NETTING. 10 1 



The ideal keeper should always be at the Keeping 

 point of danger ; he should seldom, if ever, netting. 

 raise his voice, and yet he must insist on 

 implicit and immediate obedience from every- 

 body concerned. The lessee of the fishing, if 

 present, should not interfere with the keeper, or 

 do anything likely to undermine his authority. 

 He can, however, do good service by taking off 

 the keeper's shoulders the most necessary and 

 important work of keeping accurate records of 

 the fish taken at each haul. He can, if he 

 likes, also undertake the duty of looking after 

 the trout and grayling in the cans, and see to 

 their being properly supplied with fresh water 

 until the nets have progressed far enough to 

 enable him to return them to the river. When 

 doing this he should be careful not to throw 

 in the fish with violence, or so that they should 

 fall flat on the water, as the concussion may 

 stun, or even kill them. He should make it 

 a rule to wait until all the fish returned to the 

 river have moved away from the side ; other- 

 wise the first loafer coming along is only too 

 likely to pick them up and knock them on the 

 head. 



It is well to map out the successive days' 

 netting so that each evening's work should, if 

 possible, terminate at a hatch. As a con- 

 siderable number of both coarse fish and 



