The toot and haul net used in the estuary of the Tay is fastened by a rope at one end to the shore. The net is then placed on a boat or coble; the boat with its net is pulled out by means of an overhaul rope to an anchor in the stream; the boatman on reaching the anchor attaches the net at about twenty yards from its end to a floating rope fastened to the anchor; the end of the net is then turned inward towards the shore forming a bend or hook, and the men on shore haul the net taut. Another rope attached to the boat keeps the net upright. The net is retained in this upright position until a fish strikes it, when the outer end is freed and hauled in by fishermen on shore co as to encircle the fish:—