Chase and Catch Games Catch Of Fish
( Chase and Catch, Circle and Breakthrough, Wrestling )This is a very strenuous game and affords opportunity for some very good exercise and sport.
A line is drawn across each end of the playground beyond which the players stand in two equal parties one at one end and one at the other. The players of one party clasp hands to form a fish net. The players in the other party are fish. At a given signal both advance toward the center of the playground which represents a stream the object of the fish being to swim across to the opposite shore without being caught in the net. To do this they will naturally dodge around the ends of the net.
The net should inclose or encircle any fish that it catches. The fish so caught may not try to break apart the clasped hands forming the net but may escape only through the opening where the two ends come together. Should the net break at any point by an unclasping of hands the fish are all allowed to escape and the players go back to their respective goals and begin over again. Any fish caught in the net are thereafter out of the game until all are caught. After the net has made one catch the sides exchange parts those of the fish that are left forming the new net and the first net crossing to the other side and becoming fish. The two sides thus exchange places and parts until all on one side are caught.
For a large number of players it is better to have two small nets instead of one large one the dodging being livelier and the progress of the game more rapid in every way.