 on which to land the nets. Here the purse net 

 is set as a stop net. The cork line should be 

 carried across, lifted well up, and the purse 



Fig. I. 



cleared, so that it lies evenly down the centre of 

 the stream. It must be secured to stakes, 

 or held by men, one on each bank, so that the 

 strain is not sufficient to raise the lead line from 

 the bed of the river. 



The trammel is set across the stream at the 

 upper end of the reach, and the drag net some 

 ten yards below it. Of course, care is taken 

 that the lead lines of both are on the bed of the 

 river, and the cork lines fully extended and none 

 of the corks foul of one another, or entangled in" 



