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Fishing Tip of the Week:

When determining the strength of line to use on your rig for the fish you intend on catching, always select a heavier grade line for your trace. When fish take the bite, they always exert more poundage force than their actual body weight. With a heavier line rig, it's more elastic and can take the initial shock and strain of a huge bite or a run.

Before applying the final pull to tying knots, moisten the knot with saliva so as to lubricate it and make easier the final coiling of the line. Always make sure you do gradual pulls, rather than fast, jerky pulls, as this may lead to line degradation.

When playing with fish that jump out of the water, such as Aussie Salmon, always dip your rod down to slacken the tension of the line and hook as they jump. Fish will use the tension of a tight line to try and dislodge the hook from their mouth. So it doesn't pay to always have "tight lines" !

Standard nylon and monofilament line exhibit an elastic characteristic and can be inefficient when trying to set a hook in a fish in 40 metres of water. When striking at a bite, the elasticity of the nylon absorbs a high percentage of the strike action and subsequently the hook may only move a couple of centimetres. When striking, strike well !

When spooling fresh or new line onto your reel, place the new line spool into a bucket of water. The drag generated by the water as you are spooling your new line onto your reel will partially stretch the line allowing it to set nicely onto your reel, and secondly, lubricate the line. Line that isn't set on a reel can cause problems by creating potential bird's nests when casting, especially on overhead reels.

Use chemically sharpened hooks. Even though they're a little bit dearer that the standard hooks, there is nothing worse than a blunt hook. A sharp hook offers a better chance of a hookup than a blunt one.

When fishing for a particular species of fish, take along a variety of bait with you. For example, if you're restricted to only using gents, and other anglers are catching Tommies and garfish using tube worms, you could deny yourself a reasonable catch.

When catching Salmon, gut and gill the fish straight away, snap the spine at the base of the head and invert it head down into the sand. The flesh tends to be dark if a Salmon is not bled straight away.

Should a hook be set deep in the throat of a caught fish, just cut the line and re-rig. Don't bother wasting time trying to retrieve a 20¢ hook, especially when the fish are on the bite for a short period of time. If releasing a deep throat hooked fish, don't worry about the hook, for the fish's stomach acids will eat the hook completely in about 4 days.

Use Polaroids when inspecting a fishy spot. Besides eliminating up to 80% UV rays and cutting much of the surface glare off the water on a bright day, it enables you to look deep into the water and comes in extremely handy when trying to locate sand patches and other bottom features.

Recycle some of your left over bait and fish offal by adding some pellets and tune oil, mincing it all up and freezing it in margarine containers. It's ideal for a standard berley bucket, and will last quite a while, thawing out slowly to disperse the berley. Prior to freezing, you could also add some sand, the extra weight making it ideal as a berley bomb. Perfect for boat fishing, where the berley slowly disperses directly under the boat.

Some fish become easily spooked when exposed to bright lights during night time. If your using a tilly light while beach fishing to work around in the dark, place it in a deep hole with the high mound on the front lip, closest towards the shore line. This will provide you with ample light, and reflect most of the light back away from the shore, and upwards.

Fish have a keen sense of smell. If you have used any insect spray on your hands, or handled fuel etc, always smother or wash your hands with you berley or a bit of tune oil, then wash your hands in sea water, before you handle your fishing equipment. Foreign smells can take fish off the bite.

Berleying, whether it be from a boat, shore line or jetty, is the key to attracting and holding fish in one area. It is also critical to ensure that it is distributed sparingly, so as not to disinterest the fish away from your bait. More importantly, constant berleying is essential. Hence, the standard black berley buckets are a must.

Caught fish should be put on ice as soon as possible. If on a boat, use a large bin filled with crushed ice and sea water to make a cold slurry. If the above is not available, a hessian bag soaked in cold sea water should suffice for a short period of time.

If you have a tucker box freezer, save all your empty milk cartons, and three weeks before you go fishing, start freezing water in the cartons. On a 5 day fishing trip, you could easily save yourself $60 on crushed and blocked ice from the petrol stations.

Fishing Tip of the Week: When determining the strength of line to use on your rig for the fish you intend on catching, always sele...

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~*~ Make a wish before you start the quiz ~*~

Do take the quiz as you read. There are only 4 questions, and if you cheat before you get to the end, you will not get honest results.

Scroll slowly and one question at a time for more acurate results.

Get pencil and paper to write down your answers. You will need it at the end.

This is an honesty quiz that will tell you about your true self.

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Question #1

Arrange the following 5 animals according to your preference:
Cow
Tiger
Sheep
Horse
Monkey

Question #2

Write one word to describe each of the following:Dog
Cat
Rat
Coffee
Ocean
Question #3
Think of somebody (who also knows you)that you can relate to the following colors:(Please don't repeat your answer!)(Name a different person for each color)
Yellow
Orange
Red
White
Green

Question #4

Finally, indicate your favorite number and favorite day of the week.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Are you done?? Make sure your answers are what you TRULY feel Look at your answers now and make any changes you need to NOW!!

~~ The Intrepretations ~~

Before going on, repeat your wish! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Question #1

This will define your priorities in life:
Cow means career
Tiger means pride
Sheep means love
Horse means family
Monkey means money
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Question 2

Your description of Dog implies your own personality
Your description of Cat implies your partner's personality
Your description of Rat implies your enemy's personality
Your description of Coffee is how you interpret sex
Your description of Ocean implies your own life
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Question #3

Yellow - somebody who will never forget you
Orange - someone whom you can consider as your real friend
Red - someone you really love
White - your soulmate
Green - a person whom you will always remember
for the rest of your life. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Question #4

You have to send this to as many people as your number states, and your wish will come true on the day you stated,and below is an EASY way to do it!!

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