The nets these guys use are handmade. They use a rope between maybe 75 to 500 feet long. They tie plastic coke bottles to this main rope at 50 foot intervals on a 3 or 4 foot length of line. This way boats can usually drive between the coke bottles without snagging the nets. The net itself is 5 to 10 feet deep, made out of fishing line that is knotted together. They tie the rope to the trees on either end and let it sit there. The fish swim into the net and get tangled up in it. The guys obviously know where the fish are, and they tie the nets very close to and in amongst the heaviest tree forests. A lot of the good looking points that had trees all over them running way off shore were just covered in nets. It's a bum deal because even if the bass are somehow smart enough not to get caught, the bass' main food source which is the tilpia are going to be heavily impacted by these nets. We did catch some fish that were super skinny and other guys reported similar catches. 4lbers that should have weighed 7. This is a big lake, and not all the fish are like this, but certainly the food supply has been affected in some areas of the lake by the heavy netting.