See, you use the butterfly net to catch the faeries, DUB-ya, THEN you put them in the bottles. Just another poor yutz who apparently never played A Link to the Past, the best Zelda game ever made.
Ocarina of Time runs second, just for epic storyline and playability, but the SNES one is just so...much FUN. There's so much to do, to fight, to discover.
i never finished it, but i am very partial to Majora's Mask...i should crack it out again sometime soon. i already went through A Link to the Past a few years back.
what i hate about all the new zeldas is that they always give you some little fairy, spirit, or something that drags you around showing you what to do.