cast-net

You can cast-net for them from a boat, but that takes time and expertise that you may not have.

A Keys Report: Fishing the Backcountry with Executive Editor Mike Toth 2006

He had dug a peck or two of the large round clams, and two or three throws of his cast-net as we came through the creek procured a dozen mullet.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various

There are also a pair of grains, a light harpoon, and a cast-net which is torn some, but Johnny can fix it.

Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock

It was fine fun to help the lock-keeper with his cast-net and store the bait-can with gudgeons and minnows, and to crack jokes before the tumbling and rumbling weir, with its deep, wide pool, high banks around, and overhanging bushes.

Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

While they were waiting for Ned's hand to get well, Dick got out the fly-rod and cast-net that came with his canoe and spent all his spare time trying to learn to throw the net.

Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock

No arms were used in these encounters; the sportsman was provided only with a single doubly-pointed stick and a cast-net, like the one perhaps, used by the ancient gladiators.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

Acadiens, and li'l 'plunder inside -- few kittle', and pan ', -- cast-net, fish-line', two, t'ree gun ', and -- my wife' grave, yond 'in graveyard.

Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana George Washington Cable 1884

I've helped him many a time use the drag and the cast-net, fishing.

Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy George Manville Fenn 1870

Dick knew the wheelwright too well to persevere; and in his heart he could not help admiring the man's stern sense of honesty; so making up his mind to be content with some fishing and a good wander in the untrodden parts of the fen, he asked Hickathrift to get him some baits with his cast-net.

Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp George Manville Fenn 1870

Soon after dawn the village urchins begin disporting themselves among the breakers and billows upon broken bits of boat, while their fathers throw the cast-net nearer shore.

To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855