Dangerous and wicked nocturnal fish

Moray. Fish that are often hunted at night, can be caught per day. At night a lot more interesting. When they are caught trying to rid sang and thickens the interesting nodes. They knows mess over 10 meters of line, which quietly becomes unusable. the incredible combination of tendons, muscles and strenght. A painful and poisonous bite, and can tear off the bite location. Moray ( muraena helena ) can grow up to 1.5 meters in lenght and reach about 10 kg weight. Lives at depths of 2 - 100 meters. Has strong jaws and sharp teeth to them, which are facing the back. Moreover has another jaws in the throat. there is no escape. Moray eat everything from crab over cephalopods to fish. No natural enemies. If someone or something closer to its hole attack angrily and aggressively. If you intend to let the Murine back into the sea it is not enough just to cut the string, but it mast rid of the hook. Hook can and often causes an infection in her mouth. Do not even try to catch Morey with your hand. It is best to catch with special pliers and knife stab in the brain, which is located behind the eyes. I usually cutting off her spine behind the head. But be careful because even dead Morey can bite. I usually cutting her jaws also. Morey meat is delicious. In ancient Rome, wealthier Romans had pools in which they kept Morey that are fed with special food for even better taste. Moray well tolerated captivity and is frequent guest in many aquariums.

Night auxiliary tool

This is a tool that we usually carry and use at night fishing, and it's basically all we need. Two pairs of pliers, two knives, scissors, diamond rasp, and lighter. Why lighter, if we have a light?
There is always the possibility of chatching weever fish ( trachinidae ), which is poisonous. Venom is located on the first dorsal fin, and the gill cover. Weever meat is delicious and it would be a shame to bring him back into the sea, so it would be best to remove its poisonus spines immediately after the catch. We use pliers and scissors. With pliers firmly catch weevers head and with scissors rip his venomus spines. But be careful. Weever is aware his poisonous spines and he will try to stab you. Yet, despite caution, accidents do happen. Therefore we use a lighter to ignite stabbed place, because the poison of Weever is termolabile. After we warmed up stabbed place, it is necessary as soon as possible to go to emergency room. Weever sting is very painful. Pain in the beginning becomes stronger, and after about 20 minutes become almost unbearable. Stabbed place much bleeding, first white, then turns red, and the flood and accrues. Swollen place is usually quite widespread, can affect whole hand. Arm can fall down and so you can not even move. Sometimes we have symptoms such as nausea, dizziness, dry mouth, vomiting, cold sweat, and even unconsciousness. In heat patients can cause death. Composition of the venom varies depending on the sex and season. In the male is more toxic.

Most often nocturnal fish

Most often fish that we catch at night are:
- gilt poll  ( sparus aurata )
- conger  ( conger conger )
- moray  ( muraena helena )
- two-banded bream  ( diplodus vulgaris )
- axillary seabream ( pagellus acrne )
- common pandora ( pagellus erythrinus )
- bull ray ( pteromylaeus bovinus )
- small-spotted catshark ( scyliorhinus canicula )
- saddled bream ( oblada melanura )
- horse mackerel ( trachurus trachurus )
- bass ( dicentrarchus labrax )
- sharks...

Night fishing and our way how to do it

First let us explain that we fish only for sport and for fun. Never catch more than law allow us, never keep the fish under measure. Never catch species which is forbidden to fish for breeding.  We start fishing usually about an hour before sunset. While we drive a boat to our hot spot, we are preparing the bait, and after 5-10 min. anchorage. Before we start fishing, we are checking that anchor hold on. We are anchoring usually on the depths between 7 to 25 meters. Take out fishing tool and fishing begins.




We start fishing before sunset because that's the time when fish will feed intensive preparing for night. As night falling intensity of fish bite become rare. Usually we catch bigger fish, even in higher numbers.

We fish by the hand without fishing rod, because better feeling of fish and it's more fun, and we enjoying it. We fishing with two tools, one with three hooks witch we are holding all the time. Two hooks we put one under another. Higher hook catch beyond about 1 meter under the bottom, and third hook catch on the bottom. The other fishing tool we made of one bigger hook an lead with free movement on the fishing line. Other tool we throw 10-15 meters away from boat and let it fish by itself. When fishing line start to go in sea, it's time for one fast and strong pull, that will make hook penetrate in the fish's mouth. Withdraw  begins, we prepare holder net because self-catching tool always bring bigger fish, and we turn on light to see and succeed to bring fish on the boat. About light we must confess that we try all kind of light, including cellphones, hand lights, petrol lamps... The most suitable source of light are head lamps, always easy to access. Just to be sure we have strong hand light.

For bait most often we use squid or fish pieces or even combination of these two.
However the most important thing in night fishing is patience, because sometimes could happen that fish doesn't bite for more than a hour. But patience always pays off. Dawn is the time when fish is most active until sun is up, when its the time to go home.
Usually we stay at night fishing approximately 8 hours.

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