ii 4 MAKING A FISHERY. 



shown on sketch (Fig. IV.) It should be screwed 

 on to a strong ash handle, or, better still, on 

 the point of an old, stiff, three-jointed jack 

 rod. 

 Extermina. According to the experience, however, of the 



tion of pike ... 



impossible. best keepers, a combination of nets, trimmers, 

 and wires, each persistently used in the place 

 and under the conditions best suited to it, will 

 be found the most efficacious means of keeping 

 down these pests. The details of the netting 

 were fully explained in the last chapter, and 

 in this it is intended to give the necessary 



Fig. IV. 



instructions for the use of the trimmer and wire. 

 No means, however, yet devised will absolutely 

 eradicate pike from a river, so that in a properly 

 managed trout stream the keepers must never 

 cease from their efforts to catch and destroy 

 every one they see by any means in their power. 

 Even if it were possible to kill down all one's 

 pike, it must be remembered that every one 

 of us is certain to suffer from the neglect of 



