Lamp's been lit forty minutes. Water's waking up. Here's the whole thing, I'm only saying it once because the mosquitoes are eating my neck.
Drag the pole. Grab the lantern or the pole and pull it where you want it. They come to the reflection on the water, not to the flame — so put it over open water, not on the weed, not up against the bank where it's all broken up.
Then LEAVE it. They take seconds to find it. You keep moving it, nothing has time to arrive, and I will say so.
Lamp height: the grey slider on the left, or the up and down arrows, or your scroll wheel. Higher pole, wider reflection.
Swing the net: press and sweep with the cursor. Come in edge-first — already moving when you touch the water. Drop it flat and you push a wall of water ahead of the rim and everything inside a foot is gone before the hoop gets there.
Crickets sit on the film. Scoop them. Water bugs hit hard and then they SWIM — you have to go under them, a proper fast sweep, deep. Skim the top and you get nothing.
Eight seconds. Anything on the water flies again in about eight seconds. Watch for the wing flick, that's your warning.
Crickets sell by the tin. Bugs by the piece, and for more. Moon comes up around ten and that's the end of it.