The Superior Salmon Gye and Salmon Gye landing nets are designed to give the best strength-to-weight ratio and will land a salmon in excess of 40lb and have a unique diamond alloy rim and hexagonal shaft resulting in a very light strong frame that neatly cuts through the water.
The Salmon Gye landing net features a black knotless mesh pan-style net bag (featured on the right) and the Superior Salmon Gye landing net features a hand-finished deluxe knotless mesh with top loops net bag (see below).
Jock Tait, head ghillie on the Upper Redgorton beat on the River Tay in Scotland put this product through its trials over a period of two years. Jock uses the Superior Salmon Gye net with the ground spike and salmon gye peel sling. These accessories are available for the Salmon Gye and Superior Salmon Gye nets.
The Ground Spike is a popular add-on to the salmon gye net. Simply screw into the rubber end and your net can be used as a wading or walking stick.
The Salmon Gye Peel Sling is an accessory that allows you to carry your net 'hands-free', release and despatch for use whilst keeping control of your catch.
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The Superior Salmon Gye landing net is due to feature in a fishing programme on ITV titled ‘Salmon Journey’ this September.
When the crew were filming at the Newtyle beat on the Tay a beautiful fish was landed successfully with a Fastnet Superior Salmon Gye landing net. Here is what the Ghillie had to say on his blog:
“Here's Donnie Whiteford's fly caught springer just prior to release. This beautiful sea-liced Tay springer was hooked in the neck of the Cottar Pool at around 9.30am on the deadly 'Park Shrimp' fly. Donnie was up on Newtyle today as part of the Scottish Media Group filming party who are collecting excellent footage from the Tay, Spey, Tweed, Dee & Esk's for their forth coming Autumn series titled 'Salmon Journey'. Today they filmed 2 of the 3 Newtyle springers being played, landed & released amongst other interesting footage. Very well done Donnie & I can't wait now to see the actual programme later this year. Derek King landed a lovely 8 lbs springer up in our Ferry Pool this afternoon, which he carefully returned. This was Derek's very first visit to Newtyle so very well done too”.
Jock Monteith