a local MegaHardwareGeneralStore (tm), and I'll be putting it on a 10-ft
net.<<<
Jan writes:
A fellow graduate student and I did something like this for collecting in
gravel-cobble bottom streams in the Ozarks. He came up with the idea - not
me - but I have used it since with pretty good success.
We did not use the chain as a "net-sinker" but rather as a "tickler."
Instead of sewing the chain to the bottom of the net, we clipped it to
eyebolts on the bottom of each braile. It was slightly shorter than the
length of the seine, and during use, was pulled ahead of the lead-line,
overturning rocks and LWD ahead of it, and dislodging fish into the pocket
formed by the net. Advantages of this system is that the weight of the
links do not pull on the net (tearing it after long use), and that the seine
can be rapidly transformed for use in different habitats. The chain is
removed for sandy-bottom areas, exchanged for different lengths for
different water velocities, or exchanged for different weights for different
substrate sizes.
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