Young Brunette Girl With A Fishing Net Reveals In The Swampland With Trees

• Hand net
Hand nets are held open by a hoop and are possibly on the end of a long stiff handle. They have been known since antiquity and may be used for sweeping up fish near the water surface like muskellunge and northern pike. When such a net is used by an angler to help land a fish it is known as a landing net. In England, hand netting is the only legal way of catching eels and has been practised for thousands of years on the River Parrett and River Severn.
• Lave net
A special form of large hand net is the Lave net now used in very few locations on the River Severn in England and Wales. The Lave net is set in the water and the fisherman waits till he feels a fish hit against the mesh and the net is then lifted. Fish as large as Sturgeon have been caught in Lave nets.