American Style Multifilament Fishing Net / Frisbee Fishing Cast Net with Plastic Coated Iron Sinker

A cast net is a circular net with weights around its outer perimeter, thrown or cast in such a manner that it opens out and falls over a small school of fish, trapping them underneath. Most twentieth-century cast nets have hand lines, one end of which is attached to the throwers wrist. The other is attached to lines (brails) that go through a ring at the center of the net and are secured at intervals to the outer perimeter. After the net has been cast over fish and has settled to the bottom, the band line is used to pull it in. This closes the outer circle of the net, the brail lines pulling the weights in to the center of the net.

The number of starting knots (mesh) you use to begin your net will determine, in part, the amount of parachute effect the net has it sinks to the bottom. The more pronounced parachute effect, the more the fish will be able to bounce around under its DOME without scooting out from under it before the leading circle settles to the bottom. By contrast, a flat net will allow the fish to bounce off and escape straight out from under it before the leadline reaches the bottom.

We can make 3 kinds of cast net:

Drawstring cast net, bottom pocket cast net and top pocket cast net.

Below is the difference between drawstring type and bottom pocket type.

drawstring cast net is American style cast net, is popular in USA, Europe, and South America.

Bottom pocket cast net is Japanese style cast net, is popular in Asian countries.

Both of these two kinds of cast net could use monofilament netting and multifilament netting.