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nets shotild be set to -work. The best nets to use for 

 trout and greyliag it is most difficult to decide, as the 

 modes of netting differ in various rivers, and the net 

 that suits one water will not always suit another. 

 Some waters require small and light nets, and others 

 heavy and ponderous ones. As a rule, a net of stout 

 thread, or finest twine, double walled, with plenty of 

 lint in it, and well weighted, wiU be found to answer 

 best. If the net be from twenty-five to thirty-five 

 yards long, it wUl be long enough for most ordinary 

 rivers. It should be split in the middle so that two 

 fourteen or fifteen yard nets can be made of it, 

 these being handier for small streams, and answer- 

 ing as drag and stop nets; when it is required to 

 use the larger net, or the two together, the river will 

 be usually so large that a stop net cannot well be 

 used. If a stop net be used, however, it should be of 

 moderately stout twine, heavily walled, and well roped 

 and weighted. (KB. — On all nets the waUing should 

 be set on the ropes square and not diamond shape, 

 as they work better, and catch far more fish.) In weedy 

 rivers four or five half bricks should be tied on so as 

 to hang loosely to the lead Une, to prevent the net 

 from rolling up; but as a rule, particularly if the 

 water be at all heavy, swift and weedy rivers are very 

 difficult to net fish out of. The net should always. 



