AIL ALIVE O!

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 185, 22 July 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

AIL ALIVE O!

HOW EELS ARE CAUGHT IN ENGLAND. ■•fbw* oro roti going with those i iptements?” I impnrod of thn-e neo one evening on the ••! '»:«brx marsle's . ■‘Us b; gmn’ o-hri’ sir. replied onr • ftHefn. • ls, I rrmo with you, my pretty n on?” I flippantly rontinu.d, and tmy IsugWl. th" eld.-t bi* *N*' R '- v s°' !>.»<:«> pr'di. setthng th.' matter with Lio res; •• « ■»• ’ . , 'Yah-, if ! »’-A sir. ‘fhj niar-.h.*t consist oi pasture laml. intersected with treh 'water d'..---. Inland had Wn ro bimcd from tip w, ..nil th- Link- of th.' dike- ai • hmli. t> «u..rl a-giin-t flod-.n.: Alon- the t ,p *f on-' of ti e-o hanks wc made our V3J ci i ! ‘ Ifl f*‘ IiCOS a t f FtTplCTl t IR~ tervak. As strode _ alone I ’JU’ initiated into the mysteries of the itnpUrwnus - ar. i d by mr companions. Hm •re '.re two wars in which the are canzht. sp-’arin? and netting. Tk» spear has three prongs, nearlv a foot m length The prongs are flat and the inn r »<b-'"- s.errat-d. so that th.t ecl, ou<- fared vp between the ouinot wriggle down again. The spear-hardlo consists of a long, thin po’e, se:neum<.-s .-ver sixteen teet m li. . *.i» Another man er* tries a net with a h’rtry rim, made from a flat strip of iron. On * - ; 'lc of tlu rim is straight, to allow of the not lying evenly on the bottom of th- dike when held in position bv means of its long handle. T : .-j let-' of the netting outfit consists of a polo to which is attached 3 loose pi-joe of lent net. The purpose of tins implement is to gijr the surfa< n of th=» water a serie.- o'Jp’tsoundmg smacks. (onnencipg some yards from where the no' he* >n the bottom, tilted on to ite straight side, the water is st.slick smartly at -hurt intervals, each time a tittle n ai. i •-<> th- net. the o! :.s-t bring to h i ;itteii th" fish along until they ar- -mn into it. rr’n ci»rri»s a sack, sinnjx from hi* ahoidder >y a cord. Ik hopes to •_wi it well filled with a writhing mass <jF o®Lb* After a ml? or more we stop at a dike wiii.-h. to the professional eyes of my companions ought to yield good Sport. Til l two who are going to use net c;o off tn the left, and the spearman awl I remain to work the bank in the opposite direction. Into the middle of th « water, and well down into the mud he plunges his sp«or half-a-do* n times in as many «sr&. At the seventh attempt a frantically -truggling eel, of the common variety. « brought to the -urfiae and swung round on to the bank. It is h«l l through the middle by the teeth of the prongs, which act like the barb of a fish-hook. _ A sharp tug. and my mompanion has it out of the spear into hi* _ x . On wo go. th- p’ltrgnig of the =p«ar gcaerallv producing negative resnks: but rrj-'t ; ns th-re is a run of Imk. foer or tiro pels ‘King raptured m sue pipe from my po’tch 1 taM im -. m nd"so XoXly that I have to pull tCth cons'derable strengt. that ln /t.J’ u 7^r-hoad S cost five warns me that tm i b ob _ Uidlings a piece and haro tame' f ro-u J-ondo. like 1 ff-r arnm. at** 3t soin*'- * . spear, I taJ* arc at W ork. and where _th- n ; = rpMllt n f sm just i' , , - r . th,, net the uio~t w ,tl, «ix or seven K-» ’I .. «ds of th:.*’ kinds -I »«■ l->- ' "J” '±i

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