Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Seining pictures of my pond I'm draining down

Cecil,
First of all your perch are mind blowing, before seeing some of your pictures I had no idea yellow perch could reach 15" as I had only caught up to 11 or 12" before. Looking at your seining pictures reminded me of doing it as a kid at our cabin and catching all sorts of interesting fish. Pretty cool experience for kids, except the one who lost rock paper scissors and had to walk through the pickeral weed! My grandfather's uncles had always told him, and therefore he told us, to make sure and keep the bottom of the net as the lead edge. After trying our way and losing a lot of good bait along the way we finally listened to grandpa and sure enough it was much more efficient. Is this something you have noticed as well? As you bring the nets together towards shore(and it begins to bend in the middle) we learned this is crucial to make sure that the bottom of the net is ahead of the top. It's because at the point when the two people on either end have pulled it to shore and are joining the ends together the bottoms will line up first and trap the fish in the MIDDLE of the net and not allow them to swim up and down in the water column. Clear as mud? I'm the type that learns from being shown something not telling it so excuse me if that's confusing. I just thought it might be beneficial to some people reading to know that this is a lot harder than it looks and there are ways to increase the catch rate while working your butt off! I've learned a lot from reading your posts over the years so thank you for your contributions to the forum