Kina burley?
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Topic: Kina burley?
Posted By: James Clark
Subject: Kina burley?
Date Posted: 18 May 2012 at 6:03pm
| 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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Posted By: Catchelot
Date Posted: 18 May 2012 at 6:11pm
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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.... ------------- "The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." - Jacques Cousteau |
Posted By: jakepitsville
Date Posted: 18 May 2012 at 6:11pm
| best burley when were free diving! i would use some regular fish burely to but! |
Posted By: James Clark
Date Posted: 18 May 2012 at 6:13pm
| 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 |
Posted By: username
Date Posted: 18 May 2012 at 8:54pm
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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. |
Posted By: James Clark
Date Posted: 18 May 2012 at 8:58pm
| 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 |
Posted By: Ahab
Date Posted: 19 May 2012 at 8:19am
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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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Posted By: James Clark
Date Posted: 19 May 2012 at 8:47am
| 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 |
Posted By: username
Date Posted: 19 May 2012 at 11:56am
| 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. |
Posted By: JonnyBlaze
Date Posted: 19 May 2012 at 5:50pm
| Fresh kina is one of my favs. On the spot berley and dont have to carry it in. |
Posted By: username
Date Posted: 19 May 2012 at 8:37pm
| 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 |
Posted By: BeachedAsBro
Date Posted: 21 May 2012 at 8:39pm
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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 :) ------------- Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish caught will we realise we can't eat money. |
Posted By: James Clark
Date Posted: 21 May 2012 at 8:43pm
| ha so take out a bucket of them u rekon granade the water with the buggers :P sounds like fun |
Posted By: dirtyharry
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 7:21pm
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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.
------------- I waste most of my money on fishing tackle. The rest I invest in women and booze. |
Posted By: username
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 11:03pm
| I wouldn't freeze "kina grenades" as they will float and take the fish away. |
Posted By: James Clark
Date Posted: 24 May 2012 at 1:09pm
| i dont freeze the granades mate i freeze crushed up kinna |
Posted By: Naki-Fisher
Date Posted: 24 May 2012 at 1:45pm
Well James whatever you did it worked yesterday
------------- The 20lb+ Snapper club No Longer Eludes me Broken with a 12kg new PB Goal for the next 12 months: catch another 20lb+ Snap and watch it swim away Hook a King LB here in the Naki. |
Posted By: James Clark
Date Posted: 24 May 2012 at 1:52pm
just those nades mate dont worry ill teach ya some tircks LOL  jks bro ur the pro
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