How do i tie my top bouys on my hoop nets ???

[Regor]

I went a little different route that works pretty good for me, and it allows for adding more rope as required.

My buoys have weights added as shown elsewhere, and allow for a light on top.

I made a leader for my buoy. The end of the leader must be large enough to allow for the buoy to go through it:


Now I'm feeding the leader through my main rope:


Feed the leader around the buoy, and you've got your connection:


IF you need to add more rope, you've got more rope with loops spliced in the end and ready to go.

Now I'm hoopin, and have too much slack. I wrap it around the buoy, going on both sides of the light. I add the cable cuff to the bottom of the buoy and catch the rope. The rope is so light that this does not affect the buyoancy of the buoy at all, and when I'm pulling the net up, the buoy and all that rope is in the yak, and now I pull straight up and have no extra rope or hardware in the way between me and the Lobster :



Here's the spliced/looped end connected to the net:



And here's the whole thing put together:




Happy Hoopin
Greg