Paddling under Palmettos — page 26: what you’re looking at

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Paddling Under Palmettos. 23 hold of his canoe and finally draw out a net with lead weights attached. ‘Ah! I see—the Spanish cast-net,”’ he muttered. He had never seen one used and watched his com- panion with interest. It was just growing dusk, and the mullet had sought just such sheltered nooks in which to carry on their mysterious and apparently meaningless acrobatic feats. Dick waded out until the water was perhaps two feet deep, his careful eye noting the surface ahead for signs of a school. He held one of the leads between his teeth, and had gathered several loops of the remainder in his right hand to be released altogether. The round cast-net is universally used through the South. It is in two sizes, the larger or Spanish net being generally for fishermen and difficult to cast. Along the bottom are the leads. Leading-strings run from these up to a horn ring in the center of the net. It is cast with a peculiar rotary movement by the aid of arms, head, and body, falling flat and fully ex- tended upon the surface of the water, when the leads Gomicbooks (E(0) m