CHAPTER VII. 



Difficult 

 places to net. 



WIRING. 



S shown in the last chapter, although 

 netting is the most efficacious method 

 of destroying pike wholesale, yet a 

 certain proportion of these pests do manage to 

 elude the nets. There are also places where 

 netting is almost, if not quite, impossible ; 

 places where the growth of weeds is too dense, 

 or the stream too rapid or too deep for the 

 nets. Then, too, the reaches flowing past 

 gardens of cottages or small houses, where 

 from time immemorial the river bed has been 

 used as the receptacle for every worn-out or 

 broken article of hardware, crockery, or glass, 

 until it has become a perfect chevaux de /rise, 

 over which a net dragged for a few yards would 

 be quickly destroyed. 



Then, again, in the hatch holes, which 

 generally harbour some of the largest pike, 

 there are sometimes stakes studded with tenter 



