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Topic: Wind paddle Release Right Fish Net  (Read 662 times)

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Tonymoore55

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Has anyone purchased this net.  I like the concept.  Just thought someone might have it and get their opinion.


crash

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I was just looking at these yesterday.  High concept but I'm skeptical that the fish won't just jump out of it.  It is a folding net > 18" diameter so ocean legal and folds down to carry stow it away to be legal, which is a bonus in addition to use for CPR fishing.



ACK listing:
https://www.austinkayak.com/products/19159/WindPaddle-Release-Right-Floating-Fish-Net.html?k=release%20right

But yeah this is in my cart at ACK and I'm probably gonna buy it unless someone talks me out of it.
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saw those a while back, been looking at their sails on youtube - pretty cool!
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I wanted to see him fold it all the way back up real quick - it looks a little messy in terms of lots of water drizzling out of it if you want to fold it right up and stow it.  Otherwise, I think this looks like a nice product.  The big thing about the very fine mesh netting is that fish don't see a potential escape hole like they do in a typical big salmon net.  Where there are knots every 3" or so on the big salmon net, a fish slams itself up against inescapable holes and damages all of its fins, but in the fine mesh net it sees no escape - I've been describing my steelhead catches as having "gone to sleep" in my new fine mesh release net by Promar.  I LOVE it. 

It does look like a fish might jump out of this floating product, but I still like it - especially for the use he described where a tourney bass fisherman keeps the fish in good shape with it by keeping it in the water.  I could see using this in the ocean with rockfish or coho.
« Last Edit: March 23, 2016, 10:25:58 PM by LoletaEric »
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