| English | Russian |
| become tangled up in one's nets | запутаться в сетях (But then around a year later two boys, who had been fishing along the same stretch of coastline, reported that something large and unexpected had become tangled up in their nets. Initially believing it to be a crayfish, they were stunned to discover that what they had picked up was a huge octopus.  youtube.com ART Vancouver) |
| fish caught in a densely-meshed net | частик (except for sturgeon, salmon, herring, and some other) |
| fish caught in a thick net | частик (except for sturgeon, salmon, herring, and some other) |