fitec super spreader

[fishinfreak19D]

i been workin my way up on castnets, started with a 3 footer and i move up a foot every time i tear one up,, i just ordered a 6' fitec super spreader, just wonderin if anyone has experience with it and if its a decent net,, i plan on keepin this one a while,, i burn thru em pretty quick

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[fishinfreak19D]

well the net came in today,, here are my first impressions, the net looks alright, feels good, the mono mesh does feel a little on the weak side, but it opens like a dream but..... the weights aint lead, it claims 3/4 pound per foot,,, it really dont seem like it,, seems my 4 footer is heavier, and its pretty slow sinking, think its possible to remove the weights that are on it now and replace with lead, maybe to 1 1/4 pound per foot, or is that gonna be a huge chore?

[smhmc6]

I think it might be easier to just add some lead instead of removing all the other stuff and replacing. I think if you get some twine and run it through a weight from an old net, then wrap around the existing lead line a few times then move on to the next spot, wrap the twine around the lead line run another weight onto the twine wrap it, move to the next spot so on so forth that would work pretty good. Just make sure and evenly space them out. It would take a little work but it shouldn't be that bad.

By the way, a few years ago I went from throwing a 3' net to a 7' ss-1000 and the amount of bait I caught went dramatically up. I think you'll be happy with using a bigger net even if it doesn't have the fastest sink rate.

[ko3579]

I just added weight to two of the nets I have with weight on them like the ones you describe. To me there not worth having without adding weight, they dont sink fast enough. I added mine like this, first thing I did is counted the number of spaces, my 6 ft net had 69 spaces, and I added 23 1.5 oz egg sinkers. I added them 1 every 3 spaces and I super glue the nots, I used nylon trot like line to attach the weights and I superglued the knots. I did the same on a 4 ft net just added one every 5 spaces.

[Longjohn119]

well the net came in today,, here are my first impressions, the net looks alright, feels good, the mono mesh does feel a little on the weak side, but it opens like a dream but..... the weights aint lead, it claims 3/4 pound per foot,,, it really dont seem like it,, seems my 4 footer is heavier, and its pretty slow sinking, think its possible to remove the weights that are on it now and replace with lead, maybe to 1 1/4 pound per foot, or is that gonna be a huge chore?

Don't worry about strength that netting is much stronger than the all mono nets you are used to using. A couple of years ago I pulled in a extra heavy duty shopping cart with mine. I got it to the dock but couldn't lift it out of the water because it would hook under the dock (arms just weren't long enough) so I held it up with one hand and untangled it with the other. I had no choice but to leave the cart on the ramp underwater. The next night (a Friday) I went back down with my boat but before I put in I grabbed my homemade gaff hook, walked to the dock and drug the hook through the water and pulled the cart up the ramp (It was low water and luckily no one had used that side) A couple of guys I know where there throwing a net and you should have seen the look on their faces when I hauled that big ol' cart up out of the water.

I still have the net and have only had to fix a couple of holes neither of which was caused by the cart incident. It's on it's 3rd or 4th season and I usually only get a couple of years out of the other conventional nets.

A tip - use both hands to throw it and not one like the instructions and you'll not only get a better spread you'll be able to finesse your throws a lot better. One handed is OK it you just want to throw it out as far as you can but if you try to throw short the net won't open correctly and trying to throw it in close to objects is nearly impossible to do consistently one handed.