Alpha Gar – Guns and Roses
A very popular lure colour is the Guns and Roses colour combination of green, yellow and red. This post is how I make my Alpha Gar in Guns & Roses colours as well as when to use them.
Barramundi
New personal best Awoonga Barra 21/9/23
Managed a couple of nice Barr at Lake Awoonga on 21st Sep with this 109cm beast being the best for the night and a new Awoonga personal best for me. And the added bonus was that it was caught on a soft plastic I crafted myself.
Salt water barramundi – life cycle
Barramundi are an interesting species of fish and live comfortably in fresh, brackish and salt water.
Knots – FG knot how to tie
Since I perfected this tie of the FG knot I have not suffered a failure of the knot and it has accounted for heaps of big barra.
Soft plastic – paddle tail plastisol based *****
Soft plastics are a great offshore option. I particularly like dropping Alpha Gar and Alpha prawn soft plastics on 1 to 2 ounce weighted jig heads or elevator jigs so as to cheat fast tidal runs and have a chance at connecting to big predators.
Soft plastic -grub plastersol based
This is the only grub soft plastic that I carry and I fish it with confidence in those very quiet times when we can see the fish on the sounder but they are not interested.
Check list – lake barra outings
One of my favourite past times is dusk and night fishing for big barramundi in Lake Awoonga. To be successful in the dark it’s important to have the right gear at hand and knowing where each item is.
Make a soft plastic … catch a barra
These 5 barra above are all over a meter and have been caught in Lake Awoonga over the last 5 weeks on soft plastics that I rigged up in my own very personal way on soft plastics I poured myself in moulds for top pour soft plastics that I finessed and made myself.
Soft plastic hand pouring
Process: In the example below I am making two 46g two layered soft plastics. So in this case that will take 92g of material. The bottom layer is deeper and will use about 60% of that and the top layer is only about 7mm thick so it will use only the remaining 40 % of … Read more
Z Man DieZel MinnowZ – 7″
Barra love big baits and this softy is getting up there. This is one of may favorite baits for low light or in dirty water conditions