Best boat telescoping landing net for redfish over 20lbs

I have a "good" one from the local outdoors store that feels about the same as every other big extendable net I've ever had. Its on 6 or 7 years of hoisting all manner of big shite, including a lot of giant redfish. Not sure how you're doing it, but i net them head first and grab the handle as close to the net as I can reach and hoist them over without tilting the net any, basically the same way you do a gaff. It also keeps them from balling up in the net and you can easily slide them out backwards on the deck.

Hollow aluminum tubes are weak, no avoiding it. I'd take more care to not put much stress on the handle and any ol net oughta work.

I never liked the telescoping nets. I don’t get the need for such a long net, maybe if you are in an offshore boat with really tall sides. Just get one with a solid handle. Redfish will come up and turn on their side when they are done and are usually easy to net right next to the boat.

Make sure to not lift the net parallel water with the whole weight of the fish pulling on the handle. Instead after netting the fish turn the handle vertical or perpendicular with the water and you shouldn’t snap any handles.

Are you lifting them like you are shoveling soil or letting the handle go vertical and lifting the net and fish like a sack of potatoes?
If you are lifting them with the handle horizontal, that extruded aluminum isn’t going the last long.
If you lift them with the net handle vertical, the net should last you a long time.

That’s how they broke. They not very deep so not easy to pull vertically. Dam “eco” nets.

Oh yea you need you one of those deep ones with fhe coated net so the hooks cant get caught up in the net fibers