I often hear when out fishing or doing write ups for social media people saying I am lucky, I am skilled, all those sorts of things. To be brutally honest I am more the first 1 then anything else but it is the little things that my good mate Nolsy and I do that make the big difference in why we are so successful when we head out on the water. Don’t get me wrong we all have days when we don’t catch anything well except laughs with a good mate.

The next time you pull in your line and there's no hook on the end won't be the first or certainly the last time this happens when fishing. Sure there's some toothy critters in the passage like tailor, mangrove jacks and pike that are more than capable of removing a hook with their teeth, but in general most fish are fairly forgiving on your line and hooks. They are not however forgiving to poorly tied knots especially when dealing with light lines.

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Nirvana is referred to in Buddhism as the ultimate goal. It is the ultimate place to reach or state of being....... and guess what I'm convinced that fishermen and the type of beings we are, are always in search of theirs. My personal fishing nirvanas have certainly changed over the years. That's the great part about fishing and we are so lucky in South East Queensland (in and around the Pumicestone Passage in particular) to have such a diversity of environments to fish in. I