A New Seine, Well, mostly.

I have always been a "Seine Junky".  I have always been fascinated by the multitude of variables in net design.  I have seen great fishermen kick butt with a mediocre net and I've seen mediocre fishermen fail with a brand new custom built seine. But I've always believed, you greatly improve your chances of a successful fishing season by "knowing" you have a well built net.  That means every stretch (10 fathoms) of the seine is accurately measured and assembled correctly.  Right to the inch. The fist pic is of the Bunt, or moneybag end of my net. The larger blue line is 5/8" Blue Steel Spectra. 47,000 lbs. of breaking strength. The smaller  blue line which is "stuck" through the larger is 1/4" spectra, and also very strong. The webbing is 1.7mm, double knotted spectra.  15 years ago, the construction of the Bunt end of the seine would have been very different. It would have been entirely made of nylon fibers, At least 5 times as heavy (75lbs. v. 15lbs.) but at a fraction of the strength.  The second pic is of the cork-line border collar.  Instead of using #84 or #96 round braid "parachute chord" nylon I'm using a new extruded polyolefin fiber which is water proof, stronger and far lighter than the nylon. It's the sky blue webbing right under the cork-line. It's 5 meshes deep instead of 3, and the total weight of the collar was less than 100 lbs. for a net that is 1500 feet long.