netsman

There is a selection process for those who want to apply for a coracle salmon net licence and this ensures that any netsman who has taken out a licence before 2007 would continue to receive a licence if an application was submitted, she said.

Archive 2008-02-01 Dylan Jones-Evans 2008

The objection of most people to this course is that it is unfortunately only too apparent that they are benefiting chiefly, not the rod fisherman, but the netsman at the mouth of the river.

Amateur Fish Culture Charles Edward Walker

The netsman, retiring to some little distance, keeps the cylinder in constant motion by pulling the line, at the same time keeping up a soft whistling noise with his mouth.

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne

I allude to hawks, which constantly dash at the call, or play-birds, of the netsman.

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne

And Ferdinand is the best netsman in the Lake St. John country.

Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things Henry Van Dyke 1892

Fights of all sorts took place – the light-armed soldier and the netsman – the lasso and the javelin – the two heavy-armed warriors – all combinations of single combat, and sometimes a general melee.

A Book of Golden Deeds 1864

Fights of all sorts took place -- the light-armed soldier and the netsman

A Book of Golden Deeds Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862