[quote=“Vladimir, post:39, topic:1121”]
They were originally straight.
[/quote]・・・Yes❣
Difference in angle is difference in usage
掬いタモ ＝ Straight handle・・・Normal usage
腰タモ ＝ angled handle・・・Use remains sandwiched between the waist belt
please refer
https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fk3yi8anpontan/folder/1295216.html
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Thank you very much for the link, I gladly reread the blog. Thank you Todoroki-San.
David,
My Grandfather made gill nets for catching fish along with making crab pots. This brings back many fond memories of watching him work in the back yard. He also had several oyster beds he maintained.
I made money in early Spring scraping the barnacles off the bottom of the boats and painting them.when I was a kid. 
I own and fish both a Mankyu and a Traillite Designs tamo that are angled. I really like the form. I suppose you could hold one upside down to do what you ask…sort of a ladle scoop, but I think no matter the orientation the handle is not long enough to prevent one from changing their posture to net a fish. I feel the angle may actually increase reach with the normal orientation…if you hold it from the handle end. There is a sort of ergonomics that seems to make sense over a inline net. It also allows on to coke up on the grip and hold the net in a variety of ways. For small brookies…I forget the name of the angler…but I use his method of bouncing the fish into the net…like catching a baseball…hahahaa. This is very effective with this design. Small brooktrout will often wiggle free, but this bounce method doe not give them the time to pull a Houdini.
There is a bunch of tamo making links at the bottom of the page.
I just bought a beautiful yellow to red fade net bag from Mankyu.
I got new chest waders a few weeks back and decided to make a chest pouch thing that clips onto the D-rings on the front of the waders. I also added belt/hip belt straps and some neck strap attachment points for different use cases. I’ve used it 3 times now and am happy with it!
Looks great, I was thinking of custom making something myself as I’m not totally happy with any of my current bags. I like my Yonah the most, but often want more room in it. The pouches inside also don’t fit my slightly larger C&F fly boxes. They fit a tacky day pack fine. Are you using a regular sewing machine? I want to make a bag out of this material: https://www.ula-equipment.com/product/camouflage-x-pac-x50/
I use a Singer Heavy Duty 4411. It’s more capable of sewing several layers than a regular sewing machine, but you could sew a bag like this (that doesn’t really have a ton of layers) with just about any sewing machine. But the material I used is X-Pac VX21 (I believe…), which isn’t as thick/heavy as the X-Pac X50 that you linked to. My machine wouldn’t have any problem with it (I sew through multiple layers of 1000d Cordura and webbing all the time), but I don’t know what you’re using or how capable it is. I think you’d probably be OK, but you might have to hand-turn the needle using the hand wheel to help it get through the thickest sections. Not a huge deal.
(For the record, X-Pac isn’t my favorite material because I think it looks pretty crap after a bit of use. Looks kinda wrinkly, like it needs to be ironed, and it just gets worse with time. You can see it a bit in the pic below. I just used it because I had some left over from other projects. But if you like that look or don’t mind how it looks, it’s a good material to work with. It’s light, durable, and stiff.)
Last year I made basically an exact copy, size-wise, of the Yonah bag to see if I liked it (again, see pic below), but found that it wasn’t really the right size for me, either. It was too big for some things I wanted to use it for and too small for others.
I don’t have a sewing machine just thinking about trying it out. That Singer looks like a good option. I do like the camo xpac feel better than the fabric in your picture or the kind that zimmerbuilt seems to use. The Yonah pack material is stiffer and doesn’t really seem to wrinkle nearly as much. What fabric do you like better? The bag I want to make would be in between the larger Yonah and the Zimmerbuilt guide sling. Small enough to use as a fanny pack but a good size for a sling pack. I also want to do a different layout than what the other packs I’ve looked at are using.
@Chas_K Yes, that is a thing, but I wanted one that also has belt or hip belt loops. The Patagonia one doesn’t. Also, my version cost a few dollars 
@cc121, this fabric is awesome. It is a bit softer/more pliable than X-Pac (I’m not saying that’s better or worse, just different). The gridstop is a bit lighter. Very durable stuff, and I think it wears and looks better long-term than X-Pac.
Super interested in this conversation/ideas and what might come of it. I think these DIY packs are “next level”.
Chris. Would your idea of a pack carry a rod or two? Sounds like someone probably a bit smaller than the Zimmerbuilt Sling Lite?
I think ideally yeah, but I’d also like to get the smaller rods like the Tenkara mini and kowasa inside it. The Yonah is too tight, they almost fit but it needs to be wider to accommodate them.
I also have an idea similar to Umpqua’s zerosweep but I don’t really like how they did it. The concept of not having any dangling stuff on the outside of the bag is appealing. I seem to constantly snag the stuff on the pack both when fishing and moving around. It helps to swing it behind, but even then I’ll catch branches, weeds, etc. I want it to be snag free in use.
That fabric does seem nice, although I really like the camo look of the x50, I’ll have to try both. Where do you get the zippers, buckles and webbing?
I super like the Xpac X50 (black Multicamo), it’s dead sexy. I am inquiring about the possibility of Chris Zimmer making me a Sling Lite in that material.
The sling lite is nice, I just wish it was more functional as a chest pack. That’s where the larger Yonah shines.
Where do you get the zippers, buckles and webbing?
There are lots of places to get this stuff, but Ripstop By the Roll is a good one to start with (though they’re out of stock on several things due to big holiday sales). Here are links to some specific components that you might find helpful:
Other sites with these kinds of components are Quest Outfitters, Rockywoods, Strapworks, Dutchware, DIY Gear Supply, etc.
Let me know if you have any other MYOG (make your own gear) or DIY questions. I’ve made all sorts of this kind of stuff for backpacking, hiking, car camping, tenkara, etc.
Wow this is tons of great info, thanks! I’m going to start digging into it, lots to figure out.
Wow, some fine examples of well made sewing projects, and lots of information about material sources. I had not heard of rockywoods, and did not know the new owner of ula-equipment had started selling fabric, it has been a while since I last looked at their website. 
I had just crossed over from being terrible at sewing seams, to successfully completing projects with only one go, and being at least ‘ok’ – when warm weather arrived and my attempts at sewing ended, though I still had a few projects in mind to make. One learns little tricks to dealing with slippery fabric as you go along.
Lucky me my wife sews a lot, and has several sewing machines for me to try out. {she just donated a Husqvarna Jade to my son and daughter-in-law, though I think Jon is better at sewing than she is}
She first first gave me a Bernina, but I never got the hang of getting it to start sewing slowly, and always got a bad start sewing seams.
Later I switched to her Singer sewing machine, and we were much more compatible, no more problems with it starting very slowly. And my projects turned out better.
Kind of amazing now days how capable of a sewing machine one can buy at a fairly low price. And sewing machines were a pretty revolutionary invention when first introduced. [ or high price too. My wife has some fancy software driven machine that sews all kinds of embroidery patterns - worth every penny as it keeps her busy and not pestering me 
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+1 with @dwalker. I wish I had the skill @TenkaraAddict has to create my “perfect pack”. My wife sews very well but isn’t willing to put up with my nitpicking about feature refinements.
