For those who have gone steelhead and/or salmon fishing.
A fly-fisher on the salmon River showed me his landing net (a Brodin make), I was impressed and saw that net as perfect for steelhead landing (as for salmon, well you first have to catch a huge one to consider the problems of landing it).
Which would you recommend (one day I’ll surely get one) a Brodin, a Leland or a Loyd H? Or, do you have any other recommendations.
I have big ordinary fishing nets, but they don’t hold confortably hanging on your back while wading.
I use three different sized wooden and one Bamboo. One net is Orvis and has a very long handle for drift boats. The other two wooden nets, sadly are no longer available as the company is no longer. They are Tropical Lightning Creations , and real works of art.
One of them is a long handle pontoon boat net as in the picture (rubberized net), the other is a big rectangular sort of shape, with a shallow rubberized net for C&R and it hangs off the back.
The bamboo is a great river net. Smaller net but can handle 20" fish. The cool thing about it, is the handle if bent over forming a hook. Just hang it off your belt or even the upper part of your waders.
It is made by William Joseph
Nice net. I do have a small wooden one for float-tubing and stream fishing, but I’m eventually looking at the possibility of one that I would be confortable of handling a bigger fish (e.g., steelhead).
Love that idea of bent wooden handle.
Noticed on the web site provide by you that they only have one size.
Yea, they are smaller river nets.
I will probably replace my hubbys with a Brodin. I like this one: http://www.brodin.com/Pro_Cut_FT.html
But I am thinking the ghost netting.
I have been looking into a net recently as well. I wonder how easy it would be to replace my existing cloth net with a rubber coated net?
I have read reviews that the rubber coated nets are lighter then the heavier 100 %rubber net(ghost).
Rubber nets are heavy. Alan likes the bigger holes in the Ghost net. I have mixed feelings. I see the hooks going through the holes and wrapping around something.
The holes on my net are smaller, so hooks “HAVEN’T” fallen through.
I would think, if the net is the right size, it wouldn’t be that hard to change out a net.
