RE: NANFA-- Great homemade dip net plans

Geoff and Julie Kimber (gkimber2_at_earthlink.net)
Fri, 11 May 2001 19:52:29 -0500

I have done really well with a similar idea. Fortunately, I am married to a
wonderful woman who sews and loves me. I found some net cloth which my wife
sewed into a net bag. I bought a nice new bass net with a 6 foot handle and
Julie replaced the net with the bag she made. It works really well, even
when scooping large quantities of mud.

You do have to be careful with the necks - I had a net break abruptly once
and ripped my hand to shreds.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanfa_at_aquaria.net On Behalf
Of Sajjad Lateef
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 4:26 PM
To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
Subject: Re: NANFA-- Great homemade dip net plans

You may want to reinforce the neck of the net. That's the part
where the hoop is attached to the handle. It's the weakest point of the
net and I have seen many nets break there.

On Fri, 11 May 2001 NATURNUT_at_aol.com wrote:

> I ended up ordering some free biological supply catalogs via the
> internet. They haven't come yet, so I thought I would do some
experimenting.
> As I started playing around with ideas I had, I made one dip net that
worked
> great. In my garage I found an old fishing net, the aluminum kind with the

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Sajjad Lateef   email: sajjad <at> acm.org
Chicago, IL     web: http://www.lateef.org/sajjad/




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