Another in the ‘How to and Q&A series’. Killing bream and snapper is arguably more difficult than some of our more ‘streamlined’ species. Instead of simply knocking them on the head, cutting the throat or severing the spinal cord, bream and snapper are best killed by spiking. Spiking might seem daunting at first, and you might have the unpleasant experience…
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Iki jime aka spiking a good online guide… Humanely killing your catch
Good video and explanation of iki jime or spiking fish… As covered in how to kill and care for your catch post, the most humane method to dispatch fish… Great thing about the website is it has photos of where the fishes brain is located in different commonly caught salt and freshwater species, so no excuses 🙂 start spiking, your…
The basics: Killing and caring for your catch
So this is the next post in our back to basics series, where we aim to cover some of the bedrock basics of fishing. For a lot of you this probably won’t be a huge amount of use, you’ll already being doing all this anyway. The purpose of these posts is to provide basic information to beginners. While you would expect…