The sea-fisherman: comprising the chief methods of hook and line fishing in the British and other seas, and remarks on nets, boats, and boatingProfusely illustrated with woodcuts on leads, baited hooks, nets and boats, etc., and detailed descriptions of the same . d, instead of the ugly, unhandybeam, they have for small trawls, say up to the size of twenty-five feet beams, substituted i^-inch galvanised wrought-ironpipes, which are always clean, arid take up very little room ondeck. Size of Mesh.—The size of the mesh of trawl-nets must benot less than if inch from knot to knot, and any other n
The sea-fisherman: comprising the chief methods of hook and line fishing in the British and other seas, and remarks on nets, boats, and boatingProfusely illustrated with woodcuts on leads, baited hooks, nets and boats, etc., and detailed descriptions of the same . d, instead of the ugly, unhandybeam, they have for small trawls, say up to the size of twenty-five feet beams, substituted i^-inch galvanised wrought-ironpipes, which are always clean, arid take up very little room ondeck. Size of Mesh.—The size of the mesh of trawl-nets must benot less than if inch from knot to knot, and any other netadded to a trawl must have meshes of 2 inches from knot 240 THE OTTER-TRAWL. to knot. From knot to knot means along the side of thesquare. The Otter-Trawl (fig. 73).—The otter-trawl has received itsname from the two boards which take the place of the irons inkeeping the mouth of the trawl extended. This kind of trawl is often preferred by amateurs to thebeam-trawl, as it is much more portable, for the otters beingdetached, the whole may easily be stowed away on board. The beam is here (see the cut) superseded by a number ofcorks, which support the upper edge of the trawl and keep themouth open. The otters of a trawl which I had the opportunity of in-. Fig. 73.—Otter Trawl. specting were of the following dimensions : length two feet twoinches, width one foot six inches, and two inches in thickness,of elm, weighted with iron keels just sufficient to sink them, theiron being curved like the fore-foot of a boat, that it may passeasily over the ground. This trawl was highly spoken of by the crew as very success-ful, and was used in a vessel of about twenty tons. I have heard it alleged that it is not equal to the beam trawl,as it is said to collapse if towed at all across the tide ; but I donot make this observation from my own experience. Theeffectiveness of an otter-trawl is much increased by lashing a THE DREDGE. 241 piece of galvanised chain along the ground-rope. These
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