When I came back empty-handed, a few hours later, trout and landing-net were gone.

On the Test I thought it seemly to carry a landing-net.

I have since fished Clearburn from a boat, but it was not a day of rising fish, and no big ones came to the landing-net.

I tried to unship my landing-net from my button-hole.

I got my rod that was leaning against the tree, took the bait-can and landing-net, and walked out onto the dam.

Where is my landing-net?

It was Fidele Barbey with a big creel strapped to his chest, and long-handled landing-net.

We had driven from a place about five miles distant, and we had not driven three hundred yards before I remembered that we had forgotten the landing-net.

Alas for the knot that breaks, and for the iron that bends; for the lost landing-net, and the gillie with the gaff that scrapes the fish!

On the occasions when they are not dour they rise very pleasant and free, but, in these brief moments, it is not of legends and folklore that you are thinking, but of the landing-net.

I saw Portland fall off a log fence, break the overhanging bank, and clatter down to the pebbles, all sand and landing-net, and I dropped on a log to rest for a moment.

Poetical fishers try to make people believe these fallacies; perhaps they impose on themselves; but if one would really enjoy landscape, one should leave, not only the fly-book and the landing-net, but the rod and reel at home.

He was holding, instead of a rod, something that might have been a landing-net which some fishermen use, but which was much more like the ordinary toy net which children carry, and which they generally use indifferently for shrimps or butterflies.

Many a happy day we had there, on loch or stream, with the big sea-trout which have somehow changed their tastes, and to-day take quite different flies from the green body and the red body that led them to the landing-net long ago.

My coat was hung on the nearest bush; the landing-net lay in the shade across a rock, the end of the handle wedged under a root, and I dropped my two trout into that and covered them from the sun with ferns and moss.

He was perched precariously on the very edge of the precipice waiting for puffins to fly past, and when one came within reach he swung his long-handled fleygastong (which is like a landing-net on the end of a four-metre pole) to intercept the bird.

We had no landing net, and nothing to cut the line with.

When used by anglers to help land fish they are called landing nets.

A third stood between them with a landing net.

Use a large landing net, somewhat larger than the size of fish you hope to catch.

They are, however, very hardy fish who will fight right until you slip your landing net under them.

As the trout began to tire, I fumbled for the landing net.

They got their rods and landing nets together and set off for home.

It looks like a landing net covered by a cloth.'

They simply dipped a landing net into the current and waited for a herring to appear in it.

His landing net hung by a hook from his belt.

Then I fetch my rod, landing net, loaf and rod-rest.

My chair and everything apart from the rod, landing net and loaf, are left up the bank.

There was a prayer that when we ended up in the "Lord's great landing net," we might be "big enough to keep."

However, after a lengthy arm-aching battle just seven common finished in the landing net, the heaviest taking the scales to 7-1-0.

When a hand net is used by an angler to help land a fish it is called a landing net.

After a series of ever-shortening runs, it finally rolled over, where I scooped it up with a landing net.

You can watch the setting of the hook, and learn by what means his golden scales are to be meshed in our landing net.'

I also know of several productive bream waters where the bream never show themselves at all until they are being brought to the landing net.

Amidst the usual panic that surrounds such occasions, I tried to keep calm and asked Mother to hand me the landing net.

Nick stood up on the log, holding his rod, the landing net hanging heavy, then stepped into the water and splashed ashore.

No landing net.

And there are the tatters of the landing net with which he landed his first respectable fish, something over nine inches as he recalls.

She added conversationally, 'That landing net of yours was a marvellous way to catch him.'

She was shot off less than thirty seconds after Bauer, and bounced into the landing net just as he was climbing down the rope ladder.

He rolled over, struggling desperately, and realised he was as thoroughly trapped as any fish in a landing net.