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I have a habit of dropping big fish beside the boat during comps, aaarrrrrhhhh!!
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Originally posted by JW JW wrote:

All the biggest fish I've ever hooked got away. True story - and only because I wasn't wearing my lucky pants. 


Good point JW Big smile
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Here's a little article I wrote on keeping your catch fresh. Not saying it is gospel but it's what I think about the subject:
http://www.nzfishingworld.co.nz/latest/2016/08/keeping-your-catch-fresh
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Originally posted by smudge smudge wrote:

Here's a little article I wrote on keeping your catch fresh. Not saying it is gospel but it's what I think about the subject:
http://www.nzfishingworld.co.nz/latest/2016/08/keeping-your-catch-fresh
Great article smudge - thanks
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I prefer not to put water in with salt ice as the water is more likely to contaminate the fish as body fluids leak out, fish often cough up smelly old berley or stinky bits of bait when caught. You really want to minimise that stuff coming into contact with your fish.

Sorted best by suggestion in posts above.
Gut before throwing into the bin...keeps fish clean , bin clean. no crap on the fish at the filleting table, clean boards knives

 And if ice/ blocks  whatever are well distributed the fish is chilled quickly as suggested, when get home the flesh will be set to fillet easier... If it has not then the instructions in chilling have not been followed.
If left over night, and rem salt ice is below freezing point the fish become pre frozen... not chilled... Freezing breaks down the flesh structure.. its not longer "fresh fillets"
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This is all interesting the way we look after our fish.

2 weeks ago I was in Vietnam and have to say that they normally simply throw their fish into a bucket and rarely will it have even water in it. Fish caught in the sea are often placed in a round dish/basket type of basket made from coconut leaves that are woven from 20mm wide strips.
I ate fish on several occasions and the only difference I noted was that their fish seemed to have less flavor than ours. Neither Brenda or myself showed the slightest sign of becoming crook in the 2 weeks we were there. Coldest day was 29cel and the hottest was 38 cel but the humidity was extreme each and every day.
I think icing your fish helps retain flavor for sure
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good points above.
I also find fishing in the southern waters helps a lot, fish are coming out of the water around 10 degrees cooler than your northern ones. Makes for easier and faster chilling............maybe thats why the blue cod down here is so dang fine.

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Do you use a trace?or just the mainline?
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Originally posted by Godders Godders wrote:

Do you use a trace?or just the mainline?


I guess it depends on your mainline. When I target kahawai specifically on lures I only use a 10kg trace max. If you have to lift the fish I'd go no lighter than 10kg. Having said that, line weight isn't particularly important for kahawai fishing. I've caught a few on marlin lures with a 300lb trace.
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Nice one Smudge. I leave filleting until the boats been washed down, a few beers have also been washed down. Firm pearly white flesh akin to polystyrene makes for much easier filleting. Not like some of the flabby pink fillets for sale in supermarkets.
As for filleting knives, that's another subject!
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Originally posted by muchalls muchalls wrote:

Nice one Smudge. I leave filleting until the boats been washed down, a few beers have also been washed down. Firm pearly white flesh akin to polystyrene makes for much easier filleting. Not like some of the flabby pink fillets for sale in supermarkets.
As for filleting knives, that's another subject!


Yepp it is indeed. If you take a look at the snapper fillets in that link I posted you will see they are shiny and glossy - firm looking. A fish that hasn't been treated right and carved up with a dull knife won't look anything like that.
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Originally posted by smudge smudge wrote:

Originally posted by muchalls muchalls wrote:

Nice one Smudge. I leave filleting until the boats been washed down, a few beers have also been washed down. Firm pearly white flesh akin to polystyrene makes for much easier filleting. Not like some of the flabby pink fillets for sale in supermarkets.
As for filleting knives, that's another subject!


Yepp it is indeed. If you take a look at the snapper fillets in that link I posted you will see they are shiny and glossy - firm looking. A fish that hasn't been treated right and carved up with a dull knife won't look anything like that.

I know you're a fan of Victory, Smudge. I went to the factory in Marua Rd recently and got a nice carbon steel filleting knife for $20. Wanted carbon, rather than stainless. 
Friendly ladies in the factory front searched until they found what I was after. 
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Originally posted by Godders Godders wrote:

Do you use a trace?or just the mainline?

I've tried Bruce Duncan's method of no trace, usually doubling the 6-8kg mainline first using a Spider hitch. One downside is that it's really only useful for a one-hook rig (as far as my knot tying skills of a Snood knot go, anyway) so you don't get the extra hookability of two hooks in the bait. 
We've got some nice pannies in the relatively sandy bottom shallows on that rig.

I sometimes use a trace but without a swivel, using a back to back uni to attach a heavier trace to the doubled mainline (a la Mark Kitteridge - though he uses a Bimini to double, not the lesser Spider Hitch).
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Originally posted by Godders Godders wrote:

Do you use a trace?or just the mainline?


Use trace. At least thats what i do .
Cos little bit by little bit you will eat into the mainline and the day may come when you have that really big fish and end up saying ,if only i had another few meters on the spool i may not have lost it.
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