The Art Of Net Casting
February 25, 2008
By Milt Inman
Milt Inman is chief photographer for Skinny Moose Media and U.S. Hunting Today.
Some days ago, I was at a body of water taking photos of anything that looked interesting to me. I got pictures of birds, animals, reptiles, flowers, landscapes and people. Then I saw a man standing up in a boat move into a cove near me. I wondered what he was looking for. He was not fishing as near as I could tell but every once in a while he would throw something out in the water that would land with a soft whispering sound and disappear into the water.
After a few minutes, he pulled on a rope and hauled a mess of white stuff into the boat, shook it out and threw some things back into the water, which in turn were gobbled up by a large bird that followed the boat around.
Now this happened over and over again, so I thought he must be fishing with a net of some kind. I am from the state of Maine where net fishing like this is not legal and being in Florida seeing this done is all new to me.
I was told by some natives that this way of fishing was called Net Casting and the big bird was a pelican.
It takes a lot of time and practice to be able spread this large net out and land it flat on the water. A beautiful sight to see. Thats why I call it “THE ART OF NET CASTING!”
Milt Inman
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I’m from Fla., and I cast a net for bait and to eat, have for 30 yrs. or so…Looks like the man does a good job on the last photo..probably a 12 ft. net and somewhere near the coast. You can catch almost any saltwater fish, as I have,as long as they’re legal length, and in season and in legal numbers allowed. In fresh water you can only catch and keep bait or other than gamefish..nice photos, but that’s some hard work if you keep after it long.
What’s interesting Jes, is when these photos were being taken, the Florida Fish and Wildlife officers were nearby. They had been checking on reports that guys here (Lake Menard?)had been netting game fish illegally.
OH yeah! And they were checking up on a reported sighting of a family of panthers.
ya gotta watch those guys from Fish and Game, they’ll getya every time, even if you just think about it! Keeps me on the straight and narrow, fer sure! Hats off!