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Anybody ever used a chain bottom cast net?

20K views 14 replies 7 participants last post by  Floridadeputy  
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A friend has one and he loves it. I have thrown it several times and its a little awkward. It is heavy as heck. I believe a guy in Foley made his seems like he may work full time at autozone or advanced auto parts. I will check with him and let you know.
 
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man i had one and it was the best net ive ever used. it was pretty heavy but i liked that it sank real fast. it was easier to open than a regular net and opened better. some jerkoff stole it out of my truck while i was surf fishing. i paid about 240 bucks for it and that was 5 years ago. id be interested in getting one also.
 
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I've bought home made chain nets 10 footers for around 155.00 near Apalachicola. It's the only net I've caught Flounder with and love it, My dog and I often go and he thinks he has to check the net every time I pull it in. Yes he has been known to steal fish out of my cooler. I cooked a Flounder while fishing on grill and he would get a bite then me and vice versa. I don't know which of us enjoys it more. I so want to learn Flounder gigging next.
 
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Let's talk about this tomorrow.
Chain is my favorite, but I also prefer bag over brail.
I just had Rick from my previous post on castnets repair my brail and he prefers bag....I told him we'd go throw em and if I liked the bag, I'll be selling my brail...He showed me some rope he can use in the bottom of his nets that has lead inlaid in the line then does the lead weights on the line too to make it how ever the new owner wants....:thumbsup: