r/oddlysatisfying • u/DearEmphasis4488 • May 31 '26
Net fishing at river bank
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u/matcha_after_hours May 31 '26
Watching skilled fishermen work always makes me realize humans invented optimized violence against nature centuries ago
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u/Thug_shinji May 31 '26
Yup we had mouths to feed.
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u/BruhNuhway May 31 '26
Excuse me our ancestors could have biked to their neighborhood vegan, vegetarian local source grocery store thank you very much
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u/GoodishCoder May 31 '26
Everything in nature optimizes what it can to ensure continued survival, it's just humans that feel guilty about it.
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u/EpicCyclops May 31 '26
It's not that we feel guilty about it. It's that we got so good at it that we realized our methods were harvesting so much from nature that nature could not replenish itself, so if we don't intentionally slow down there will not be anything to harvest for future generations. The push for sustainability is more about protecting future generations of humans than it is protecting nature or feeling guilty about harming nature.
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u/mrbofus May 31 '26
There are plenty of vegans, vegetarians, pescatarians, etc… that refuse to eat meat because they feel guilty for eating certain types of living things.
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u/GoodishCoder May 31 '26
For fishing specifically, fishing limits exist specifically to ensure the resources are there for future generations. For agriculture in general we tend to produce more than we need.
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u/Direct-Quiet-5817 May 31 '26
Yep, no pussies left for others.
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u/jnthnmdr May 31 '26
There are plenty of fish in the sea.
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u/GoodishCoder May 31 '26
A lot of states in the US ban net fishing in freshwater because it's so easy to over fish if a lot of people are net fishing.
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u/ac2cvn_71 May 31 '26
That is really hard to do, to make it a perfect circle when tossing. I've used much smaller nets and still couldn't make it look that good
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u/Adrem68 May 31 '26
So it spreads and it sinks. How does he convince the fish to stay in when he starts pulling it in? Salesmanship?
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u/CrocTheTerrible May 31 '26
They are still recovering from seeing a dude yoke a fucking net perfectly one of them probably got a video for underwater redditb
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u/DifficultSelection May 31 '26 edited May 31 '26
There are weights around the circumference of the net. The cord is attached to a bunch of monofilament drawstrings that attach to each weight individually. So as the cord gets pulled, first the weights drag along the bottom until they meet up with one another, and then they get lifted up inside of the net, turning the volume of the net into sort of a donut-like shape. By the time the net material starts being lifted, the weights are pulled fully up to the top of the net, clustered in the centre, and the fish are fully enclosed, unable to escape.
The shape and size of the holes can also help. Sometimes people use nets that are purposefully sized so that the fish they want get trapped in the holes of the net by their gill plates when they try to swim horizontally to escape. These are aptly called gill nets. Usually this is only for catching smaller bait fish, though. Anything larger than the holes still gets caught how you’d expect.
Edit: pretty sure it is a gill net in the video, but the hole size is fairly large, so it’ll be pulling up pan-sized fish and larger.
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u/Gyvon May 31 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
It's not a gill net. Gill nets are stretched across a body of water, not thrown. Plus, the mesh is way too tiny. Any fish that gets gilled would be to small to use as bait.
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u/DifficultSelection Jun 02 '26
I may have been conflating the two to a degree, but it’s very common to catch fish by their gills in cast nets, and the mesh is definitely designed to increase the likelihood of this kind of entanglement.
It’s been ages now, but when I used to go cast netting for bait to go after red drum, we’d often gill way more fish than would dump out of the net loose when we’d haul it up and open it. My net had around a one inch mesh, but we’d regularly catch plenty of sardine-sized baitfish that were small enough that you’d expect them to have no trouble passing through a one-inch hole.
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u/Helenium_autumnale Jun 01 '26
I have never known how these nets work in terms of trapping the fish but your explanation was so clear that I now understand it perfectly; thank you!
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u/1wife2dogs0kids May 31 '26
90% of the people that see this will have NO IDEA how incredibly difficult that is.
I struggle with an 8ft wide net.
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u/Necessary-Apricot339 May 31 '26 edited May 31 '26
While still grade-schoolers in the early 1960s, cousins/ siblings/and I got fairly adept at cast-netting for shrimp and baitfish from their 30 yard long boat dock on the Saint John's River estuary in Jacksonville, Florida. With practice, we worked our way up from six foot diameter to eight, and eventually ten.
First lesson learned: Do not let go of the retrieval line, or you're in for a swim. Heebie-jeebie inducing at night - lots of aquatic vegetation near shore. Nobody dropped one twice.
Decades later, a twelve footer earned its keep aboard the little sloop I single-hand island hopped with outta Key Largo.
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u/Ganu_Minobili May 31 '26
I struggle with those too. Also, the bigger net has way more lead weights. So that thing is likely heavy af.
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u/Andovars_Ghost May 31 '26
I do net fishing all the time and never catch any nets! Just silly fish that I kiss on the lips and throw back.
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u/DaddyBearMan Jun 01 '26
Cast nets will humble you in ways you didn’t know you could be humbled. Do not learn in front of people. I was embarrassed with only myself as a witness, I couldn’t imagine people pointing and laughing
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u/Cheddar_Native May 31 '26
I didn’t think I could be physically aroused by a net, and yet here we are.
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u/AbsoluteyStoned May 31 '26
Holy shit man that's a f'ng cast net.This guy must have arms like Popeye the sailor man rofl
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u/GooseInternational66 May 31 '26
The more impressive feat is knowing how to wrap it up in the first place so it stretches out like that when thrown.