More Tips & Tricks For Cast Nets

I wrote the other day about how to throw a cast net and have added several other articles like storing a cast net, preparing a cast net, the parts of a cast net and choosing a cast net. I also mentioned the other day getting one of these bait buckets.

Here are some more tips and tricks to help you with your process of catching fresh bait, and some information on one of the handiest tools you will ever have available to you, and it only costs a few dollars!

You are going to get wet when catching bait! Make sure that you have the proper gear on. That means in the middle of the Winter, make sure you have protective clothing and waterproof boots on. If not, make sure you have a plan of attack when your feet or clothes get wet and you start getting cold. Hypothermia will definitely ruin your fishing trip.

Be Careful, especially if you are on a boat. Throwing a net with weights on it and your arm tied around an end of a rope is a dangerous activity. You need to use caution because bad things can happen. Just about every experienced catfish fisherman has gone into the lake or river when throwing a cast net at one point or another. If they have not fallen in they have come real close. Make sure you have on a PFD, especially if you are by yourself, and make sure you have a plan for what you will do if you DO fall in. This is especially important in the fall and winter and in rough water. If you fall in the lake in cold water it does not take long at all for your muscles to begin cramping, and if you fall in some rough or fast moving water you can go under in no time. Just be safe!

Get a bait bucket! I use these big buckets with rope handles that come from any discount store. They work great for dumping your fresh caught catfish bait in until you are finished catching bait. You can also use them for storing your net, especially when changing places that you are going to catch bait. They also make it easy to strain the water from your bait, but more on that later!

Clear the deck! Nets tangle, and you want to make sure that anything that is around the area that you will be throwing is not going to tangle in your net. There is nothing worse than throwing a rod over the side of the boat because it caught in your net while you are throwing. I have to admit that I have lost many cell phones this way! Also make sure that people are not standing too close. Whacking your fishing buddy in the head with a flying cast net is not a good way to keep fishing buddies!

Watch your clothes! The net will tangle on your clothes if there is anything it can grab on to.

Know the laws! Make sure you are familiar with state and local regulations on cast nets!

If you follow these simple tips it should make throwing your cast net much easier.

Here is a short video that will give you some ideas on using one of these handy buckets. I use this for everything from hauling stuff back and forth to my boat, cleaning catfish, and even storing my cast nets.

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