My favorite for general use is made by Ranger. It features a pear shaped bag that at first glance looks too shallow, but being made of rubber, it stretches with the weight of a fish. It has a nice wide hoop and solid handle.

I have netted hundreds if not thousands of silvers with this net and it continues to be my favorite for fisheries where I am letting them go. It is a shade small for chinook shaped salmons, but they will fit.

A big drawback to the rubber bag is drag in the water. As with all nets, the netter should keep the net out of the water until ready to make a quick, sure scoop, but even so, the extra drag takes some getting used to.




Also big enough for two.



For dedicated chinark fishing, I have a Beckman fin saver, which I love dearly. It is quite stiff, but that has yet to cost me a fish.