Stephen Chatterton 
The colour I have selected is GT287 which is silver with a little bit of orange under the chin. This is thin enough to be a very good representation of the snub nose gar fish which is one of the dominant bait fish in Awoonga and many Qld dams.
This walk the dog type lure is an older model and the colours the orange chrome is no longer available. I was lucky to snag a couple of these at our local Tackle World. The new ones have a lateral tail fin that stabilizes the retrieve a little but I am happy without that because without the tail fin the swimming action is a little more erratic.
This is the only ZMan soft plastic that I carry in my barramundi kit. It gets a swim only a couple of times a year and whilst I have had some follows and a couple of hits I haven’t hook up on this set up yet. When it does hook up I am sure it will be a lot of fun.
I treat these lures as predominately deeper water prospecting lures and find that it’s best to retrieve them at as slow a pace as possible to maintain the fishing depth.
The Zerek Live Mullet is a jointed soft plastic swimbait that is built from the super strong TPE material. They swim well reaching depths of around 2 meters on a slow roll and of course swim a little shallower on faster retrieves.
The Jackall Transam 95mm weighs 20g and is the first vibe that I caught barra on in Central Queensland and it is still my favorite. It sinks quickly and has a really tight vibration at a range of speeds.
Incredibly realistic and made from ultra durable and flexible 10X material this is my favorite TPE type bait for chasing barramundi in salt water. I like to carry both versions in my “TPE baits” lure box so I have options in relation to retrieve speed and water depth.
This ingenious soft plastic paddle tail has been designed hollow and open to the water so that on the strike most of the extremely durable TPE material is easily squeezed out of the way, by the bite, increasing the hook up rate for a weedless rigged soft plastic paddle tail.
Made from TPE soft plastic material and with very strong hardware it’s more than up to handling big barra. Keep in mind that TPE soft plastics have to be stored away from traditional plastasol soft plastics and ZMan soft plastics that are made from their propriety soft plastic “plastec”.
Vibes area unique type of lure and some of the retrieves you can achieve with a vibe include after a long or short cast they can be swum back to the angler at different speeds, they can be dropped in difficult terrain such as next to a tree or other structure and then fished vertically or can be hopped back the the angler with or without pauses of any length.
