home made traditional landing net

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Paul F
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home made traditional landing net

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I have just finished my traditional landing net.

The arms are from a hardy spit cane salmon rod at 600mm long, I was lucky as this rod had 2 tip sections of Identical diameter, the ferrules fit nice n snug into the spreader block.
The spreader block is cast alloy painted brass colour as I could not source a solid brass one, but it works.
The bottom net handle section is from the same rod, complete with a twist lock ferrule (see photo 3)
The second part of the handle is from a bamboo cane, I used the male twist lock from the salmon rod
The handle is 5ft long overall

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Very nice Pafpuff.
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Most excellent work :Thumb:
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Excellent.
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Very nice :Thumb:
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Brilliant work Pafpuff :clap: :clap: and a very nice stow-able length when disassembled. :Thumb:

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Very nice!!!...... :Hat: .

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Nice frame, not sure about the mesh being very kind on the fins though.

Traditional looking but traditionally there were a lot of split fins too.

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I agree with Shuan on this one, a modern net mesh would be much kinder to the fish.
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Point taken, but it is a replacement mesh for a salmon gye net.
This will be used for my barbel fishing

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