Wooden Fly-Fishing Landing Net

[LeGrand]

For those who have gone steelhead and/or salmon fishing.

A fly-fisher on the salmon River showed me his landing net (a Brodin make), I was impressed and saw that net as perfect for steelhead landing (as for salmon, well you first have to catch a huge one to consider the problems of landing it).

Which would you recommend (one day I'll surely get one) a Brodin, a Leland or a Loyd H? Or, do you have any other recommendations.

I have big ordinary fishing nets, but they don't hold confortably hanging on your back while wading.

Thanks.

Brodin web site
[url "http://www.brodin.com/"]http://www.brodin.com/[/url]

Leland web site
[url "http://www.flyfishingoutfitters.com/p/p.aspx?mlid=2277&gclid=CMPsmf7O8acCFcm8KgodXQwcWg"]http://www.flyfishingoutfitters.com/p/p ... KgodXQwcWg[/url]

LDH web site
[url "http://www.ldhnets.com/steelhead.htm"]http://www.ldhnets.com/steelhead.htm[/url]
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[flygoddess]

I use three different sized wooden and one Bamboo. One net is Orvis and has a very long handle for drift boats. The other two wooden nets, ly are no longer available as the company is no longer. They are Tropical Lightning Creations , and real works of art.



One of them is a long handle pontoon boat net as in the picture (rubberized net), the other is a big rectangular sort of shape, with a shallow rubberized net for C&R and it hangs off the back.

The bamboo is a great river net. Smaller net but can handle 20" fish. The cool thing about it, is the handle if bent over forming a hook. Just hang it off your belt or even the upper part of your waders.
It is made by William Joseph

http://www.cabelas.com/nets-wading-staff...erralID=NA


I love wooden nets. Hubby lost his longer TLC net while at Henry's last year.....[:/][]
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[LeGrand]

Thanks flygoddess,

Nice net. I do have a small wooden one for float-tubing and stream fishing, but I'm eventually looking at the possibility of one that I would be confortable of handling a bigger fish (e.g., steelhead).

Love that idea of bent wooden handle.

Noticed on the web site provide by you that they only have one size.
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[flygoddess]

Yea, they are smaller river nets.
I will probably replace my hubbys with a Brodin. I like this one:
http://www.brodin.com/Pro_Cut_FT.html
But I am thinking the ghost netting.
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[MatchT]

I have been looking into a net recently as well. I wonder how easy it would be to replace my existing cloth net with a rubber coated net?
I have read reviews that the rubber coated nets are lighter then the heavier 100 %rubber net(ghost).

any thoughts? suggestions

Match
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[flygoddess]

Rubber nets are heavy. Alan likes the bigger holes in the Ghost net. I have mixed feelings. I see the hooks going through the holes and wrapping around something.

The holes on my net are smaller, so hooks "HAVEN'T" fallen through.

I would think, if the net is the right size, it wouldn't be that hard to change out a net.
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