You have to make just one more cast, catch one more fish. It’s
in your DNA as an angler to catch a bigger fish than you just caught. Always
one more cast, one more fish. Today, your one more cast catches that
fish of a life time. Carefully you play the fish into the net, after
a couple photos it’s time to release the fish back unharmed. Your
fishing trip was successful and more importantly; the fish you release will
live to be caught another day.
Today, the catch and release principle lives on thanks to conservation
minded fishing tournaments and anglers. Professional fishermen are taking
excellent care of their fish by using products like livewell additives and
landing nets made especially for protecting their catch alive. Other
anglers also have the attitude of catch and release. They know the future
of the sport relies on how fish are treated during the catch and release process,
no matter what specie they are targeting.
When landing
and releasing a fish, the landing net plays an intricate part
of the process. Being able to control the fish will decrease
the chance of injury like eye damage, fins split or tore, and
scales or slime removed. Professional
fishermen and other anglers have turn to landing nets that meet
their needs for catch and release. Frabill (www.frabill.com)
conservation series nets offer a fish friendly, knotless mesh netting,
and flat panel bottom to protect your fish while landing and releasing
them.
The new Frabill
conservation series net has a shallow flat bottom panel that
supports the fish’s entire
body. This eliminates the fish
from rolling in the net causing injury and makes it easier for
removal. All
of the Frabill conservation series nets have knotless netting to
reduced damage to fins, scales, and a fish’s slime coat,
in addition to preventing hooks from snagging in the net. A
matted black finish mesh guard protects the netting, extends the
life of the net, and shy fish from refusing to get into the net. The
reinforced, one piece handle design features a Pow’R
Lok yoke system that allows the handle to slide through for convenient
storage. The
conservation series net comes in nine models to choose from depending
on the species of fish you are targeting. Frabill has helped
out the process by attaching a tag that indicates which specie
it was design for depending on hoop size, hoop style, netting style,
netting material, depth/bottom of net, handle type, and handle
length. Professional anglers will
enjoy the telescoping handle feature that has an extremely extrusion
reinforcement one piece contoured handle. Since, storage
is always a problem in their boats. These nets are not the
landing nets of yesterday.
Gratefully, professional fishermen and other anglers have
that chance to make one more cast today and tomorrow with the more
conservation minded landing nets being made today.
Brad
Wiegmann is a full time fishing guide on Beaver lake and
Lake SWEPCO in Northwest Arkansas. Brad guides for Largemouth,
Spotted, Smallmouth, Stripers and White Bass. He is also a free-lance
writer who's weekly column "Speaking of Fishing" appears
weekly in several local newspapers. You may also see him doing
seminars, working outdoor shows or featured in outdoor magazines such
as BASSMASTER Magazine, Outdoor life and Arkansas Sportsman. He
also fishes the FLW Tour, Stren and local open tournaments. He
is currently on the Pro staff, promotional staff and guide programs
of numerous tackle manufactures, lure companies, and fishing related
companies. You can contact him at (479) 756-5279, at