05-18-2003, 05:04 PM
[cool]Hey HA69, glad you liked the writeup and the pics. As a few of my Utah fishing friends have discovered, I'm always up for a "hookup" with BFTers from my former home and favorite fishing state. Just PM me with the details of your time in Arizona, and we will make something happen.
I have been using one form or another of those baskets for a whole lotta years. I have tried using the nylon mesh ones, but found that they confined and suffocated fish. For the past fifteen years or so I have been getting the big baskets from Bass Pro Shops. They are 19" wide and 30" deep. They can hold more fish than I can carry, and the fish are usually still flopping when I dump them on ice for the trip home to the fillet board. I have had catfish up to fifteen pounds in one of those baskets, along with my keeper crappies, sunfish or whatever.
Here's a pic from the BassPro Catalog. The large basket, (A) is the one I get. It is $12.99 and lasts for a couple years of hard use. The flotation is a cheap "noodle" the kids use in the swimming pool. I just run a rope around through the middle and tie the premeasured and cut ends. Then I secure the float to the top ring of the net, with heavy fishing line, and tuck the handles of the net into the ring to hold it up right.
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I have been using one form or another of those baskets for a whole lotta years. I have tried using the nylon mesh ones, but found that they confined and suffocated fish. For the past fifteen years or so I have been getting the big baskets from Bass Pro Shops. They are 19" wide and 30" deep. They can hold more fish than I can carry, and the fish are usually still flopping when I dump them on ice for the trip home to the fillet board. I have had catfish up to fifteen pounds in one of those baskets, along with my keeper crappies, sunfish or whatever.
Here's a pic from the BassPro Catalog. The large basket, (A) is the one I get. It is $12.99 and lasts for a couple years of hard use. The flotation is a cheap "noodle" the kids use in the swimming pool. I just run a rope around through the middle and tie the premeasured and cut ends. Then I secure the float to the top ring of the net, with heavy fishing line, and tuck the handles of the net into the ring to hold it up right.
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