That's the just a zoomed in shot of his head, so that's why its a bit fuzzy. It was a nice (and really colored!!) 13lber caught right at where the Wallace kicks into the Skykomish...Ring nets(I think hoop nets are the same) look like this:


They are really tough to use out of a boat, but they work really well cause the crab's get in to the net with out any problem. What happens is that when the line is slack, the top ring sinks down and it lays flat on the bottom. Then, when you start pulling up the lines, the top ring pops up and it looks exactly like the picture, and the crab can't get out..