14-8 FisJdng in North Carolina. 



upon it as an ignominious way of taking fish. 

 It comes in mighty handy, however, on an ex- 

 tended outing alongside fishy waters. Often 

 when fish will not take bait, and food becomes 

 scarce the larder may be replenished by one 

 night's judicious netting. 



The ordinary gill net is most commonly used 

 in ponds. It should be of fine flax thread, the 

 mesh from 1 1-2 to 2 inches square, which will 

 gill almost any five poimd fish, and the nets 

 should be from 15 to 30 feet long, 4 to 6 feet 

 deep, without floats or sinkers, and stretched 

 taut between two stakes firmly driven into the 

 ground. 



Winter is the best season to use the gill net 

 because fish do not spawn then and terrapins 

 have gone to sleep. The nets should be fished 

 two or three times each night and taken out 

 stretched and dried every two days. 



Tor small streams the double funnel fyke net 

 is a very greedy catch in spring time when fish 

 run up stream hunting spawning grounds. 

 With wings like those on a partridge net, ex- 

 tending to either bank, it will take every living 



