This is a review of product over a solid year of use. Having used standard leaf rakes in the past, the super tight mesh of this rake is key. The ability of this net to both glide completely submerged and capture copius amounts of particulate matter in stride while maintaining adequate skim velocity full clip, is phenomenal. This net exemplifies efficiency by filtering the finest material. Sand, dirt, sediment, fine particles, leaves, bugs and pine cone needles are swept into the ~14 inch hopper with force. The strong aluminum sub-frame is wrapped in yellow polymer, formed with a lip designed to ramp contaminants directly into the hopper. Over one year of use, deployed from spring to spring (spring pollen, sand, silt, insects, grit, grime, algae, winter tarp grossness, all manner of tiny organic material) this skimmer has gone above and beyond the call of duty. It is strong and can be forced through the water with ample walking velocity.

Not to be confused with more course nets that allow low effort moving through water, this net instead trades high speed for the small details. Those pesky particles your standard net simple stirs up, this net will capture securely.

As for durability, this net has been out in the elements for just over a year (need net out over winter in KY to keep pool cover clean) and has entertained temperatures ranging from -5°F - 97°F.

Buy this if you want a skimmer that will strain out polin sized contaminants for years to come.

I absolutely love this pool net because it is ultra fine and catches all the little things that make their way into my pool that the other larger holed nets miss. I have a huge ant nest that moves around my back yard and invariably, every time it rains, the ants wash into the pool. They all attach to each other and make a big "ant raft" that you would think would make it easy to scoop with a regular net. But the problem is they break apart when scooped and fall through the holes of the traditional net. Now that I have the Purity Pool Pelican Featherweight Pool Net I scoop the ants and the rafts out with ease. This is really great because now I get them out before they go and clog up my pool filter. What's great is this net has a strong edge that I can use to scoop stuff off the bottom of my pool. Again, it gets the little stuff, so if there is dirt or small leaves and debris, this net gets it all. Is very easy to rinse out and made of good quality material. I strongly recommend this to anyone who wants to be sure they can get every little thing out of their pool so it can be clean and sparkly for all to enjoy. It saves alot of cleaning of the filter and preserves your filter from getting clogged by fine debris. Of course it works great on the big stuff too. Nice heavy duty design. Definitely a keeper!

This is replacing the same net we had before, only with a finer mesh. The coarser mesh was a little easier to use because it moves through the water better and is more tolerant to stopping and slowing down. This one, though, catches more material of the finer/siltier nature. I'f you're only scooping leaves, then you might want to go with the less-fine model. But this works extremely well for the purpose and is very well made.

The product works great and picks up the small pieces of debris in my pool.

Update on this net. It has been two years, and I like this net even more. Not only it picks up all the tiny specs on the surface of the pool, it picks up all the large items that my pool vacuum cannot pick up from the bottom of the pool. And it has been holding up really well. Love it.

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This is my favorite net. I have an inground pool that has an automatic pool cleaner and skimmers that work well. So my problem is about the small tiny black specs and insects that accidentally got in the pool and failed to come out on their own. It was a hassle cleaning the pool with other net. And my son always complainted that he had to swim with ants.. Now that is not a problem any more. Ants, dirt, leaves, black specs that came from no where... Everything could be picked up by this net. It made me feel really good cleaning the pool, because the pool would be sparkling afterwards.

The only problem is that it will take me longer to clean the pool now that I know what I can do, I can't stop using it and make sure I pick up everything I can see.