FRABILLSeine Net | Top-Performance Seine Nets

Easy to assemble and easy to break down for storage. Just what I wanted.

I wish they would have added an eyelet hook to attach a rope to. that would be nice.

I live on a small lake and use an umbrella net 3 or more times per week to obtain fish bait and for food for my pet turtles. I only bought this product because I wanted the net part. I already had a metal frame from a Ranger umbrella net that I had bought previously. The Frabill net part will do, but it is not that great because the mesh is wider than I would like, as well as stiff. As for the Frabill frame, no instructions were provided, so I don’t know what was missing from the box but, there is no way that the frame of a functional drop net could be constructed from what I received. Further, the struts of the frame are thin and flimsy. This is the third brand of 42” umbrella net that I have used. The Promar was the worst, as its frame design caused the net to slip off, making the entire rig spring apart in a spectacular spray of water. After modifying it, I still use the Promar net part. The best was the Ranger net which, at this writing, Amazon no longer offers. I have had three of them and wore them out with heavy use (and storage outside) at a rate of about one every 2 years. With the Ranger, I have caught hundreds of bait fish, dozens of turtles (not on purpose and released), 2 eating size-catfish and 1 bass (also released), and 2 water snakes. I can’t recommend the Frabill umbrella net to anyone who doesn’t already have a functional umbrella net frame.

Works as expected

Definitely caught minnows like we wanted and easy to use