I'm still new to this whole DB thing and am using a net on the river for the first time. Yesterday we netted some summer-runs that we released. Two of these were embarrassingly difficult. My net is supposed to be easy on steelhead and is a much finer mesh than the normal salmon net. These two fish and their hooks got really tangled and it took us way too long to set them free. We were fortunate they swam strongly away. One fish was hooked on a jig and the other on a plug with a single siwash. I couldn't imagine netting a fish with a K-15 and two treble hooks with that net. You would never get the thing out.

This leads me to two questions:

What is the best style/brand of net for netting and releasing steelhead?

Or

Do you simply just never net a fish you've determined will be released?

Thanks in advance!