Reidys B52
This lure swims at around 1.5 meters and fills a gap in my arsenal for a lure that I can retrieve over weed gardens … the barra come from nowhere and unless your on your game they’ll be back there in a flash.
Barramundi
Bassday sugarpen 120F
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.
Rapala x-Rap Walk 09
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.
Barambah bony shad lure – swimbait
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.
Chasebait – flick prawns
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.
Zerek Flat Shad
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.
Zerec fish trap – vibe/crankbait 110mm
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”.
Hard body lures
Quicklinks There are times when the right bait for barra is a hard bodied lure. Selecting the right style and swimming depth of hard bodied lure is definatley one of the keys to that process. You can do things with hard bodied lures that you can’t do with any of the soft plastics … Read more
Jackall Squirrel 79
Jackall Squirrel lures are all Hank tuned and consequently they come out of the box already tricked up with hardware suitable for barra. The original 79mm version swim off the cast at around 3 meters and a little deeper on the troll and come in a version including rattles and a silent version. In late … Read more
2020 Venom – Lake Awoonga Open
On 29th September I was fortunate to be invited by Scott McAuley, who I have fished with socially on quite a few occasions, to partner up with him to fish the 2020 Venom – Lake Awoonga Open. Many thanks to Scott … I had a wonderful time and learned so much.