The Clinch Knot

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Fish Egg Loop

1. Rough two line inch through hook and form eye a loop near hook bend.

2. Hold loop between one thumb and forefinger, bring end sign of forward line and makes about five bandage hook vicinity, wrapping to eye.

3. Bring end sign come back through loop and tighten knot with tension in line in both directions.

4. End product is one knot slide in hook stem so that egg groups and nylon thread may acquire between hook knot and eye.

How to tie the Bimini Twist

1) Begin by making a loop and twist the line at least 20 times.
Depending on the length you wish to make the double, two people may be required.

2) Alternately, you may attach the double to something (use a cleat or a rod in a holder and place the line over the rod butt) if another pair of hands is not available. In this case stand inside the loop facing away from the rod, and towards the knot. Be careful of line damage at the end of the double if you do use this method.

This example shows a short double being made. The double end can be placed around the knee or your foot for a double a bit longer. Apply steady tension so the twists come together. Ensure that tension is maintained at all times.

3) Keeping tension on the standing end (line to the reel), relax slightly the tag end and let it run down over the original twist. This process can be assisted by placing a finger in the "v" at the bottom of the twist.



4) When the twists are completely wrapped, make a half-hitch around the right leg of the loop and pull tight. This will prevent the knot unraveling temporarily and allow you to proceed to the next step.




5) Complete the knot with a four turn locking hitch around both strands of the loop. Moisten the line with saliva and pull the tag end slowly. Use you thumb and forefinger to draw back the turns as you tighten them. Trim the tag end but leave enough line so the knot doesn't unravel, which may (unlikely if tied correctly) happen if it is constantly moving in and out of rod guides. The unraveling can be prevented by applying super glue to the knot. A rubber type glue such as Aquaseal or Pliobond is also very useful.


Always remember to test all knots before fishing

Make T knot

How to make T form's bond so that hook, float or pendulum no twist within itself.

Bagaimana hendak membuat ikatan bentuk T supaya mata kail, pelampung atau batu ladung tidak berbelit sesama sendiri.

Langkah 1 - Putarkan tangsi supaya ia terbentuk seperti dalam gambar 1. Ketika proses membentuk, pastikan hala pusingan tangsi berlawanan antara satu sama lain semasa menemukan tangsi ini – lihat anak panah.

Step 1 - Rotating catgut so that it formed as in picture 1. When process of forming, make sure round direction catgut counter between one same other during discover this catgut - see arrow.

Langkah 2 - Apabila membentuk 5 hingga 6 putaran, tegangkan kembali tangsi (seperti gambar 2) dan ketemukan semula lilitan tangsi yang dibuat ketika langkah 1. Proses ini bertujuan supaya lilitan menjadi lebih kemas dan rapat.

Step 2 - When form 5 to 6 revolutions, taut return catgut (such as picture 2) and again meet catgut circumference which made when move 1. This process aimed so that circumference become neater and close.

Langkah 3 - Ulangi langkah 1 dan 2 berulang kali sehingga lilitan yang dikehendaki cukup panjang. Biasanya panjang antara 15 hingga 25 sentimeter atau ukuran sejengkal jari dewasa.

Step 3 - Repeat move 1 and 2 repeatedly until circumference is wanted sufficiently long. Usually long between 15 to 25 centimetres or adult finger distance measure.

Langkah 4 - Berikutnya untuk mematikan simpulan dengan menyilang kedua-dua lingkar (loop) tali sambil jari telunjuk dan jari hantu digunakan sebagai index. Loop yang terbina perlu besar supaya memudahkan kita membuat langkah berikutnya.

Step 4 - Further to kill knot with cross both coil (loop) rope as forefinger and middle finger used as index. Formed Loop must be big so that facilitate we make next step.

Langkah 5 - Gunakan kedua-dua jari telunjuk untuk memutarkan loop yang terbina sebanyak 5 hingga 7 pusingan seperti gambar.

Step 5 - Use both forefinger to rotate loop built as much as 5 to 7 laps such as picture.

Langkah 6 - Apabila mencukupi 7 pusingan, masukkan hujung pintal ke dalam loop melalui tengah-tengah loop.

Step 6 - When enough 7 laps, include end twist into loop through middle loop.

Langkah 7 - Tegangkan tali seperti gambar 7. Sebelum memulakan regangan pastikan hujung pintal perlu ditegangkan sepenuhnya. Lakukan regangan dengan perlahan-lahan supaya ia membentuk sapu simpulan yang sekata. Gunakan pelincir seperti air liur (terbaik) semasa proses regangan ini supaya kita tidak mencalarkan tangsi semasa regangan dibuat.

Step 7 - Taut string-like picture 7. Before starting stretching make sure end twist must stretchy fully. Doing stretching gradually so that it form sweep regular knot. Use lubricant such as saliva (best) during this stretching process so that we no scratch current catgut stretching made.

Langkah 8 - Pasang mata kali pada hujung pintal seperti gambar. Contoh mata kail adalah jenis ‘Gamakatsu Octopus Circle Hook’.

Step 8 - Install multiply eye at end twist such as picture. Hook example was the type ‘Gamakatsu Octopus Circle Hook'.

Langkah 9 - Selesaikan pemasangan mata kail dengan memasukkan hujung mata pada hujung tali yang dipintal seperti gambar.

Step 9 - Solve hook installation by including distal in end of rope spun such as picture.

Langkah 10 - Contoh ikatan T yang siap. Mata kail berada kira-kira 15 sentimeter dari perambut utama dan regangan T dibuat supaya kedudukan mata jauh dari perambut utama.

Step 10 - T bond's example completed. Well off hook about 15 centimetres from perambut major and T's stretching made so that far points standing from perambut major.

Langkah 11 - Hujung tangsi digantung pemberat (ladung) dan hujung satu lagi disambungkan pada tali utama.

Step 11 - Catgut end suspended weight (bob) and another end attaches to main line.

Perambut pancing pantai memadai 1 meter

Panjang perambut untuk memancing di pantai memadai satu meter kerana jika terlalu panjang maka anda akan mengalami kesukaran untuk lontaran nanti (rujuk lakaran gambar untuk teknik perambut untuk pancing pantai).


Antara umpan pilihan untuk memancing pari ialah udang hidup, ketam angin, anak bebolos sebesar jari manis, sotong kurita, hirisan ikan selayang atau selar kuning, anak gelama, sotong dan udang pasar.

Long perambut to fish at the beach enough a metre because if too long thus you will experience difficulty for throwing later (refer picture sketch for technique perambut to hook coast).


Between choice bait to fish skate was live prawn, sand crab, child bebolos as big as ring finger, octopus, slices of sardine or yellow brand, sea fish spawn, market squid and prawn.

FOR FISHING WITH KIDS

Avoid the kid’s stuff

A quality ultra-light bait cast or spin cast rod and reel combo is usually easier for kids to use.

Small hooks = big catches

Avoid hooks larger than size 10 (hook sizes run backwards - size 12 is smaller than size 10). Fish won’t readily take large hooks unless they are feeding voraciously. Most of the time, a subtle presentation is needed to catch wary fish. Tiny hooks also allow small fish to “inhale” the bait, rather than nibble the bait of the hook. If a fish swallows the hook and you want to return it to the water, simply cut the line as close to the hook as possible and release the fish.

Lighten up your line

Light line will do the job, preferably 6-pound test line or less. Unless you’re targeting monster catfish or marauding muskies, light line is your best bet.

Bag the big bobbers

Bobbers (or floats) are used to suspend your bait in the water and to alert you when to set the hooks. The harder the bobber is to pull under, the harder it will be to hook a fish. Small floats will help convince the fish to take your tasty bait and run. “Slip” bobbers work well for kids. Slip bobber rigs cut down on the amount of line needed at the end of the rod and are easier to cast. Small ice fishing bobbers can provide a light touch any time of year.

Sink it with shot

Sinkers help get your line down to the fish. They can also create “zero buoyancy.” Ideally, you want your bobber to just barely float on the top of the water. Squeeze small BB-sized split shot sinkers onto your line one at a time until your bobber early sinks from the weight. Since there is very little resistance when the fish takes the bait, it is more likely to bite the bait and run.

Great big gobs of worms won’t do

There’s no need to use whole whopping-big, writhing night crawlers on your hook. Keep the bait approximately the size of your hook. Live bait such as worms, beemoths or crickets work best. Cut the bait to fit your hook.

Line Size

You can Catch More Fish on Smaller Line

How many of you out there use the same tackle with the same line for all of the fishing you do? You never change equipment or line size to accommodate a different fishing situation. Line size, in particular, does make a difference.

I'm not talking about the obvious fact that the big game tackle needed for marlin would not be used for inshore flats fishing. I'm talking about the more subtle differences that a lot of anglers miss.

Fishing offshore last week, several of us were looking for a big catch to supply an upcoming fish fry event. That necessarily meant looking for a lot of average size fish rather than baiting and fishing for th4 one or two good catches we normally pursue.

We anchored over an artificial reef some 28 miles off of Saint Augustine, Florida, and immediately began catching fish. Vermillion snapper and black sea bass were all over this wreck and showed up on the depth finder in great numbers.

The vermillion (we call them beeliners) were up in the water column as usually. With a double hook fish finder rig (a six ounce sinker on the bottom and two branches of leader and hook above) some of us were dropping all the way to the bottom where we lost our baits to small pinfish and grunts. We went right down through and missed the school of snapper.

Several cranks up off the bottom put the bait in a good strike zone where the beeliners were holding. While we caught some of the beeliners with this method, I knew we could do far better.

Beeliners, and snapper in general are wary fish, and the larger ones did not get to be that large by eating every bait in front of them. I have studied snapper underwater in my diving days and watched them approach a bait. Generally, the bigger the fish, the less likely he was to get caught. The bigger ones seemed to lay back and watch the smaller ones tear and run at the bait. Only after they seemed to believe that it was safe would they attack a bait. The trick was - and still is for snapper - to make the bait appear as natural as possible.

The seas were running about three feet with a pretty sporty northeast ground swell. The sea conditions meant that the baits suspended off the bottom would rise and fall, sometimes abruptly, as much a ten feet in either direction. This certainly was not a very natural presentation, and the catch rate was proving just that.

The fish we were after would top out at five or six pounds. There was no need for the 50 pound test line and 100 pound test leaders we were using. So. I took out my eight pound spinning outfit. I tied a twelve inch, twenty pound test fluorocarbon leader to the line using a surgeon's knot and tied a 3/4 ounce. 2/0 jig head to the leader.

The jig head was big enough to get my eight pound line down to eighty feet or so to the fish, yet light enough to actually let the baited jig drift down at a slower rate. As the boat lifted and fell with the seas, I adjusted the line leaving my reel accordingly.

It was pretty easy to watch the line slowly disappear from the surface of the water, and when it quit sinking, I set the hook. A big beeliner had grabbed the naturally sinking bait without hesitation. The great part was that the bait never had a chance to get down to the junk fish. Beeliners were jumping on it before it ever got that deep.

Two things were very apparent to me on this trip, and I believe they will make a difference for you as well. While I didn't catch the biggest fish that day (Jason stumbled onto a nice 20 pound gag grouper), I consistently caught more and bigger fish than the average size being brought aboard.

First, I believe the line size made a difference that took the wariness away from the larger fish. Second, I believe the bait presentation, being more natural because of the line size, was more appealing to the fish.

I watch people every day fishing for small fish with an arsenal that would theoretically catch a whale. They watch me and my parties catch fish right next to them and shake their heads. They simply don't get it! Fish are cold blooded and may not have the brains to think = or so we think. I believe that the right line size makes a major difference in catch rate and overall success.

Best of all, the lighter tackle makes catching them a whole lot more fun!

Ledger Rigs and Drop-line Fishing on Reef

The ledger rig is a great way of targeting hapuku, bass and bluenose in deeper water, and is also an excellent all purpose reef fishing rig which can be fished directly from a rod, or set and left to fish like a longline.

In shallower water this dropshot fishing rig will catch snapper, tarakihi, kingfish, porae, red snapper, trumpeter, john dory, trevally and grandfather hapuku.

Generally no more than three hooks are used when fishing a ledger rig from a rod while up to 20 hooks can be set in very deep water beside high underwater cliffs for deepwater species.

When left to fish the deep water rig is called a hapuku dropper or dhan line. Deepwater Fishing

An example of a typical ledger rig is shown on the right. Keep the traces shorter than half the distance between hooks to avoid tangles.

All the knots you need to tie including tying a snell can be found here

Hapuku, bass and bluenose can be found in depths ranging from a few metres to 240 metres but are more abundant in the deeper water.

If fishing for these deep water species use only snelled circle hooks from size 5/0 to 10/0.

Long strip baits are good for deep sea fishing as generally the fish suck the whole bait into their large mouth.

Hapuku will take whole fish baits, whole squid, long strip baits, crayfish and crabs. Paul's favourite was whole fresh rock cod up to 2kg.

It is important to use the correct fish hook knot when tying fishing rigs

Again use a hook snell on circle hooks for this rig. An article with pictures of snells can be found here snelled circle hooks

NOTE

Always snell hook to trace first, as you cannot snell fishing rigs unless both ends of the trace are free

Articles comparing the catch rates for different fish hook knots can be found here fishing knots snell v/s tied

I have set many 10 hook ledgers in the kelp overnight around the Mokohinau Islands when I was commercially fishing and caught many 6 to 12kg snapper doing so.

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Tie a Two Hook Pilchard Rig

Once you have perfected snelling a hook, it is very simple to make up a two hook trace.

Simply snell the first hook on, then pass the end of the trace through the back of the second hook and you're ready to snell the second hook on.

Set the distance between the hooks at about two thirds of the length of the bait fish you intend to use before snelling the second hook.


The finished two hook pilchard rig



When tying a two hook pilchard rig, we have found that keeping the hooks in line further improves both your catch rate and the ability of the rig to hold soft baits or live baits.

NOTE :

If using whole fish baits, put one hook through the head and the other hook through the body behind the gut cavity and make sure the second hook goes around the spine of the bait fish.

The head of the bait should be on the bottom hook.

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Tying Fish Hooks - Snelling Fish Hooks

Paul's Fishing Kites have conducted extensive research on fish hook types, hook sizes, and the effects of tying fishing hooks versus snelling fishing hooks in the New Zealand snapper fishery. It was found that the type of fishing hook knots used has a significant effect on catch rates

Circle hooks with a snell knot were found to have the highest catch rate by a considerable margin and caught more than twice as many fish as either O'Shaugnessy and Octopus patterned hooks of the same size.

The method of tying fishing hooks was also investigated and a difference in catch rate between tying a circle hook versus snelling a circle hook was determined to be around 20% in favor of the snell knot. See the diagrams below on how to tie a fishing knot to attach the hook to the trace.

Snelled fishing hooks

Besides improved catch rates, the snell knot takes only seconds per hook to tie. The resulting attachment is one of the strongest fishing knots around, whereas tying to the eye of the hook weakens the trace by as much as 40% (depending on the knot used and the skill of the fisherman tying the knot).

The best snelled fishing hooks found in the extensive sea trials (over 10,000 hooks were set) are available from Paul's Fishing Kites. The snell is the easiest fish hook tying knot around.

There are two types available

*Nickel Teflon : 4/0 & 5/0
For conventional fishing with rods and reels from boat or shore.

*Seaguard Coated : 4/0 & 5/0
These have a smaller eye for tighter snelling and are best for longlines, kite fishing and kon tiki rigs.

Fishing Hook Knot Tying

Snelling is a very simple method of fishing hook knot tying and the snell knot is the strongest of all saltwater fishing hook knots.

Tying fishing hooks

*First pass the trace through the eye of the hook from the front of the hook.Only pass it through about half an inch.
*Hold the shank of the hook and the half inch tab end and wrap the trace around both the shank of the hook and the tab end 7 or 8 turns.
*Pass the trace back down through the eye of the hook from the back of the hook.
*Pull the trace tight while holding the hook to set the snell.
*There should be very little or no tag end protruding when the knot is set.

If the hook curls up towards the trace you have snelled the hook correctly. We believe that snelling a hook like this makes the trace act as a spring and improves the hook up rate and also prevents the fish from throwing the hook.

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the best fishing knots.

This fishing knot uses the hangmans uni knot and is the knot most used by Paul's Fishing Kites for all the critical knotted joins in their kite fishing rigs and kite lines.

The best thing about this fishing knot is that it doesn't tighten up over time like a clinch knot or uni knot does and is ideal to use on surf fishing lines.

While other knots weaken the line over time, the catspawed hangmans uni knot will last for years without any maintenance required.

You will need to learn the hangmans uni knot before attempting this.

This knot is best tightened slowly while paying particular attention to how the line is laying while pulling it up.

You don't want to have any twists in the line or have the line crossing. A bit of practice is required.

To pull it up, put the clip over something fixed, such as a large nail.

Put light tension on the main line and slowly push the noose up to the clip.

This is truly one of the best saltwater fishing knots around and it is really worth taking the time to learn how to tie it properly.

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Tie Traces the Correct Length

For snapper fishing 1 metre 20 to 30 kg (40-50lb) traces are best.

Storing traces and terminal tackle on a rack or board has many advantages.

If you are using a longline or kite rig you will need a trace rack of some sort to store the many traces on.

Those using the sliding trace rig also find a rack helpful for storing spare traces and weight lines on.

Many fishers just like to have spare traces available for regular fishing with rods and reels.

The fishing line on traces that have been stored under tension on a rack are straight, kink and twist free and are a pleasure to use.
Keeping spare traces on a rack will reduce your fishing downtime if you get tangled with others, get snagged or are busted off by a big fish.

You can also bait the traces while they are on the rack.

Running repairs only mean seconds of lost fishing time rather than the many minutes it takes to completely re-rig your line from scratch.

The main question we get asked at Paul's Fishing Kites is, "how to tie a knot for fishing traces and get them all exactly the right length?"

The first thing you need to do is tie or snell all your hooks to traces that are around 300mm (12inches) too long.



Fishing knots and tips

1-Take one of the traces with a fish hook already snelled on and put the hook in the slot or over the nail on your rack where it will go when tied.

2-Put the clip and swivel in the opposite end of the rack where it will go.

3-Pull the trace towards the clip and cut the trace about 25mm (1 inch) beyond the swivel. On Paul's Fishing Kites racks simply cut flush with the inside of the rack as show

Tie fishing knot to length

Hang the rest of the traces with hooks on over a bar or clothes hanger and pull the traces gently until the hooks are lined up perfectly.

Pull the traces into a pony tail and cut them all to the same length of the first trace you cut.

All the traces with hooks on are all now the same length and we only need to get the tab end on the knot we tie to the swivel the same to have traces the perfect length.

The clinch knot (shown below) or an improved clinch (Looking at the diagram below it has the tab end turned towards you and is then passed back through the big loop) are the best knots for conrtolling the length of the tab end and are among the most popular monofilloment fishing knots.

Tighten a fishing knot trace

The trick is all in the pulling up of the knot.

*Tie the trace loosely to the swivel as shown in the top diagram below.

*Pinch the top of the swivel, the tab end and the last loop of the line firmly in your left hand while leaving a tab end of 25mm (1 inch).

*As you pull the knot up the tab end stays where you are pinching it and after tightening will still be 25mm long.

*Test your first trace on your rack and if it is a little loose add half an inch to the tab end for the rest of the traces.


Knot tying illustration - Improved Clinch Knot