Yeah last time I tried to net piper I caught about 1000 herring and only 1 piper. Did you read this?

Got it from H&F Botany (the olds had given me a voucher for xmas)

These guys do good nets at a reso price there Saul;

Dragged at Pt Chev with Doubie once and all we got was YEMs. did it on the high on a calm evening.

It is a hard one Brett as you never know where they are going to be, but generally an hour or two before high tide and you have to go and look, hard to spot also, so good polaroids are a must as they swim just below the surface and see if you can see the odd one leap out of the water, piper scatter and leap horizontally an awesome sight when a kingie of kahawai round them up to see a fleeing school.

And get two broom sticks as well Brett to tie the top and bottom of the net so obviously on the deep end the bottom of the net is well down and with the person on the shoreline make sure they let the person out at the deep end remain well in front and they sort of hold the broom stick on a kind of 30 degree angle again to ensure the bottom of the net is well down.

just remember there are different mesh rules for different fish and if you catch them in the wrong sized net you have to release them. :link:
This chart is for the Northern Region

Chuck a stone or two out, piper jump when they flee if you land one within a few meters

does any one have any info on dragging for piper around the Foxton area?? Any help would be appreciated