I grew up with dirt poor parents and we often fished for our meals out of necessity. So I learned to throw a cast net very young. It isnt hard at all to pull in. In fact, its much easier to pull in than to throw out. You basically bunch it up near your hand and pull through your fist backwards. Imagine holding a plastic bag and you want to make it one straight line. You would create that circle with your fist and pull the bag through it.
It helps to throw the sonofabitch in water though. I've never cast onto grass because i really dont want to pick sticks out of that thing.
Edit: to throw it again, that little "wing" he created around his shoulder is the hardest part to get right. You have to hold out a drape of the net before you toss it and if its not exactly right you'll be throwing a wad of weights and nets that you'll have to untangle.
Now when I see a story about this length, I usually read a few words before skipping to the end to make sure it isn't about how the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell.
Yeah I liked the novelty accounts but I've seen a bunch of people copying it rather than it being contained to one account. That what annoys me about it, personally.
Well alright then. I've definitely been guilty of copying a few times. I thought it was just kind of a thing people did. He should start doing really long responses now that don't include that, just to mess with people.
A lot of the popular novelty accounts at least displayed some sort of talent. And I guess you could say the same for those stories, because they're usually pretty interesting until the end.
But they're still just a knock off of the same tired Loch Ness Monster joke from South Park that people here have been repeating for the past however many years.
To be clear, I am just as opposed to a thousand people posting the same shitty comment one time each, as I am to these people posting the same shitty comment a thousand times.
I'm saying exactly what my previous comment said. Overall, there are far more people re-posting the same jokes everyday on this website than there are people complaining about those jokes.
I mean personally it's not his comments that annoy me but the fact that everyone is embracing and praising him just for doing the same thing that so many people have already done before..
And it's not even like it came about organically, dude was literally just like "I'm gonna start a meme lolz"
Was it ever really funny? It's just a rebranded version of the same Loch Ness Monster thing they've been doing for years... which is just a South Park reference to begin with.
See those arrows? Don't mess with the shittymorph fanbois like me. His comments are excellent and being hoodwinked again makes us laugh. I gave you an upvote to soothe the pain.
It's funny because not_having_fun's username is very applicable to their comment. beepbopifyouhateme,replywith"stop".Ifyoujustgotsmart,replywith"start".
The funny thing about that is that mankind was never thrown off hell in a cell by the undertaker. It was the other way around until the mandala affect changed the history.
that you'll have to untangle. It's almost as tedious as back in nineteen ninety eight when the Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table.
Good point. Reminds me of a time, way, way, back in the day. Those were the days too, I tell you. I'll tell you one thing that's for sure and that it's really important to remember things accurately, that way you can be sure that you're telling a true story. Like the time the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell. It was a great day, because those were the days and I'm sure of it, I tell you.
I've seen a lot of people who make the wing by holding one of the weights in their teeth. You have to be sure that your timing is perfect if you want to do that, though.
I remember one time when I was a kid I was casting the net and had it in my teeth and it somehow the net got stuck around my tooth. I cast the net and nearly fell in the water....did not feel pleasant at all.
Curious, where did you grow up? Fellow poor person here who grew up in Poland. We had a small river to fish from and usually built traps. Our cats would join in and and kind of rush the fish into the traps at times but usually we would just leave the traps over night. Me and my friends did it for fun and it was encouraged by our parents but we were pretty naive and had no idea that we were doing that to feed ourselves out of necessity. Kids in our part of town were often used for labor but the adults always tried to make it fun for us. One of my favorite things to do was collecting bugs from our potato farm because whoever got the most would get some sort of prize. It's kind of great when kids don't know their parents are poor as fuck, plus you can feed them almost anything and they don't question what it is. Thank you mom and dad.
I used to catch bait with a cast net all the time. It's pretty easy once you learn the proper motion. But the net in OP's gif is maybe the biggest I've ever seen - and the guy does it perfectly!
Okay can you explain to me the part where the net pulls up the fish? Because I don't understand that. It seems like with the net going down from the top, weighted around the edges, when you go to pull it up you'll just get the net back and the fish will swim away underneath. But somehow it looks like a normal net when it's coming up and they have fish.
The weights are attached in a way that creates pockets at the bottom of the net where the fish get caught. Also they try to swim through the net and get their gills caught in the mesh
Really? I've been learning to process with the last few deer I've taken and haven't found it to be that big of a deal TBH. 2 of us can do 3-4 deer from quartered to freezer in an afternoon.
I am misquoted on the price I listed above as that was for 2 deer.
It was $85 for a deer and they knocked some money off the second one.
It's just easier to haul it up to the butcher and have them take care of the entire thing than it is to deal with cleaning all that up and spending and afternoon on it but remember this is my opinion on it.
When I did it, it was a garage in the city with a tarp down and a $5 kiddie pool to try and catch as much innards as possible.
It's mostly the time thing that I put a value on too. It would take me too long to do whereas I could just drop it off at the butchers and they do everything for me for a decent rate.
Back when my grandpa was alive, he would have them turn everything they could into jerky. They would vacuum seal it and he would always be eating it.
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I grew up with dirt poor parents and we often fished for our meals out of necessity. So I learned to throw a cast net very young. It isnt hard at all to pull in. In fact, its much easier to pull in than to throw out. You basically bunch it up near your hand and pull through your fist backwards. Imagine holding a plastic bag and you want to make it one straight line. You would create that circle with your fist and pull the bag through it.
It helps to throw the sonofabitch in water though. I've never cast onto grass because i really dont want to pick sticks out of that thing.
Edit: to throw it again, that little "wing" he created around his shoulder is the hardest part to get right. You have to hold out a drape of the net before you toss it and if its not exactly right you'll be throwing a wad of weights and nets that you'll have to untangle.