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drive any pike from the banks. It is barely possible 

 to drag too slowly, as the slower the nets go the more 

 effectually will they catch the pike. When the net 

 BB is within about twelve yards of the landing-place 

 all dragging will cease, and, at a signal from the 

 keeper, the man at the line b will draw the further 

 side of the net round to the landing-bank. The posi- 

 tion of the nets at this stage is shown in Fig. 61. 

 The lock-line will be gathered in so as to make a bag 

 of the entire net, and it will be lifted on to the bank. 

 Any trout in it will be turned into a can which has 

 been filled with fresh water, and the pike and other 

 coarse fish knocked on the head. The net BB is then 

 cleaned, and carried up to about ten yards above the 

 net AA, and there stretched across the river. 



Again, at the keeper's signal, the net AA is dragged 

 down until it is about twelve yards above the landing- 

 place. Simultaneously, the landing-lines of both nets 

 A A, the trammel and CC, the purse- or stop-net are 

 drawn in so that CC is carried round A A, as shown in 

 Fig. 62. AA is landed first and then CC, the fish 

 taken out, both nets cleaned, and the next- length is 

 then worked in precisely the same way. 



If there is any doubt in the keeper's mind as to the 



netting having been effectual. 



Dragging a length a or if by any chance a large 



second time. pike has been seen and is not 



in the nets, it is a good plan 

 to carry BB up to the starting-point and drag it down 

 again, leaving AA and the stop-net CC in the posi- 



