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http://www.kiwi36.com   Merry Christmas to all, as this will be the last blog until January. If over the holidays you are fishing and you have caught your fish. Cleaning and cooking will be on the agenda. The traditional and popular method is to smoke you catch. This is very simple using the type of hot smokers available at most fish retailers and hardware stores. For a quick and simple smoked trout. Gut and clean the trout, cut off the head and tail, Butterfly the fish- cut length ways from the front down one side of the back bone, but don't cut right through, and fold out those halves  with the skin side down. either soak in salt and brown sugar brine for a few hours, or overnight in the fridge, or if you are in a real hurry, sprinkle salt/ sugar over the flesh while you organize your smoker. When you are ready to smoke, rinse off most of the salt and sugar, Pat dry with paper towel, sprinkle a little more fresh salt and sugar, and place the fish skin side down on a rack  in

http://www.kiwi36.com/ On the beach wear warm body waders and wade out further distance.  Fish the incoming tides. Be prepared to fish into the night. Have pre-baited traces ready to clip on to replace empty hooks. If plagued by paddle crabs stick it out as this means the snapper have arrived Try tough baits like salted mullet when crabs are a problem. Always secure baits with bait elastic. Check it out promising areas at low tide when the contour of the bottom and key features like kelp beds, guts and channels are revealed. Always use the Rod, not the reel, to lead a fish into the rocks or beach and wait for an incoming wave  and use the power of the water to float the fish to you.

Http://kiwi36.com/ Trout fishing, As the days draw longer and spring brings warmer temperatures, trout angler’s thoughts turned to fly-fishing. Not fishing in the dark, cold nights along the edge of the lakes or wading in icy waters -but working a dry fly down a riffle on a river. After one of the worst winters in memory a period of settle weather will be needed before backcountry streams and rivers start to fish well. Warm evenings equate to hatches of Cadus and mayflies and many rivers will respond to dry fly fishing as well as traditional wet fly or nymphing . This summer should see high numbers of hatches because the River has been stable all winter with none of the floods which can impact on insect life has occurred. On the lakes it is time to dust off the Harling rods, the smelt which are the main food for the trout, spawning in the shallows in the spring and again in the autumn, and the” smelting fishing” as it is called starts in October and runs through the summer. The f

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http://kiwi36.com The little bugger was not going to let go. This is a true story about my mates dog Fred. Fred is a fox terrier and a real character, a lot like his owner. On the third week of the shooting season we shot on my pond in the swamp as my mate Dick’s pond was dry. The water was coming up as the River was rising after heavy rain. After we had stopped shooting we went Dick’s pond and found it had about 3 to 4 inches of water on about half of it. That's enough Dick said. She'll shoot alright tomorrow. We set the decoys up ready for the next morning six on a bungee cord that goes to the mia mai with another 8 decoys around them. The mia mia had been camouflaged in tea tree already even though we hadn't yet shot in it. We arrived at the pond around 6.30 the next morning. Dick was putting a pipe in the swamp all while I was putting the wings on a Robo duck which was to be mounted on to the pipe about a metre above the water. The Robo duck is a battery o

  http://www.kiwi36.com  Spin Fishing Spin fishing is an ideal way to begin trout fishing as the skills involved are easily mastered. A basic outfit of rod, reel and line, plus a few lures are all that is necessary to give the novice a chance of catching trout. Watercraft and knowledge of trout habits learned while spin fishing are equally useful in other forms of trout fishing such as fly-fishing. Spin fishing, or to use its common name, thread  lining, is fishing for trout with lures that imitate small fish.   These lures are cast with a thread line outfit consisting of a mixed spool reel loaded with suitable monofilament line, and a short, single-handed spinning rod, ideally between 1.80m and 2.40m long. Tackle Reel The reel is the most important part of a spinning outfit and, like most things in life, you get what you pay for. Buy the best you can afford. Reels are available in right or left-hand wind or ambidextrous models. Buy a right or left hand wind model as suits you. There