| Go with a coated for sure. Knotless if you can find it. I'd go with the 48" bag even on your smaller hoop. Might not be ideal, but the extra room in the net is nice if you get a big one. When I started out I just had a regular net I got at Kmart or somewhere. Quickly figured out that I needed a hook-proof one. So then I put a 48" Beckman replacement coated bag on it ($60) which are pretty good . So now I had a nice net bag on a crappy hoop which quickly became apparent, so I bought one of those BPS catfish nets ($48) 36" by 32" hoop and put the bag on it. Much better, but it still ain't a Frabill Big Game. I don't know how good your hoop is, but if it's not too great, and you can afford it, consider getting a whole new net. Once you start trying to save a buck or two on nets, you wind up spending more than you think, and you wind up with an expensive, but only decent, net that you're only semi-satisfied with. |
