Life’s true characters can be hard to find, but Blue out on the deep
blue is a ton of laughs.
Night Fishing For Trout
It is Not For the Faint Hearted – But the Rewards of night fishing in
terms of bigger fish can be worth it.
There is a lot to learn about fishing at night and some of the lessons
can be harsh – as I found out. Read about it in Night
Moves 1.
But once the lessons have been learned, night fishing is worth the cold,
and the dark. See how in Night Moves
II
Tuna Cubing Has Place in Other Fishing
Cubing for tuna has been a well established practice outside New Zealand,
and in the last couple of years has begun to be used with great effect
here.
The principle is very simple – cut up baits such as pilchards, sprats
or piper into three or four pieces – cut up fillets of skipjack, kahawai
etc. into cubes.
Then start feeding out the cubes over the stern. As one disappears from
sight toss in another. Once the trail is established put a hook in a cube
and feed it out under freespool so the hooked cube sinks at the same rate
as the free-sinking cubes. If the bait reaches the bottom untouched, wind
in and start again.
While this is going on it is essential that the cube trail is maintained
constantly – even while playing and landing a fish.
This technique works well for most of our fish, snapper, trevally, terakihi,
etc. It is also one technique that increases the chances of catching fish
that usually take live-baits, such as kingfish.