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Night-time longnetting 2


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The baskets are made by my very own fair hands and are very light in weight. I,ve passed some on to a few people on here to try, mine are the "mark 1" models...LOL but the last two I have sent have had a couple of refinements. Mine also have squared fronts which is what I,ve always used and although the net will catch at times when picking up..it,s no big deal. One of mine that I sent away has been made into a bow front, and a very good job it looks but as mine sit behind the front seats in the car then space becomes an issue.

 

Regards Mapreader

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Sunday night and a mediocre wind from the sou-west was picking up , light rain was also forecast so I planned three drops, the first of 400 yds and the next two with 500. My mate was on one of his first time outings with me also. I usually only run 300 at this drop but the amount of rabbits I,d been seeing showed previously unoccupied buries were now being used. The drop isn,t straight forward but involves quit a few turns and we started to hit rabbits on the drop... in full holler mode!

 

The push in didn,t reveal a great deal of rabbits out on the feeding ground and the same followed when we got back to the nets...we accounted for a paltry 19 rabbits...five of them with advanced myxi. I,d killed a myxied one on this very road a few days prior to this...By now the wind had dropped completely and the rain that fell earlier had turned into a heavy dew.

 

I also noticed, on paunching the rabbits that most were not showing full stomachs..suggesting that they weren,t out in force feeding. Something that has happened before on this road.

 

Here,s the 19 rabbits

 

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I checked the feild out the following night...late...and saw there was still quite a few on the feild so it will be a late one next time!

 

On to last nights expedition, this time with a proper wind. Again a Sou-Wester. The plan was to do one of the drops that we did,nt get round to doing on Sunday. The first drop was going to be with 500 yds. To say the ground was rock solid was an understatement...so much so that I had to bar in around two thirds of the pegs...

 

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This pic WASN,T taken in the actual setting of the nets :doh: I can here you from here Moley...guess what mate...you,ve convinced me to go with the fibreglass pins when I source them from elsewhere! :wallbash::wallbash::signthankspin:

 

The pics aren,t the best as the flash seemed to be playing up...We hit quite a few doubles in the nets and around 15 yards of net was laid flat with rabbits in the net but obviously some will have gone over

 

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Err...don,t think these were Siamese twins!!!!DSCF0009Small-1.jpg

 

As usual a foot rope had to be bitten through as well...so much for dark and heavier bottom lines...had two bitten on Sunday as well!!!!

 

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This one,s a crap pic but I just couldn,t get the full scale of what was going on here..there were sixteen rabbits in around 15 to 20 yds of net...

 

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Told you it was crap...LOL

 

We did rather well on this drop as the previous best was around the 35 mark....tonight we took 71 rabbits...all clean .

 

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Onto the second drop of the night and a 300 yarder...I was forced to come in from the "wrong" way on this one due to the wind veering more than normal...it,s wrong because of the way the feild lies...it puts you closer onto the feeding area, but it was the only way. Another cock-up was I used my mates net on the end thinking it was a 100 yarder only to fall 15 yds short of the full set thereby costing us around 8 to 10 rabbits ish!

 

The catch from this field was 33...

 

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The total take for the night came to 104 rabbits and only two showed signs of myxi. a personal best for me and a good start to my mates long-netting career!!!! You wil have to take my word for the number as I wasn,t going to mess about lining them all up!!!

 

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I hope you enjoyed the pics and may I say that at no time at all was a net set in UNDER one minute...nothing at all UNIQUE was used to make this catch....and all rabbits went to a good home... LOL!!!

 

Regards Mapreader

Smashing pics and the quick set systym look different to the usal i like it well done mate :thumbs:
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it doesn't look like you have straps on the basket, what is that at the top? is that padded at the top, do you just hang that lot over behind your neck as i can't see a great deal of detail being as its dark

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Strewth mapreader, great night well done. This might be a silly question, but what do you mean when you say bar in the pegs. I've a bit of ground that I've not netted before because the ground's too stony to get the pegs in. Well done mate. :toast::toast::toast:

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