Is A Rubber Landing Net Worth It?

[TnRiver46]

13 hours ago, roadwarrior said:

You are invited to my house anytime!  If you want to fish Pickwick/ Tennessee River this year,

it's  PRIMETIME!

They are smashing them down there! 

 

i usually leave my net at home. Mostly on purpose because you hook big fish that jump boat side when you don’t have a net. At least I get a chance! When I bring the net along in the boat, we seem to get dinks haha

[AManWearingAHat]

Its worth it alone in the aggravation it saves from having to untangle treble hooks from a traditional string net. Rubber all the way.

[Siebert Outdoors]

Thats all I use anymore.  I will not go back to a standard net.

[WRB]

Traditional knotted nets have been replaced by knotless nets.

Rubber nots are just that a sheet of rubbed with a net pattern. Rubber nets are heavier and don’t move through the water easily making very slow from water resistance.

The knotless modern conservation nets move through the water easily and don’t harm the fish slime coating. 

Tom

 

[michaelb]

I need a new net but am confused by what a rubber net means or which net is going to tangle in treble hooks the least. I think i have a rubber mesh net now:

 

https://www.dancopliers.com/ORANGE-FLOATING-NET

 

but I mostly use that for pike and it will twist and tangle treble hooks into an impossible mess. I want a larger net for my kayak but would want something that didn’t tangle (looking at an ego head and gandle). Wouldn’t the largest openings tangle the least?

[Dens228]

Rubber net combined with a larger sized mesh are perfect as far as I'm concerned. 

 

[gim]

Quite often, I fish alone and trying to net a fish with a rubber net is next to impossible.  Its harder than netting a muskie solo mission.

 

I'll stick with my coated mesh nets.  I've never experienced a tangle that I couldn't remove.  I remove the hooks from the fish first, take a photo, measure it, release it, and THEN remove the hooks from the net.

[A-Jay]

18 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Quite often, I fish alone and trying to net a fish with a rubber net is next to impossible.  Its harder than netting a muskie solo mission.

 

I'll stick with my coated mesh nets.  I've never experienced a tangle that I couldn't remove.  I remove the hooks from the fish first, take a photo, measure it, release it, and THEN remove the hooks from the net.

 This is my stance as well.

I am almost always fishing for 'specific' fish, which are sort of hard to come by 

and routinely require quite a bit of time to find & catch.

The minute it might take to remove a treble hook bait from my net,

pales in comparison. 

I need to be a Net Ninja and the light weight deal is a means to that end.

YMMV

A-Jay

[ajschn06]

Yes

[padlin]

I have an old Ego rubber net, maybe 15 years old. The closest I get to snagging a treble is with pickerel, by the time they are done jumping around they throw the hook and it can get twisted around the netting, I don't know how, but it does, sometimes to the extent I have to cut the line to untangle it. FWIW, I have the small size net which is good for 99% of what I catch. Get a 6lb or bigger LM and they barely fit, like with the tail hanging out. I'd go up to the medium if I were to get another. 

 

https://www.egofishing.com/products/s2-slider/medium-rubber-net/

 

I've replaced the rubber netting 2 or 3 times when it starts falling apart.

 

I see they sell a PVC net now, looks like the netting material is thinner strands, which could be nice pulling it through the water,

[Dogface]

A few years ago I was fishing northern Quebec with my sons. We were fishing for walleye with 3" twister tails. I had a rubber net similar to this one: https://www.amazon.com/Frabill-Sportsman-Seamless-Landing-Telescoping/dp/B001AMJ4K4/ref=asc_df_B001AMJ4K4?tag=bingshoppinga-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80676718050715&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584276296467940&psc=1

 

I hooked a big pike. I was using 6 lb test mono and I finally got it up to the boat. My son nets it and tries to lift it into the boat. The rubber net bottom rips out and the pike falls back into the lake.  I shoved the rod through the hole in the net to follow the fish and I finally get it back up to the boat where I hand landed it. 

 

I have not purchased another rubber net. They are handy and great for most fish especially ones with teeth but I won't take another chance. 

 

 

 

[cyclops2]

What hooks stuck in braided nets?  I Have no tangles anymore. Converted to  barbless hooks.

 

I crush he barbs. Works.

[steve-pierce]

On 2/16/2022 at 11:10 AM, gimruis said:

Quite often, I fish alone and trying to net a fish with a rubber net is next to impossible.  Its harder than netting a muskie solo mission.

 

I'll stick with my coated mesh nets.  I've never experienced a tangle that I couldn't remove.  I remove the hooks from the fish first, take a photo, measure it, release it, and THEN remove the hooks from the net.

I use a rubber net solo. It’s heavier but not that bad

 

I edited my original post after thinking about it,  because heavy is relative to the person doing the lifting.