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Location: searchin for 50 | How do you net your fish? Head first or tail first? Just wondering Talked to one guy and he said it is tail first all the time. What is your way to do it? |
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| if i'm alone, tailfirst- i'm netting for my partner, headfirst. headfirst flying solo is tough- when the fish makes sudden movements and you only have one hand to control the speed and direction of the net, it's much easier to tangle the hooks in the net and loose the fish. solo/tailfirst, i come from behind the fish, and then when the rim is safely past the fish's nose , lift up quickly as you continue the forward movement of the net. never lost one yet this way...
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Location: Hugo, MN | Depends on which way the fish is positioned and if I've got a netman. Sometimes it is easier to scoop 'em up tail first other times you can drag 'em head first into the net. When fishing alone it's whatever way gets her in the net the fastest. |
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| head first and i hold one finger to keep the bag back till i scoop the fish. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Only one way to do it right, and that is head first. Fish only swim forward they don't have a reverse as well as you're pulling them in head first unless you snag one by the tail.
Fish tend to lunge when you net them, head first they lunge in the net and tail first fish lunge out and away.
BTW it doesn't make much difference on the small ones, but I don't net those. |
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Location: Ft. Wayne Indiana | Head first EVERY time.
If you try it tail first you will have problems with the fish running on you, getting the bait hook on the bag, and lose a fish.
Head first, hold the bottom of the net(bag) until the fish is about 6 inches away from the net, drop the bad, scoop the fish. But always do it head first. |
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Location: nationwide | While head first is how 99% of my fish are netted . . .. . either being the netman or when alone, at times things go bad and I have netted fish backwards and sideways . . .don't like to but when things go bad if it ends up in the net that is what matters. My largest solo fish was a 48 incher a couple years ago . . with string winds blowing me into a rocky shoreline. I ended up netting it backwards at the back corner of the boat by the big motor . . . . everything I don't like to do happened netting that fish . . and i got it somehow. I still laugh when I think about that, if there ever was a clip that should be shown on how not to net a fish that was it.
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| My wife came up with an unusual method that works well for her.
* You don't put the net into the water very far. This enable the muskie to swim under the basket and get the remaining hooks caught in the webbing.
* Now that the fish is securely thrashing under the net, you drop the net straight down, twist, and lift. Wallah!
You may laugh but this method has worked 100% of the 1 time I let her net my fish. Chances are she will not have opportunity to perfect this method in my boat away.
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| Head first....with some exceptions.
If a guy always nets muskies from the tail, he must either be really good or play the muskie until it is tired out. Or, he uses an awful large net compared to the size of the muskies. Of course, he could have been "pulling your chain".
I agree with others, touch the tail and watch it go wild.
There are exceptions, when a muskie isn't hooked all that well (after playing it for awhile) and the opportunity to net it from the tail is the first opportunity, you might try to net a 50 incher
knowing the fish is about to tear loose from a spinner bait....I did and it made my brother-in-law very happy.
So I guess my exception would be only if necessary and only with spinner and inline bucktails.
When someone else handling the net, I like to be in charge of when and how the muskie is netted. It's important to tell the net man when I feel it is the right time to put the net into the water (when I can help lead the fish into the net). Don't let your net man think he can net your fish before it is ready to be netted.
Head first and be in charge of the action. |
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