Done this myself on the west coast of Ireland. Drift and draft nets slightly different way of working but when the nets closed and you see a fish jump...FISH IN HER! Boys dropping their tea everywhere 😂
My grandfather worked on the nets on the river Forth near Stirling. Clearly this was an exciting job as he remembered lots of details well into old age. His favourite story was when they shot the net at the mouth of the river Allan where it joins the Forth. Several floats dipped and they thought they'd caught a sunken branch or tree. It appeared to come in when they pulled so they thought it best to keep pulling and untangle it on the bank. It turned out to be a 30+lb salmon!!!
i came from generations of gills netters and remember lifting nets with my father as a boy in a clinker on strangford lough n.ire, it never seemed fair to me so i never took it up, i catch them with rod and line and let them go, seeing 1 swim off again is a better wage than 1 on the table
Great guys. Not so many left nowadays for the angler that pays a fortune to fish and return all fish, disgusting I’m thinking . Take , take and take until there is nothing left.
Iam Dutch and net Zander and trap Eels with fykenets...been to Scotland many times,even back in the 70ts,love this and gonna try to get the book....diffecult for me coz I never buy someting online...thanks and greets from the Netherlands
It's quite simple, when it's not sustainable anymore it has to stop. Looking at it 30 years later it's hard to see an entire pool cleaned out. Yes culture is important but not at the expense of a species.
On winder the numbers have dropped ! Now its showing lucky if you get a fish now in a season most rivers I used to fish had good run of fish not now gone I hope I'll see them again !!!!
Done this myself on the west coast of Ireland. Drift and draft nets slightly different way of working but when the nets closed and you see a fish jump...FISH IN HER! Boys dropping their tea everywhere 😂
My grandfather worked on the nets on the river Forth near Stirling. Clearly this was an exciting job as he remembered lots of details well into old age. His favourite story was when they shot the net at the mouth of the river Allan where it joins the Forth. Several floats dipped and they thought they'd caught a sunken branch or tree. It appeared to come in when they pulled so they thought it best to keep pulling and untangle it on the bank. It turned out to be a 30+lb salmon!!!
i came from generations of gills netters and remember lifting nets with my father as a boy in a clinker on strangford lough n.ire, it never seemed fair to me so i never took it up, i catch them with rod and line and let them go, seeing 1 swim off again is a better wage than 1 on the table
Great guys. Not so many left nowadays for the angler that pays a fortune to fish and return all fish, disgusting I’m thinking . Take , take and take until there is nothing left.
I’d have thought that they could’ve returned the hen fish to try to make it more sustainable
Iam Dutch and net Zander and trap Eels with fykenets...been to Scotland many times,even back in the 70ts,love this and gonna try to get the book....diffecult for me coz I never buy someting online...thanks and greets from the Netherlands
The good old days
I fish this stretch of river , i cant fathom if this is above or below the bridge .
A slaughter
The best job ever!
Loved the job myself, which is probably why I wrote the book, relive good memories.
Did this whit my grandfather on the river slaney enniscorthy Co wexford Ireland great memories
I hope there never is nets in the river again way more money in sport fishing over netting.
That’s when salmon tasted magic not like the shit now
It's quite simple, when it's not sustainable anymore it has to stop. Looking at it 30 years later it's hard to see an entire pool cleaned out. Yes culture is important but not at the expense of a species.
Wish they hadn't killed all those fish now
So thats how salmon stock are runnjng low
On winder the numbers have dropped ! Now its showing lucky if you get a fish now in a season most rivers I used to fish had good run of fish not now gone I hope I'll see them again !!!!