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landing fish when wading

Cliff Turner

Cliff Turner

Senior Member & Supporter
when wading do you use a net to land fish or try and hand them out ? If you use a net what type and how do you affix it to your self so its at hand ?
 
Same as Rhys. I play the fish to a position slightly upstream then allow them to drop back into my net.

My net has a loop of strong elastic from the handle, it allows the net to lie on my back with the elastic over my left shoulder and secured to the front of my waders by the brace buckle.
 
i use a 32" net with a short hadle and use a peice of bungee cord tied top and bottom of the net handle, dead easy to just push forward the bungee from my chest and lift ove my head all in one quick movement, it works fine and is just as quick to put it back over my head, obviously slipping the pole down one wader and your rod down the other leg when tending the fish:)
 
I've had my net around 20 years and no makers marks to be found so can't advise Cliff.
 
I don't like the idea of a wet slimy net down your back. I sometimes walk the barbel back to the shore with a waiting net, sometimes hand land them. Last year I had a brainwave. I screwed a landing net head onto my long extending bankstick. Then push the bankstick into the river where I am wading but not tighten the extension screw. When you hook a barbel play it to you then lift the inner rod out of the sleeve of the fixed bankstick with the net attached. Net the fish, unhook, release the fish then slide the inner rod with net attached back into the bankstick sleeve.
 
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