FISHING Marine Fresh Water by Fire Nets Hooks

Description: Print Specifics: Type of print: Steel engraving - Original antique printYear of printing: not indicated in the print - actual: 1844Publisher: Johann Georg Heck Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Dimensions: 9 x 11.5 inches, including blank margins (borders) around the image. Paper weight: 3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin) Reverse side: Blank Note: 1. Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print is rectangular. Slight shape distortion was caused by the camera. Legend to the illustrations in the print: Fig. 1-8. Fresh water fishing, 9-14. Marine fishing 1. FISHING WITH HOOK AND LINE. The general principles of bait-fishing are so well known that it is scarcely necessary to mention them here. The apparatus is exceedingly simple and within the reach of almost every one, but in many cases great skill is necessary to capture the so-called game fish, The instrument usually employed for hand fishing is the rod and line ( fig. 1) held in the hand, and the bailed hook cast into the water. Sometimes a swimmer or float is attached to the line, to show more readily the attack of the fish, or to regulate the depth to which the bait ought to sink. The bait varies with the fish to be captured, with the season, and with the condition of the water. It may consist of a worm, caterpillar, grasshopper, bit of meat, small fish, frog, and indeed animal matter of almost any kind. Sometimes a number of short baited lines are attached to a longer one, which is then stretched out in the water, and allowed to remain over night. 2. FISHING WITH NETS AND WEIRS. This mode of fishing affords more abundant results than the preceding, but its machinery is much more complicated and expensive. The forms of nets are very various, differing with the species of fish, locality, &c. A simple kind is that known as the scoop or hoop-net, consisting of a netted bag attached to a hoop with a long handle ( fig. 2). The dip-net is a square piece of netting, stretched by the corners between two semicircular hoops, which cross each other at right angles, and are suspended from a long pole. The fish-weir is represented in figs. 4 and 5, the set-net in fig. 6, the seine or haul-net in fig. 3. Fig. 7 shows the construction of what is usually called a fish-pot or basket. The casting-net is much used on the Southern sea-coast of the United States. This consists of a circular net with weights around the circumference, and a long rope attached to the centre. This is cast into the water, and the circumference sinking more rapidly than the centre, any fish which happen to be beneath are- immediately inclosed. 3. FISHING BY FIRE. This consists in attaching an iron vessel containing burning splints to the bow of a boat, or carrying it by hand close to the water. The light attracts the fish, which are then taken either by hand of by means of scoop-nets, spears, gigs, &c. (fig. 8). It will already have been understood by our readers that fishing includes not only the capture of fishes, but of aquatic animals in general. Under this head, therefore, may be given the catching of whales, crabs, oysters, lobsters, &c., in addition to that of herring, cod, tunny, mackerel, &o. Figs. 13 and 14, present incidents in cod-fishing. Oysters are taken by means of the rakes (fig. 11), and sometimes by a kind of dredge (fig. 12). Crabs and lobsters are caught in pots (fig, 10) baited with meat. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. eBay seller since 1998.Five-star service.

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