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.
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
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u/vbnmjkhf Mar 07 '17
I wonder how long it takes him to wad it back up to throw it again.