Cast net experience

Cast nets are easy when you get the hang of it, my biggest problem when I started was I was holding the weights to far away from eachother, you only want to hold like 4-6 weights a part from eachother. If that makes any sense I can't think of another way to explain it, after than its a simple throw...Its something you definitely have to get the feel for. A couple years ago I couldn't throw mine for crap, now I am pretty good at getting a perfect circle every time, and can even get it to land right where I wanted it to. I put my arm through the loop like lvrider said, for the exact same reason. Then I loop the rope around my hand evenly, small loops work better to big and the rope will get under the net when you throw it.

It will be fine you'll just have to practice, I would definitely practice before you get to the water. It will save you a lot of time. I think my net is a 6' radius I do well with it. I need to get a new one though I caught a couple 10lb catfish and some big carp in it this season and they tore it up, also have got it caught on a couple trees

That thing is so unnecessary, it just takes practice

Don't you have a pond behind your house? Go practice there >