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    Posted: 18 May 2012 at 6:03pm
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has anyone ever used a kina burley, me and a friend jsut went and got some kina's have about 4kgs of burley, all crushed and into 2.25 bottle i have been told it works well, any ideas?
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Good for Snapper, in particular in shallow reefy, rocky, weedy areas that you would expect kina to be.

If you want it to perhaps last longer and go further add stuff like breadcrumbs, cooked rice, even minced/squashed bait fish, fish oil...things like that....
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best burley when were free diving!  i would use some regular fish burely to but!
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well id be fishing of the rocks, not so much rock out in the water from what i can see but there is kelp around and some rocks so mayb ill find out tomorrow XD
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Yea great berley for snaps, I would add bread crumbs and some woolworths catfood (pure fish), then cube some of the bait fish from your berley trail.
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ahh i see, to late to add now, just pure kina for tomorrow :( but only took 15 minn too get 75kina for burley so im sure we can get more next week, and try ur method thanx mate will defanitly try this out  
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Should be about the best berley you can get mate. I always check the gut content of the snaps I get off the bricks and they're 9/10 full of crabs, kina or both.

Guess you've frozen it? One prob I've had with the commercial kina berley is that it melts very quickly, leaving a lot of shell fragments. You can get around this by putting it in a strong plastic bag and just cutting a small (3cm) hole in the bag.

Agree with what others have said about adding starchy absorptive bulking agents. White bread is my personal favourite, because you usually get floating pieces that head out in the trail and let you know if there are kahawai out back. 

Interested to hear how you go. 
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yer i jsut crushed the whole kina's into a steel bowl and then into a plastic bottle, the shell fragments are very fine, im planing to use a screw driver to jab some holes in it so hope it lets out enough shell also, and yer its completly frozen
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Yea a loaf of white bread crumbed really fine is great for kahawai, yems and piper. I also like catching heaps of baitfish and cubing them  up.
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Fresh kina is one of my favs.  On the spot berley and dont have to carry it in. 
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One spot I fish has heaps of kina I'm able to get with out getting my feet wet at low tide (hard to find in wellington's cbd) and the fat ones make a hell of a trail  
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The ultimate fresh burley mate. Don't completely crush them... step on them hard enough to crack them and then toss them out whole... this holds them together like mini bombs that the snapper will get all worked up and competitive over... the bigger ones will be in the mood to storm in and knock the smaller fish out of the way... just what you want when you lob out a big juicy bait :)
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ha so take out a bucket of them u rekon granade the water with the buggers :P sounds like fun
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If you want to make kina bombs then crush them up and mix chook or pig pellets with them, let the pellets soak up the yummy kina flavours for an hour or so then freeze.  Kina is the best snapper burley ever.
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I wouldn't freeze "kina grenades" as they will float and take the fish away.
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i dont freeze the granades mate i freeze crushed up kinna
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Well James whatever you did it worked yesterdayWink
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just those nades mate dont worry ill teach ya some tircks LOL Tongue jks bro ur the pro
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