How-to Advice and Fishing Tips

Tips on bottling, smoking, and freezing fish. How to tie knots and rigs, make sinkers, maintain fishing tackle, fix leaking waders, fishing books, whitebaiting, and heaps more! Our full How To Menu is in the sidebar on the right of this page.

Brown trout mounts on display at Mt Cook salmon farm near Twizel. A three dimentional mount is way better than just a photograph.
  • How-to Advice and Fishing Tips
    • Taxidermy Fish – Mounting the Whopper – Preparation Matters

    Taxidermy Fish with Monty Wright Each time we head out fishing we all dream of.

    03/07/2020
    Taking KIds Fishing
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    • Taking Kids Fishing – Tips for getting kids started learning to fish

    Taking Kids Fishing by Stephen Coote There are good reasons to take children fishing and.

    17/01/2020
    smoking fish featured image.
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    • Smoking Fish – How to prepare and cook fish by the hot smoking method

    How to Smoke Fish Smoking fish in a hot smoker I must admit that some of my.

    10/04/2019
    How to make a Wooden Flybox.
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  • Tackle
    • How to Make Your Own Large Wooden Fly Boxes by Allan Burgess

    Making Large Wooden Fly Boxes Here is a great idea for those who like to.

    16/05/2019
    A little bit of bottled salmon goes a long way. It is best to use smaller bottles if possible.
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    • Bottling and Preserving Salmon – how to guide to bottling salmon

    Bottling Salmon The Americans call this process canning even when glass jars are used Following.

    14/02/2019
    Kahawai steaks enclosed in a think layer of ice to prevent freezer burn.
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    • How to freeze fish while preventing freezer burn by encasing in ice

    Freeze Fish without Freezer Burn How to freeze fish so that it keeps longer. When.

    08/03/2017
    Fishingmag.co.nz Mobile Website featured image.
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    • Fishingmag.co.nz Mobile Website – Accelerated Mobile Pages or AMP

    Mobile Website Nowadays over 70 per cent of our web traffic comes to us from.

    14/04/2019
    With the aid of a D lead and about 1.2m of monofilament you can fish a fly on spinning gear.
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  • Rigs
    • Fishing Flies on Spinning Gear using a D lead Rig Can be very Effective

    Fishing Flies on Spinning Gear How to Fish the Fly and D lead rig on.

    26/12/2019
    Salmon anglers at the mouth of the Waimakariri River, Canterbury, South Island of New Zealand.
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    • Desktop Wallpaper Fishing background for your computer

    Desktop Wallpaper Desktop wallpaper of whitebaiting with pole nets Okarito River and Lagoon, Westland, South.

    29/11/2015
    Yachts at anchor in Waimea Inlet.
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    • Sea Sickness – How to Avoid Being Sea Sick on Your Next Fishing Trip

    Avoiding Sea Sickness For many anglers, seasickness can easily ruin what would otherwise be an.

    12/12/2018
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