Tying down the gill net every few metres by attaching a 40 to 50cm rope between the float line and the lead line will dramatcally improve the fishing efficiency of the net when targeting flounder and other flat fish species.
If the net is not tied down it will catch excessive numbers of undersized snapper and trevally.
Legal sized snapper - and many other species - taken in a flounder net have to be returned unharmed to the sea because the minimum mesh size for set netting snapper is 125mm while the mesh size for flounder is 114mm
