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Saltwater Fishing Rigs
	A selection of boat and surf fishing rigs for catching saltwater fish.	A new lethal fishing rig for saltwater fish species. Great for when the fish are shy or off the bottom
	Fishing Rigs	Sliding Trace Rig

	One of our best surf fishing tips, floating surf fishing rigs. Keep paddle crabs away from your bait.	Snapper rigs one of the surf fishing basics. A two hook rig which is ideal for soft baits like pilchards.
	Floating Bead Traces	Two Hook Pilchard

	Hapuku and bass fishing rigs for deep reef areas. Full instructions on how to catch deep-water specis.	What a difference fishing hook knots can make! Snelling a fish hook will increase your catch.
	Ledger Rigs	Tying versus Snelling

Fishing Knots
	Fishing knot tying made easy with this knot tying tutorial. An assortment of the strongest fishing knots in the world.		Snelled fishing hooks with fishing hook knot tying pics. Use this knot to increase your catch rates.
	Fishing Knots		How to Snell Hooks

	Knot tying illustration to get your traces all the same length. It's not as hard as you may think!		A loop knot for fishing, easy to tie and much stronger than any other loop knot. Make stronger fishing rigs out of thinner line.
	Tie Traces to Length		A Better Blood Loop

	New saltwater knot illustrations. This version of the uni knot will not weaken over time.		Learn how to tie knots that don't weaken over time by incorporating a catspaw with a uni knot loop.
	Hangmans Uni Knot		Uni Knot/Catspaw

	A simple to tie slip knot, pictures make it easy. The standard uni knot is a very popular fishing knot		Braided fishing line knots for making loops. This is the knot Paul uses for his shock cords in all his kitefishing kits.
	Uni Knot		Shock Cords

	When no knot is strong enough a crimped join is a good alternative for joining heavy fishing lines permanently.		The most popular knots for joining fishing lines quickly. Not a recommended knot because it weakens the line by almost 50%
	Crimping Joins		Blood Knot

	Ideal for attaching the trace line to the swivel. Two versions of this knot shown both work well on kite and longline fishing gear.		Ideal for attaching terminal tackle. This is the knot Paul's Fishing kites use for their traces on kite and long-line fishing gear.
	Improved Clinch		Clinch Knot

Kite Fishing
	Really productive surf fishing equipment which will get you casting your fishing line 500 yards or more offshore		Saltwater fish catches taken on Paul's Fishing Kites kite rigs, boat long-lines and Target Snapper Hooks
	About Kitefishing		Pictures of Fish

Longline Fishing		Seabird By-Catch
	The ultimate salt water fishing tackle for small fishing boats. Set the line for a couple of hours then haul in the fish		Developing technologies capable of assisting in solving the seabird by-catch issue in the Tuna Surface Longline Fishery.
	About Longlining		Seabird By-catch

Seabird By-Catch Mitigation
	Sea Trials of an Underwater Bait Setting Device on a commercial vessel in open water conditions.		Performance of a USD device on a smaller longline vessel in a range of sea conditions
	Daniel Solander		F.V. Brenda Kay Sea Trial

	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