Heavy Netting source

You could team up with NT, and let him practice his new toy on some angle iron and mesh..

Battens will rot in not time in such proximity to water, or at least become brittle enough to be useless for this application. Why not try this:

If that's too expensive, you might want to use concrete reinforcing mesh, which has holes about 5 inches across....again it will eventually rot, being made of steel, but not for quite a few years

walk around local docks and pick up a piece of old trawl net .... or pinch goal nets form local park !

In message , robgraham writes

You haven't said how big it is

I have a small pond and, having lost a few koi to the local heron, I covered it with plastic coated wire fencing

I bought a 5m x 1m roll - enough for my requirements

This is the stuff I use to hold down insulation over my giant rhubarb during the winter, but it is designed as a fence material.

Colin Bignell

Colin Bignell

In message , robgraham writes

Try the electric netting designed to control Rabbits or farm livestock.

farmcareuk.com for example.

You don't have to electrify it:-)

regards

Sorry - I thought you said Heavy Petting source.

Ha Ha

In message , cliper52 writes

It only leads to trouble and seat wetting...

Learn how to post newbie ...

top posting and sig sep would be useful topics for you to start with

Agreed and that comment is *so* UKRM Pipesque

In message , Me Here writes

It rubs off you know

Once when I was little I got stuck under the net on the pond. Make sure it's firmly fixed at the edges!

Andy

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember geoff saying something like:

Said Bill Clinton.

Why cover the top? why not fence the edge? Like you we survived our childhood dangers but ended up using plastic coated fencing set 3 - 4' away from the edge once our friends children called to play with our two.

Gio