Dipping Net (Weapon)
Net with a handle rod, used to tame fish.
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Dipping Net (Weapon) — Detailed Guide
Catching fish by hand
The Dipping Net (Weapon) is a hand-held tool that our records list for ARK: Survival Ascended, and the ARK Wiki links it to Aquatica. Its in-game text reads: "Net with a handle rod, used to tame fish." It takes 
Dipping Net (Ammo) as its ammunition. To use it, swim close to a small fish and use the net on it. Each attempt can fail; a successful catch spends 1 ammo and gives you a Filled Dipping Net.
Durability and failed attempts
The net has 40 durability. A successful catch costs no durability at all; only misses wear it down, at 2 per failure.
Creatures it can catch
The ARK Wiki lists these creatures as catchable:
Piranha
Trilobite
Thunnus
Coelacanth
Leech
Diseased Leech
Lamprey
Sabertooth Salmon
Stereolepis
Qarmoutus
Three more can be netted only once they are already tamed: the 
Manta, the 
Anglerfish and the 
Ichthyosaurus.
Engram and recipe
It unlocks at level 27 for 6 engram points and is made in the survivor's inventory from 180 
Fiber, 80 
Thatch and 80 
Wood. The net weighs 2. The wiki gives 360.1 as the version that added it.
A reported bug
The wiki describes a problem seen in patch 361.8: the net worked without any Dipping Net (Ammo), and reloading while carrying that ammo made an extra one appear. Taking the extra one out allowed a player to collect an unlimited amount of ammo, which the wiki calls most likely unintended.