What is this fine netting for?

[Zak]

I bought a mystery grab box of tackle at a thrift shop for ten bucks. There's about ten bucks worth of fly tying material in the box, plus lures and lead etc.

There are several 'skeins' of this very fine and fragile netting:

What's it for? I'm guessing maybe it is for making bunches of eggs, but that stuff is usually egg colored.

Maybe it is a minnow gill net?

 

[TicTokCroc]

Yea that mesh size is a bit big for a spawn sack. Fishnet stockings?

 

[NRC]

I bought a mystery grab box of tackle at a thrift shop for ten bucks. There's about ten bucks worth of fly tying material in the box, plus lures and lead etc.

There are several 'skeins' of this very fine and fragile netting:
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What's it for? I'm guessing maybe it is for making bunches of eggs, but that stuff is usually egg colored.

Maybe it is a minnow gill net?

That my friend is a hairnet. Or at least a dead ringer for one.

 

[Divad]

Smelt net?

 

[Zak]

It flattens out into a single layer rectangle. There are maybe identical 15-20 pieces of it this size. that makes me think it was some kind of smelt or bait gill net that someone cut into smaller pieces.

 

[Buzzy]

DRIFT: I bought some boobies (booby flies) years ago from a Brit, he used nylon stocking material to encapsulate his "booby eyes" (I don't think that's what you have, Zak).

 

[Otter]

Hair net

 

[NRC]

It flattens out into a single layer rectangle. There are maybe identical 15-20 pieces of it this size. that makes me think it was some kind of smelt or bait gill net that someone cut into smaller pieces.

A hairnet for blockheads?

 

[TicTokCroc]

A hair net would have some elastic band material.

 

[Zak]

A hair net would have some elastic band material.

This does not (I think, it all in the chest freezer now).

 

[Zak]

Anyone want a bunch of lead sinkers (including some 'fancy' ones) and treble hooks? I'll put up a free stuff post but happy to give it away here, too.

 

[dep]

hair net for an Atlantic salmon

 

[Brute]

A very bad parachute…

 

[Zak]

Giant Asian Hornet Trap...

 

[Zak]

River seine net for Giant Toebiter waterbeetles?

 

[Otter]

A hair net would have some elastic band material.

Some fabrics can be made elastic just by the way they’re woven. For example, 100% cotton T-shirts are stretchy.

 

[Yard Sale]

Don't they use something like this to paint popper heads? @Billy

 

[Zak]

River seine net for Giant Toebiter waterbeetles?

True story: A giant toebiter water beetle saw me from the water, came up into the rock I was standing on in my Chacos, and chased me off it.

I think they grow up to be Dobson flies, which also scare me.

 

[RCF]

It is used to fish for gars. The teeth of the Gar would get stuck in the netting.

 

[Zak]

It is used to fish for gars. The teeth of the Gar would get stuck in the netting.

In Vermont people fish for gar with a piece of poly rope (sometimes with a tiny hook somewhere to make it legal). It gets stuck in their teeth.