A landing net is one of the most convenient pieces of fishing gear.

Getting hooks
tangled in the net
is one of fishing's
most inconvenient moments.

The company
Frabill searched
for a solution, coming
up with Crankbait Netting.

The netting, available in several models within Frabill’s Conservation Series of nets, features hexagonal holes.

The company tried every shape “known to man,” it says, discovering that six-sided holes prevented snags best.

But that’s only half the story, the company says.

Preventing hook points from piercing the material was also a goal.

Crankbait Netting features a vinyl coating for that, instead of the old woven mesh.

Vinyl coating was nothing new in nets.

Frabill for years had covered its top-of-the-line nets with vinyl, not only to discourage snagging, but to protect fish, saving protective slime coats, and not battering scales, fins and gills.

But Crankbait Netting is built with a more substantial vinyl coating, and the company developed a technique to treat the net material, so that the dipped vinyl coating was like that.

The technique is unique to Frabill’s landing nets, the company says.

The landing nets are the most advanced in fishing, Frabill says.