FISHRITE WEIGH SLING COMBI
Price: £ 29.99

Combined weigh sling/unhooking mats have become very popular – and for good reason. On the one hand you have an unhooking mat to protect the fish and on the other hand an excellent weigh sling to hold the fish comfortably whilst hanging it off the scales.


Zipped up and safe while being weighed
It’s a simple job to zero the scales to the empty mat, place the fish on the mat, unhook it, take two or three photos, making sure you’re kneeling down and holding the fish low so that if it should jump out of your hands it doesn’t have far to go and has a safe and soft landing. Then you zip up the sling, hang it on the scales and make a note of the reading.

Then it’s a simple of job of carrying the fish, still safely zipped up in the sling, to the water’s edge, lower it into the water, unzip it, and hold the fish upright just below the surface while it recovers enough to swim off.

This weigh sling combi from FISHRITE is just about big enough for carp to about 30lb and is an ideal size for chub and barbel and other smaller species. (I’m always puzzled why so many specialist anglers think unhooking mats are only for carp.).

The sling is made from a soft nylon material, is well cushioned, pegs down, has a strong two-way zip and comes in its own stink bag.

FISHINGmagic VERDICT

I’m very rarely without this mat whenever I go fishing. It is an ideal size for barbel and makes it as easy as it’s going to get for unhooking, weighing and returning the fish.

Handy too, for sitting on when doing a spot of wandering from swim to swim.

Buy it online at the FISHRITE website.

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