how can i kill a morina instantly? i have cought a couple over the past 2 weeks and always had to wait for them to die..
Thanks
Hit it hard on its tail !! It will die in seconds.
Always be careful when dealing with them especially if big !!
Chris 8)
Do like gazzetta said and it shall work and be really carefull xtajn
thank you for your quick reply i will do that next time....wish me luck hehe :D
be care full with that hehe... it's mouth is a very sharpen knife..
I got the idea from lapsi boy, that when you get it up just throw it in a "Xkora"
Yes thats the way i handle those mosters...i throw it in a sack and leave it die quietly...
if you have a 'ganc' gaff it near its mouth so as to have a very good grip and that way you can control it. then hit it really hard on its head or tail. obviously be really carefull from its mouth as once it bites it does not let go!
it cannot let go as its teeth are bent inwards.
As Gazzetta says hit it hard between its vent (arse) & its tail, thats where its "lymph heart" is, it will then die very quickly, so you dont have to keep looking where it is! :o
altough it s not compatible with this topic exactly.once i was fishing in quiet beach with a bogue as a live bait and after about a half an hour a fish got hooked up and it was taking many line because it was a very strong fish .it took me several time till i began to see float and lucky there was a hunter and when he saw me that it was very difficult to land the enormous fish without having a gaff or a fishing net he came up with the idea to shoot the fish and he killed it .then i landed it safely and it was a well sized barracuda more than 5kg surely because i didnt weighed it because i gave it to the hunter immediatly
Shooting the morina is a fast way to kill it aswell, good thinking boneshaker.
bit it was a barracuda.a 0.20 euro hunting shell is better that 9 stiches in your feet haha
QuoteShooting the morina is a fast way to kill it aswell, good thinking boneshaker.
Yeah that would do it!! LOL
And lots of hunters around to help at the moment too! it was like vietnam when i went fishing 2 days ago!!
In the past me and a very old friend of mine used to go fishing for Morina and we used to catch really big ones. I used to kill them with 2 very long, longnose pliers which I bought from (rolson). They are 14 inch long and it's very safe to grip them from the mouth. use one to hold it from the bottom jaw and with the other one just squash the upper jaw including the brain for few seconds and it will start shaking and dies within 2 mins.
if they are really big we used a plastic 3inch drain pipe slitted from one side so that you pass the line from the slit and then slide it over the morina in order to have only the head out of the pipe and it will be impossible for the morina to knot her self with your hand. and then u can use the pliers easily.
to be honest I really love killing does bastards ::)
Be carefull if opting for the shot gun, that the fish isn't in the boat, or you'll be swimming. LOL
At least its open season now.So you can shoot it no problem :D ;) :) ;D
hehe you will just see a whole splash of running lead straight into the fish haha ....i love hunting as well as fishing... im a nature boy
This is no Joke: The only time caught a morina was a few years ago, and while I held it steadily from its head, tried to disgorge the hook. The blighter rolled around my arm and tried to bite me in the hand...so I paniced, and bite down hard on its head!!!!.....while telling the SOB what you can do, I can do better!!!!
I remember once Many many moons ago i joined a fishing weekend at cirkewwa with my father and uncle and loads of policemen which used to work with this uncle of mine, after the first 5 hours of fishing there where around 15+ morini held in buckets and bags (still alive) being a guy who hates killing fish I opted to trow these viscios things in a wide hole next to us. After 32 hours strait of fishing with something like 20 rods this pool was pretty much full. Guess how many cuts and bites the guys got before we headed home ?
Imo best way to handle a morina is to get a pair of scissors cut the hook line and watch it swim down.
Once me adn my grandpa caught a morina 14kilos on a 12 foot boat while collecting a deep long line. We had to stay 3 hours on the engine box waiting for it to die because every time we tried to reach it we couldn't manage because it was very powerful. So I think the best way for morini is cut the line and let it go.....................................
Why throw it away it is very good fish to eat.When I catch one when diving just hold it behind her head with gloves because it is very slippery and with the knife I cut where the upper and lower teeth join together after I put the knife between her eyes and she dies
Why complicate life ?? just keep a sack and throw it in as soon as it comes up !
My friend when afish is caught its a bad thing to let her suffer even a morina
here i go again, sorry but what is a morina ? ??? ??? ??? ???
A morina is a moray eel ;)
just trow it in a sack... jump on it a bit and "Sabbata ma xi hajt" u tmut dw lol.. Get the hook out by just poping a bit it's head out after it completly dies (a few minutes) and get it out carefully.
That's all folks!
one of my fishing tools when going rock fishing is a baton (lembuba) with an iron tip....i hit hit hard the eel on the head and tail....usualy its enough 8)
lol...The best moment after catching a morina is when i hit the sack to the wall or to the floor and than i look inside and i see a total slauther = R.I.P LOL :P
Ramxx if it dosen't die with the method of the "lembuba" I think if you find a "Kantun" in some corner and just throw it on it's head MAYBE it dies :P... LOL
@RAMMX.You can use it to break your head as well ;) when you are not catching fish :P :) ;)
il certainly do it camkev...when ill do it i will join you in seeing immaginary fish!!!! lol
you can also... put it in a plasic bag and sit on it : ) just to feel it , cheers lol ;D 8)
interesting how many differnet ways to kill a morina! will try some and see what works best when i catch one, and i would like to ask the guy who asked the first question, xtjan i think, DID YOU CATCH ANOTHER ONE AND KILLED IT? IF YES TELL US HOW:):) NO SHOTGUN I HOPE
Have looked into this as have caught quite a few latley , the best & hopefully the least cruel way of killing it is to chop the head off . Came across this video of how they kill them in Tiawanese restaurants. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SEb_vJa7Hg
loool nice vedio tantaka
Ghalla Thilandiza il-qatla lol
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loool nice video tantaka
Thailand's way of killing lol
Isma l-ahwa, jien qaddis minix u xi morina meta jitolbuni xa wahda naqbada wkoll, u veru hija huta xi ftit jew wisq ta min jistmerra, imma dik hija in-natura, Heqq mhux kulhadd sabih bhali :P
Imma certu kliem krudili nipprova kemm jista jkun nevitah, Tinsewx l-ahwa, dan kulhadd jista jarah, titfghux gebel fuq saqajna jahasra................. :-X
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Listen guys, I'm no saint and when asked to do so I catch a sea ray and it's a sea creature which isn't that nice but that's nature. Not everyone is good looking like me :P
But certain work words like cruel should be avoided, remembre the forum is public and anyone can surf through it, be careful guys . . . . :-X
LOOOL nice video, imma krudili wisq.... al kem ekk daqqa u mietet ... imma jek thalija tmut wehed toqod tmut bmod naturali ija krudili ukoll...
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LOOOL nice video, but it's too cruel.... altough that's just one hit and won't suffer ... but if you leave it to die by a natural way would be more cruel...
When I'm diving I very rarely catch morays - last time I caught one was about 1 year ago as a friend of mine wanted one and I shot the first large one I encountered (was with Simon and Edward). Although I never tried eating a moray, I never shoot them as a general rule, as it's hard to kill them - I always shoot at the head or as close to it as I can get but it always takes long to kill such a fish - maybe I'm soft and spearfishing is not good for me...but I hate slow deaths!
I don t like fishing for morina much.One is the danger after catching and two what to do with it afterwards .When i tried to eat it was excessively full of bones .Maybe you have some kind of trick how to clean it or cook it?
ma tantx jien kapaci biex insajjar pero ohti u hafna nies jghidu tajba hafna al-aljotta, u ohti tghid li togobha bhala huta wkoll...pero jista jkun ax li qeda miehu jistad u qatt ma jaqbad xejn allura qatt ma daqet huta tajba:):) :)
pero issa nsaqsiha kif l-ahjar tamilha
i am not a very good cook but my sister and a lot of other people say its makes very good fish soup, and my sister says she likes it as a fish as well....but maybe because her partner goes fishing but never catches any decent fish :) :) :)
But now i will ask her the best way to cook it (shanook)
Thanks for the info.For -aljotta i think it s good because you prepare it and the remaining of the fish ,be thrown away.its meat seems good but with excessive bones like netted from inside with bones.
Jiena meta imur nistad inhob nitfa qazba blazar sunara 1 u vopa shiha u meta naqbat xi wahda lahjar li insib li kont ninza il kalkura u intija daqtejn tajba fdemba u taxixa loool. Smajt ukol li aw min jaqtala bica min demba u tigi mansa hafna din adni ma pruvajtix ax ilni ma imur alijom
when i go fishing i always like to use a rod with cable wire and hook a whole bouge and when I catch one, the best way i find to kill it that I take of my sandals and hit it hard on the tail and it gets tamed. heard also that there's who cuts a piece of the tail to tame it but still i've didn't tried it out cause recently i wasn't going fishing for them (fishfinder)
Dik thablu raskom xejn bix toqtluha lahwa... aqbdu u poggu fuqha ux : ) nejd il verita, qatt ma qbad mil lart bil qasba morina.... ma nafx forsi se tistema banali, imma jek taqbad u tixheta go basket ezempju mhux tithabat fih bla periklu al hadd?
Dont worry as to how to kill it, my friends......just sit on it eh :) to teel u the truth, i never caught one from land with a rod...i dont know maybe it sounds silly, but if u had to release it in a basket or bucket it wouldnt be able to harm anyone? (shanook)
I can vouch that it makes a nice fish soup (aljota). Its nice to eat as well or added to the fish soup.
If you want to catch morina from the shore go to Sliema where the captain morgan boats go from and walk up to the left and fish in front of the church up to the hotel swimming pool. fish on the bottom useing smelly fish,not fresh, as bait.the bait wants to be approx 2 inches by a quarter of an inch. don,t strike when the rod tip moves leave it untill the line starts moving. use size one hooks .GUARENTEED.
sorry to wake up a dead topic guys....
last sunday i went to the normal fishing spot (from land), using shrimps...
i started fishing as usual, 5m rod...all of a sudden the rod dived into the water...after a few minutes of struggle a morina came up to the surface (1st morina). As soon as i saw the morina, the diameter of it was very close to a normal cocacola 2L bottle, i slowly gave it time to tire it out, after a while the morina dived into the rocks. i wasn't able to get it out... i had to take the line to the limit...and :( the line got cut...
guys could you give me some tips what to do in case another morina got caught on my line??!?! and stuck inside the rocks??
Just cut the line fava ;) A morina is worthless.
yes i know bigboy, for me, since i am not an experienced fisherman (like you), i wanted to bring that son of a B&%^! in the bucket.
I can't understand ???why you are saying that it is worthless bigboy Morina like some other bottom fish can do a very good fish soup :P. All to do is put it into a net while cooking and you will not have any spines or bones around into your soup besides this it can be nice to fish especially "meta trejhila"
Fisheye for fava who is not experienced it gould easily hurt him if not handled well.
I do keep them when i catch on long lines because a friend of mine eats them but i handle them well and always gaff them when close to the boat i take no chances.
Sometimes i catch 20kg + of mrejjen so
I got your point Bigboy and it is never enough to stress out how much attention one has to take when handling such dangerous fish good point.