Hi guys, I got a cast net for christmas and im planing to start catfishing and I like to cut bait. Can anyone tell me if you can catch bluegill, white bass, and carp on a cast net. Thank you
You can use a cast net on non-protected species. These include carp, chubs, shiners, fathead minnows, etc. They do not include white bass, bluegills or any other gamefish. In fact, if your bucket is checked by a CO and you have any protected species you are toast.
Also, be sure to kill your minnows as soon as you catch them. Keeping them alive in a bucket of water is a no no.
Thank you for the information
Just in case you need some help in learning how to throw that thing, here is a pictorial.
Thanks TD…your editorial just made me aware of the one “problems” I have been having using mine…
thanks again!!
watch out you don’t net up any gizzard shad at Willard either.
watch out you don’t net up any gizzard shad at Willard either.
You mean “spotted carp” minnows?
Unreal I thought in Utah you were not allowed to use a cast net over 4 feet all the way across. 10 feet? I was surprised. I just looked up the fishing proclomation lo and behold viola! I could not believe my own eyes. I had to look up the word radius in the dictionary, I thought it meant Latin for the whole circle across rather than the center. 10 footsers legal in Utah wow.
About how I throw a throw net. I don’t do it the way your .pdf file says, that way just does not work for me. I thought it would work but not for me. I just use my elbow and stick it under the net and well…and do some other things and throw it, works for me. I can’t explain it I sort of toss it like a frisby suing my elbow. Seems to work.
Last time I used a net was the Jordan, caught quite a few Utah suckers but they are too small for bait. But I had fun catching them.
I still have a brand new throw net, never been used. The other one that I had I caught a underwater tree stump at the Jordan River. Silly me, ding ding dingaling.[pirate]