Quote Originally Posted by waste View Post
Mike, a 'leaf rake' will help. ...
The 'slip stream' of the net passing across the bottom will stir up adjacent leaves - you can either wait for them to settle out (by going to another area of the pool for a few minutes) or you can 'herd' the leaves to the shallow end for easier removal or you can start by pushing the rake out, when you get to ~max reach, quickly flip the net 180 deg and pull it back into the stirred up leaves - whem you get to the wall, flip it again and push into the entrained leaves...
This technique works great. I've had way too much opportunity to perfect it though. I'll be shopping for one of those leaf bagger dealies this year.