Cleaning info?
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tortoise100
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you know it's been a good days fishing when you have to hang up your landing net and weigh sling on the washing line maybe even hoping it will rain just to clean them off a bit.
Morespiders
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Leave them, there supposed to smell
Neil Maidment
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Drying in the sunshine is the best way of sanitising nets and mats. Trouble is there doesn't seem to be much sunshine of late.
Strangely, my wife won't let me hang them up to dry indoors!
Strangely, my wife won't let me hang them up to dry indoors!
Mark Wintle
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The best bet is to quickly rinse unhooking mats and landing nets at the waterside when packing up as this will get rid of most of the bream slime. Then hang up to dry when you get home.
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The sun kills most of the smell, just hang them outside.
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Whatever you do don't forget and leave them in your car/van for two hot days like I did smelled like someone had died in there
Paul H
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Like Mark, a quick dunk in the river/lake before home and then leave them hung up outside until dry.
I once had to hose my landing net down, but only as I'd had particularly slimy eel in it.
I once had to hose my landing net down, but only as I'd had particularly slimy eel in it.
Mr Cholmondeley-Corker (PaSC)
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My net and mat are still in the car since Tuesday.
The lads at work think I've had a woman in the car...
The lads at work think I've had a woman in the car...
Mithrandir
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It is best to hang nets and mats up in the sun, the ultraviolet kills bacteria and disease. If I cant do that as it is never sunny in the UK, I rinse them out in a bit of soapy water and leave them to dry hanging in the garage
Hosing them down helps as the chlorine in the water will kill off a lot of bacteria and smell, but leave them outside for 24 hours to dry. even on a dull day enough UV light will kill the diseases and with KHV and others, we need to protect our fisheries.
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This is what I do too, rinse them off and leave them out to dry properly.
The only trouble I have with leaving them in the garden to dry out is that the slugs and snails love whatever is on them !!!
So it's a toss up on fish or gastopods slime.
So it's a toss up on fish or gastopods slime.