Fishing Tackle: How to Fish with Net?

When someone asks you what can be used when catching the fish, you may tell him that the common tackles people use are fishing rod & reel, fishing line, fishing hook, fishing lure and so on. But have you ever remembered an ancient tackle: fishing net.

1. What is fishing net?

Fishing net is a device made from fibers woven in a grid-like structure. Some fishing nets are also called fish traps. Fishing nets are usually meshes formed by knotting a relatively thin thread. Early nets were woven from grasses and other fibrous plant material. Later cotton was used. Modern nets are usually made of artificial polyamides like nylon, although nets of organic polyamides such as wool or silk thread were common until recently and are still used.

There are various of fishing nets in the market, but the common types are:

Hand Nets: These are similar to the nets you see children use at the beach for scooping up crabs or seashells. The net is held open by a large ring, and some are attached to handles for better leverage when quickly scooping fish out of the water.
Lave Nets: These are a less common type of hand net. The net is much bigger and sits in the water until the fisherman feels a fish hit the mesh. Then, the fisherman slowly lifts the net out of the water with the fish inside.
Cast Nets: Cast nets are wide, circular nets that have small weights attached to the edges (which allow the net to sink into the water). As the net is hauled back in, small fish will be caught.

2. How to fish with nets?

Fishing with nets is not an easy work. Compared with fishing with rods, it requires unique skills and quick reflexes. And that is why less people like net fishing. If you want to challenge yourself and learn how to fish with nets, you have to prepare yourself for it, because you may not get it right on your first few tries.

Step 1

Choose a net with appropriable size. The size of the fishing nets depends on where you want to fish and what kind of fish you want to catch. Remember that the holes of the net should be small, or the net will be damaged easily by the big fish.

Step 2

When you prepare your fishing net, you should find a suitable place and throw the cast net. There are a number of ways to throw a cast net and there is no right or wrong way. The ultimate goal is that you can throw the net, get it to fully open up and can get shade inside of it. It really doesn’t matter how you throw the net as long as these things happen.

As the old saying goes, “Practice makes perfect”. Although the net fishing is hard, as long as you spend more time on practicing it, you will get a good result in the end.