| Fishing Knots |
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Fishing knot tying made easy with this illustrated knot tying tutorial. Includes the strongest fishing knots |
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Learn how to snell fishing hooks to your line and improve your catch rates. Clear hook knot tying pics. |
| Fishing Knots |
How to Snell Hooks |
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Tying illustration to get your traces all the same length. It is much easier than you think. |
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An easy to tie Kiwi loop knot for fishing. The strongest fishing loop knot in the world. |
| Tie Traces to Length |
A Better Blood Loop |
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A great knot tying illustration on the new saltwater uni knots. This one does not weaken over time.
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Learn how to further increase the durability of the new uni knot with a catspaw loop. |
| Improved Uni Knot |
Uni Knot/Catspaw |
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A simple to tie and very popular fishing knot. Clear diagrams and pictures make it easy.
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Braided fishing line knots for making loops. Not suitable for spectra or super-braid.
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Shock Cords |
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When no knot is strong enough a crimped join is a good alternative for joining heavy fishing lines permanently.
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The most popular - and one of the weakest - knots for joining fishing lines quickly |
| Crimping Joins |
Blood Knot |
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deal for attaching the trace line to the swivel. Two versions of this knot shown both work well on kite and longline fishing gear.
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Ideal for attaching terminal tackle. This is the knot Paul's Fishing kites use for their traces on kite and long-line fishing gear.
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| Improved Clinch |
Clinch Knot |
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| Kite Fishing |
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Real surf fishing equipment, cast your line 500 yards. Find out how easy it is to cast your line hundreds of yards offshore.
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Saltwater fish catches and photos taken on Paul's Fishing kites rigs and Target Snapper Hooks |
| About Kitefishing |
Pictures of Fish |
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| Longline Fishing |
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Seabird By-Catch |
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Set a PFK longline from your boat for a couple of hours and let it fish while you do other things like trolling and jigging soft baits. |
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Developing technologies capable of assisting in solving the seabird by-catch issue in the Tuna Surface Longline Fishery. |
| About Longlining |
Seabird By-catch |
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| Seabird By-Catch Mitigation |
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Sea Trials of an Underwater Bait Setting Device on a commercial vessel in open water conditions. |
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Performance of a USD device on a smaller longline vessel in a range of sea conditions |
| Daniel Solander |
F.V. Brenda Kay Sea Trial |
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The objective of trial number 3 was to set a minimum of 4,000 hooks through the modified USD under the normal fishing conditions on a commercial fishing vessel, and evaluate its seaworthiness, and ease of use. The trial was
undertaken on the domestic longline fishing vessel F.V. Atu S., owned by Moana Pacific Ltd.
Fishing Vessel Atu. S Sea Trials of underwater chute |