Question:
| | First put the loop that is on the line around your wrist… Then Grab | the net by the weighted area on the side of the net… Now like a huge | frisbee… toss it two handed into the water… This takes some | practice… They are very awkward at first so to avoid public | embarassment, practice in your back yard… Throw it on grass though, | so you don’t damage it… The Idea is to have the net hit the water | fully open. Hope this helps… | I remember reading an article in Reader’s Digest about a guy who was cast net fishing. Without realizing it, he threw the net over some type of huge manta ray. Before he could remove the loop around his wrist, the ray pulled it tight and began dragging him through the water. He was able to get loose only because the rope broke after being drug across the barnacles on a post. Something to think about… DD
Response:
First put the loop that is on the line around your wrist… Then Grab the net by the weighted area on the side of the net… Now like a huge frisbee… toss it two handed into the water… This takes some practice… They are very awkward at first so to avoid public embarassment, practice in your back yard… Throw it on grass though, so you don’t damage it… The Idea is to have the net hit the water fully open. Hope this helps…
Good advice. I used a cast net in Guam and Puerto Rico a lot and there are a number of different throwing techniques that you can use depending on how far you want to throw it and how deep you are standing in the water at the time. Best to practice where no one can see you until you can get it to spread properly. BiNM
Response:
- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – can someone give instructions on how to throw a 6 ft. bait net First put the loop that is on the line around your wrist… Then Grab the net by the weighted area on the side of the net… Now like a huge frisbee… toss it two handed into the water… This takes some practice… They are very awkward at first so to avoid public embarassment, practice in your back yard… Throw it on grass though, so you don’t damage it… The Idea is to have the net hit the water fully open. Hope this helps… Good Luck Jim Minogue Ed Shirley Sports http://www.edshirley.com
After you have mastered the standard net, go to: http://www.bertaut.com/LaFishMag1.html for the real cast net secret! Check out "Big Al" our Record Mullet! Good Casting is Easy! BOB!
Response:
can someone give instructions on how to throw a 6 ft. bait net
I will try to state it simply. But it is like trying to explain roller skating. You just gotta do it until you get to the Ahah! point. Since you only have a six footer, it will be easy. Grab the middle rope. Pull up the center sliding grommet until the whole net quits billowing, and hold the grommet firmly with your dominant hand. Take a handful of the edge closest to you with the free hand and put it in the hand holding the center. Now take ahold of the bottom of the dangling edge nearest you with the free hand. Here is the tricky part. Holding both arms to your front, with elbows bent, twist your shoulders and back around turning towards the hand you have on the center of the net. Do this about waist high. Rotate as far around as you can. Bring the net close to you. Then rotate body, shoulders and net forward, releasing the off hand first from the net, and the center of the net hand second right after that. The object is to make the net spin and billow out from the centrifugal force on the weights. I could show you in a couple of minutes, but describing it is hard. Keep in mind to try to get the net straight first, taking out all tangles and bumps. Second, try to spin the perimiter of the net. Third, throw it slightly up from parallel with the ground. I kind of bend at the knees and straighten up as I throw. It might be more for style than results, but it works for me Hope this helps. Remember, the object is to spin the net so the weights will open it by centrifugal force. You should be holding the net by the center, and the edges about two arms lengths distance apart along the perimiter. Steve, the DsrtTravlr
Response:
Thanks Tommy for the best description I’ve read on throwing a net. Far more detailed than the instructions that came with my net. I consider myself reasonably proficient with a net but am eager to go back to the ‘backyard’ proving ground to practice your technique. Watching a well thrown net parachute into the lake is a thing of beauty. My advice to anyone comtemplating buying a casting net is to print out these instructions . . . Duff
Response:
can someone give instructions on how to throw a 6 ft. bait net
First put the loop that is on the line around your wrist… Then Grab the net by the weighted area on the side of the net… Now like a huge frisbee… toss it two handed into the water… This takes some practice… They are very awkward at first so to avoid public embarassment, practice in your back yard… Throw it on grass though, so you don’t damage it… The Idea is to have the net hit the water fully open. Hope this helps… Good Luck Jim Minogue Ed Shirley Sports http://www.edshirley.com
Response:
can someone give instructions on how to throw a 6 ft. bait net
Response:
- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – can someone give instructions on how to throw a 6 ft. bait net First put the loop that is on the line around your wrist… Then Grab the net by the weighted area on the side of the net… Now like a huge frisbee… toss it two handed into the water… This takes some practice… They are very awkward at first so to avoid public embarassment, practice in your back yard… Throw it on grass though, so you don’t damage it… The Idea is to have the net hit the water fully open. Hope this helps… Good Luck Jim Minogue Ed Shirley Sports http://www.edshirley.com
I hope the above was meant as a joke. Throwing a Cast Net: Terms: Wrist rope: the 10 to 20 foot long rope with a loop that goes around your wrist. The other end is tied to the net. There should be a big swivel at the net end of the wrist line where it attaches to the tuck lines. Lead line: the rope at the perimeter of the net that has the lead weights tied to it. Pronounced like the metal substance from which the weights are made. Tuck lines, the radial lines, usually heavy mono, that extend from the swivel on the wrist rope to the lead line. After a cast, these lines pull the lead line together and up to the horn, encircling the bait fish. Horn: The short tube piece through which the wrist rope and tuck lines are pulled. Usually made from plastic nowadays but was originally made from a piece of cow or goat horn. For a left-hand-leading (like a right handed golf swing) throw: Take your watch off. Put the end of the wrist rope around your right wrist. Coil the rope up carefully in 1 foot loops in your right hand. Grab the net just below the horn with your right hand, thumb touching the horn. Hold the net off the ground and spread the lead line and make sure no tuck lines are tangled around the lead line. Grab the whole net with your left hand, one foot higher than the mid point of the net. While still holding the rope and horn end in your right hand, grab the middle of the net with your right hand, thumb up. You now have the coiled rope, the net just below the horn, and the net at the middle in your right hand. The top half of the net makes a big loop. Hold the net up shoulder high, elbow completely bent, with your right hand. If you want to use your teeth (a personal preference thing), take out your partial plate and grab the lead line at the point closest to you and put it in your teeth. Don’t hold a weight in your mouth. Reach under the lead line on the side of the net closest to you and drape an arm’s length or more of the lead over your left fore arm. If you are using your teeth, drape the part of the net to the left of your bite on the lead line. Grab the lead line, palm up, thumb pointing left, with one or possibly two arms lengths of lead line draped over your left arm. You are now in position to cast. Holding the weight of the net with your right hand, shoulder high in front of you, start a smooth back swing at your waist. The back swing needs to be forcefull enough to cause the net to wrap around your body. When the weights wrap around you and hit your body on the other side, begin your forward swing. Your left arm will be horizontal, shoulder high, and outstretched like a golf swing. Your right hand will follow your left elbow at the beginning of the forward swing and will support the weight of the net. As you swing, the right arm extends out straight. The left arm will sling the lead line out and in a big circle, throwing the net slightly upward. At the mid point of the foreward swing, when you are squared up and facing forward with your shoulders, our right arm will be straight extended a little farther out than the left, which should start to retract. In the middle of the swing you will release with your right hand, and your teeth if you want to keep them, and follow through with your left, pulling it back in slightly to impart a spin on the net. The net should open like a parachute and hit the water with the lead line in a big circle with the horn in the middle. Let it sink. If you are in shallow water, let it sink to the bottom, if the bottom isn’t covered with rocks and oysters. If in deep water, let it sink until the wrist line starts pulling tight or when you think the lead line has closed up. Begin the retrieve with the wrist line by snatching it briskly several times and coil the rope up in your right hand to set up for the next cast. Haul the net full of bait over the gunwale and set it in your laundry basket or baitwell. (They make heavy duty baskets like laundry baskets that drain but have small holes so the weights don’t get hung in it.) Grab the horn and pick up the net. Your booty will dump out the bottom into the basket or baitwell. Shake out the reluctant, gilled netted, small fish and tangled crabs by grabbing the net close by and shaking vigorously. Throw back your bycatch quickly to ensure its survival. Tips: Shirt buttons get caught in the net, wear a tee shirt or zip-up jacket. A rain suit is nice if you want to stay dry. The swinging weights will break the windshield on your center console if you hit it. Your partner won’t appreciate getting smacked with them either. If throwing in deep water, either wear a life jacket or don’t tie the net to your body. If you fall overboard, you can’t swim with a cast net. Hope that helps, Tommy