NETTING. 97 



The advantages derived from dragging two 

 nets in place of one, especially if the upper one 

 is a trammel, cannot be too strongly insisted 

 upon. In working upon this improved method, 

 the number of pike that strike the heavy drag 

 net and escape, either by finding a way over 

 the top line, between the corks, or by forcing 

 a way through the meshes, is quite surprising. 

 Under the old method every one of these got 

 clean away. Now, however, the jaunty air with 

 which they gaily swim up stream, no doubt con- 

 gratulating themselves on their escape, to find 

 themselves helplessly entangled in the meshes 

 of the sheeting of the trammel, which their own 

 rush up stream, combined with the downward 

 movement of the net, has driven through the 

 walling, makes the situation almost comical. 

 The only disadvantage of the trammel is that 

 a number of trout and grayling, especially small 

 ones, which have eluded the heavy drag net, 

 are bagged, and, unless great care is taken in 

 freeing them from the fine meshes there is likely 

 to be serious mortality among store fish. 



To carry out netting on these lines it is Number of 

 desirable to have not less than six strong, willing required, 

 men — one to each end of each net. It may 

 appear to a casual reader that four would be 

 sufficient, as after setting the stop net the 

 two men in charge have apparently nothing to 



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