Leaf Netting

Do any of you have any experience with a leaf netting cover? If we convert our pool to a pond, as mentioned in prior posts, I will no longer use a winter cover on the pool. Rather, I would like to get one of the leaf netting covers. However, we do get lots of snow and freezing temps during the winter months, and everywhere I read about the nets say to put them on OVER YOUR WINTER COVER when you close the pool, then in November, before it starts to freeze, remove the netting, which would remove all the leaves. Then in the Spring, the winter cover would be nice and clean (in theory).

My first concern is that I would not be putting it over a winter cover. I would be using ONLY the leaf netting as a winter cover to keep garbage out of the pond over the winter. Secondly, I cannot visualize what would happen when it snows. Would the snow pile up on the netting? Fall through? Probably depends on the amount of snowfall. But if it did stick and pile up on the netting, I wonder if it would ruin it.

If any of you have any experience keeping one on your pool over winter, please let me know how it goes. I know this is an unusual application, but I need to find some way to keep junk out during the winter, and don't really want to use my winter cover if I don't have to. I hate cleaning that mess off each Spring.....it smells like a sewer.

Thanks again, everybody!

Sandy