07-26-2003, 05:18 PM
Last night I ran up to Renegade for a while with my buddy. He wanted to get out there in my canoe, so I thought "what the heck....I'll try catching some minnows before we go out." I spent an hour on the front lawn practicing throwing it before we left. After a comical show for the neighbors and somehow managing to have the net swing back and hit me in the nuts (twice), I pretty much got the hang of it.
When we got the berry I caught 50 or so minnows, but when I was finished, my brand new net had 3 or 4 two inch diameter holes in it. Am I doing something wrong? Is it just a cheap net? [#ff0000]How do I repair it? Can I patch it with a heavy monofilament?[/#ff0000]
By the time we got out on the water the sun was going down and a thunderstorm was moving in. We only fished for about 25 min before we were chased off of the lake. I caught one and missed 3 other good hits and my buddy missed 3. Kent, do you have a hard time hooking them with minnows? The cutt that I caught was a fatty! He fought so hard on the way in and was jumping so much that I thought he might be a koke (I couldn't see him really well until I had him in the light), He was only 14.5", but man did he put up a good fight.
-Jack
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When we got the berry I caught 50 or so minnows, but when I was finished, my brand new net had 3 or 4 two inch diameter holes in it. Am I doing something wrong? Is it just a cheap net? [#ff0000]How do I repair it? Can I patch it with a heavy monofilament?[/#ff0000]
By the time we got out on the water the sun was going down and a thunderstorm was moving in. We only fished for about 25 min before we were chased off of the lake. I caught one and missed 3 other good hits and my buddy missed 3. Kent, do you have a hard time hooking them with minnows? The cutt that I caught was a fatty! He fought so hard on the way in and was jumping so much that I thought he might be a koke (I couldn't see him really well until I had him in the light), He was only 14.5", but man did he put up a good fight.
-Jack
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