[Slade N. Illinois]

Originally Posted by snowshoe67

S.N.I Question Would you carry a small cast net in your B.O.B? and how big and where to get one? Thanks for your time.

Not at all. A cast net is way too heavy. Yes it works well. Yes you will get bait and some fish. But it will rip easy and it takes a lot of energy to use correctly. I carry a 10' sane or saine net. It has small floats on the top and is weighted on the bottom. I use mine to make a flow trap or just as a walking saine.

[Slade N. Illinois]

Originally Posted by COWBOYSURVIVAL

I use a fishtrap for crawfish and another I made. That umbrella looks like it would be for alot of uses fish, eels, crawfish, probably be a fat turtle in it every now and again!

Thanks for your input, I think I'll have to give it a try.

[Slade N. Illinois]

Originally Posted by LaRemnant

In my book Survival Wisdom and know how, it says that quality fish nets are an AWESOME tool to have as far as its effectiveness in helping keep you alive and fed, but it is very cumbersome and heavy to pack into camp...

Anybody have any good experience with small, potentially tightly rolled fish net? Links?

I carry a saine net from cabelas but I can't find it online just in store. But if you call the Illinois location they will mail it I believe.

I will have to start making videos cause no one has any up of using a saine.

[crazydave]

years ago on a course we stripped down paracord to make nets which was really hard, not doable with 550 cord though.

its pretty easy to improvise a trap, net using what you find or even a mosquito head net

[Cajunlady]

Originally Posted by Slade N. Illinois

Not at all. A cast net is way too heavy. Yes it works well. Yes you will get bait and some fish. But it will rip easy and it takes a lot of energy to use correctly. I carry a 10' sane or saine net. It has small floats on the top and is weighted on the bottom. I use mine to make a flow trap or just as a walking saine.

The question posed by Snoeshoe was would you carry a castnet in your BOB. As Screamingeagle posted , "castnets are very common in our area". I replied I carried one along with trot lines. You stated it is way too heavy. You also stated your seine net has floats on the top and is weighted on the bottom. My castnets are weighted on the bottom with no floats on top just a five foot length of nylon rope. I don't have to get wet if the weather is cold to use it, if I were using a rod and reel to fish I'd be using the same energy to cast it and would probably catch enough on the first cast for a meal and not have to do it again, and my mother-in-law was a very talented woman, Bless Her Soul. She believed in making and giving practical items as gifts. I own four 6' lengths, 1 5' length and three 2' length castnets. Size does make a difference in weight. You do need to dip them in preservative to preserve the netting and yes if you snare them they may rip but they aren't made of kite string and tear easy, they are easy to repair, nothing that can't be patched up. Just thought I would enlighten people more indepthly about castnets. In the end "to each his own".

[crazydave]

short term then night lines are probably a better tactic, anything longer then you would probably start making permanent fish traps. tactically then they arent such a good idea as you would be noticed much easier casting a net.

I have seen something advertised as a fish net come hammock, the standard net ones we reckoned might work against a salmon run but not much else.

mind you you have different fishing over there

[Cajunlady]

Originally Posted by crazydave

short term then night lines are probably a better tactic, anything longer then you would probably start making permanent fish traps. tactically then they arent such a good idea as you would be noticed much easier casting a net.

I have seen something advertised as a fish net come hammock, the standard net ones we reckoned might work against a salmon run but not much else.

mind you you have different fishing over there

Okay Crazy I'm confused here: Are you saying that castnets should only be used at night and standard gill nets are ineffective unless used against a salmon run?

[crazydave]

well if you arent wanting to be discovered then you could say that cast nets should only be used in fog

my reference was to the type of nets I see advertised as survival, a gill net will catch anything, can be hidden and some are sold for use as survival hammocks, a lot of the early net hammocks were advertised as useable as fish nets but if used would probably work in a salmon run. you have bigger and more types of fish than we do so here unless its a sport lake then any type of net is likely to be a waste of energy. a more common survival carry is a rabbit net which is of a close enough weave to be used on a variety of fish, crays or eels. I've hunted for freshwater shrimp and small fish using my headnet in the past.

[Slade N. Illinois]

wow.. well my saine net only weighs in at 9.3oz where as my 3 foot cast net is 2lb 5oz. so for me, I carry the cast net in the SUV and I keep the lighter saine net in my BOB. For me, not having to hike an extra 2lb of net is worth it. This is just me. I can build 4 different fish traps and atleast 3 animal traps with the saine net and only 2 animal traps with the cast net. This is just me though. Not everone will feel the same way. But atlest now I know that I am not the only person that carries a net in his BOB.

[Cajunlady]

Originally Posted by crazydave

well if you arent wanting to be discovered then you could say that cast nets should only be used in fog

I've hunted for freshwater shrimp and small fish using my headnet in the past.

Ah! The element of being discovered is now added to the scenario. Let's see now. This means all this talk about hunting with this gun and that gun to take down games of prey as nourishment are going to be accomplished solely with the use of silencers as the sound of any gunfire can definitely be heard far and wide.

This also means that the shrimp and guppies you plan on catching in your headnet will be eaten raw as opposed to the pansized redfish, shrimp and crabs I'll be feasting on since I do plan on cooking mine in a down to earth fashion.