Rive R016 3 Piece Landing Net Handle 2.7m
You’ve got your fish hooked and you’ve brought it almost to the bank either with your match fishing rod or pole – now what? You need to find a way to get your fish onto dry land. When you’re coarse or match fishing there is only one way to achieve this; using a landing net. Landing nets are some of your most vital pieces of kit as they allow you to get you fish from the water to your unhooking mat for keepnet with as little trauma as possible. Often manufactured with extra fine mesh, these landing nets are purpose designed for the delicate scales and fins of your coarse capture. However, a net on its own isn’t going to get you far. In order to properly land your fish, you also need a top quality landing net handle. Luckily, this is where Rive has stepped in.
The Rive R016 Three Piece Landing Net Handle is the perfect tool for the angler who likes targeting carp and other coarse fish on the UK’s commercial fisheries and it has been designed with the specific pressures of commercial angling in mind. This landing net handle is 2.7m in length, which is almost 9ft in old money. This is an exceptionally long landing net handle which allows you to reach incredibly far over the water in order to land your catch. This is ideal for using when you’re pole fishing, as it ensures that the amount of shipping your have to do before you get your capture into landing distance is significantly reduced. What’s more, if you’re fishing with a traditional rod and reel setup, this is ideal for landing fish in high or snaggy waters, too.
The Rive R016 Three Piece Landing Net Handle comes in a white colour, with rod accents. This is a fairly unique colour scheme and it will certainly ensure that you stand out in your local commercial – for all the very best reasons. As the name suggests, this landing net handle comes in three sections – with the final two sections attached together with a screw head in order to ensure that complete structural integrity of the landing net handle. This landing net handle has a total weight of 350g. This ensures that you’re never struggling to hold it out over the water, even when the net is sodden with water and pulled down by the weight of your capture. The landing net handle has a transport size of 1.5m, ensuring that it can comfortably fit into most pole or rod holdalls.
Rive is a brand which is committed to manufacturing match fishing excellence. The brand is most famous for its impressive range of seat boxes, all of which are among the highest regarded on the continent. However, the brand does manufacture much more than simply seat boxes and all the tackle in the Rive range is produced to the brands infallibly high standards. This includes items of Rive luggage, accessories, and this landing net handle. What’s more, the Rive brand is built on a tradition of innovation and progression. Ever since 1987, when the brand was first established, the company has worked hard to ensure that none of the items it produces are quite like any other on the market and the brand prides itself on its forward thinking tackle design. The French brand directly translates to ‘bank’ and this really encapsulates the brand’s thinking: everything Rive produces has been designed with life on the bank in mind.