Dry fly wings
Wings on flies have two main purposes.The first is to help the fly look like the natural and the second is to help with the floating capability of the fly. Dry fly hackle wings satisfy both of those criteria.
Shrek – Chatto’s viva
It seems that these days the term ‘VIVA’ has been given to the very popular and successful colour combination of light green or chartreuse and black.
Reel Action vibes
Reel Action Vibes which work out at about $8 each including freight. For shallow water I select the 95mm with 20gram of weight and for deep water I go for 115mm with 45grams of weight
Soft plastic – paddle tail plastisol based
Paddle tail soft plastics are my go to starting point lure when fishing for barramundi. From all the different types of lures the paddle tails, well at least the good ones as described below, have an swimming action that barra often home in on.
Chatto’s soft plastics etc
I really enjoying making top pour soft plastics and am keen to share with fishonfly and fishonlure members the process of making soft plastics and will progressively add that information to this link.
Coastal & Estuary – check list
TRADIRIONAL PLASTERSOL SOFT PLASTICS Castaic-jerky-j-swimbait-5″ Powerbait Hollow Belly paddle tails Grub-tail-prawn Molix RT Shad 4.5″ VIBES Jackall-transam-95 Samaki-vibelicious-vibe-lure-8-5cm Zerec-fish-trap 90 & 110mm Reel-Action-Vibes 95mm with 20gram & 115mm with 45grams TPE PPRAWNS Chasebait – flick prawns HARD BODY LURES SURFACE LURES Bassday Sugapen Floating 70mm and 95mm walk … Read more
Coastal & Estuary Lures
This post is not a be all and end all of a selection for Coastal Waters and Estuary fishing just a starting point selection for you to give you some ideas and for your to build your selection on.
Bass and Bream Lures
I find that there is enough similarity between the lures I use for both species to treat them basically as interchangeable and consequently I only need to carry three separate lure boxes as described below.
We are moving closer to the bream spawning season:
Because I have seen plenty of bream around boat ramps in the last couple of weeks you may want to give a little thought to getting you bream gear ready … I have certainly started doing just that.
Fingermark 2
One of the most popular target species of fish, not only in Australia but throughout the world, are the Lutjanids and we are lucky enough to have two of the family, Fingermark (L.johnii) and Mangrove Jack (L.argentimaculatus), endemic to our coastal and estuary waters in Central Queensland. Whilst very closely related they are still quite … Read more