There are a lot of colour combinations of Christmas Island Special (CXI) flies that my mates and I have seen on our various trips to Christmas Island and Aitutaki. Some work sometimes and not others and some work more often than not. The prawn pink coloured and my version of the ring burner he CXI … Read more
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.
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
[map state=”QLD”] Mast head and other off shore reefs Rundle Island (top of Curtis Island) Facing island reefs including Perl Rocks and Sable Chief Jenny Lind and Seal rocks Channel markers Gear options: 1) General fishing: 15/50 with 30lb braid, 50 flouro and a #4 fastatch clip. This can fish for “big fish” (particularly, barra … Read more
This amazing estuary fly tied in Qantas colours of red and white or natural colours of olive and shrimp is like candy to many estuary species. This estuary version is tied on a size #2/0 hook with a 3/16″ dumbbell eyes.
Whilst not designed to represent any particular bait fish I have designed this fly to have a shape, form and function similar to many of the little fish that predators hunt. This #2/0 estuary fly is 9 cm long and because it’s unweighted it’s relatively easy to cast. It’s a great fly to use when … Read more
This is the third in my series of scrounger flies and like the scrounger baitfish and the scrounger jelly prawn it’s tied on a worm hook which in soft plastic parlance is also referred to as a weedless hook and more often than not this fly can be retrieved not only through weed but also over or around most structure such as detritus matter, drowned timber, rocks etc, in rivers and lakes, without being snagged up.
This fly can be cast onto a muddy bank, right into mangroves and onto rock bars and then can be retrieved over and through all manner of structure with an extremely low incidence of getting snagged up.
Even for pelagics such as tuna, mackerel, queenfish & trevally matching the hatch is often critical to success. This fly is my version of a hardy head which is one of the baitfish that particularly tuna and queenfish target in Central Queensland but because of its form and function it’s also a good representation of some other small baitfish that these hunters target.
This fly is designed to be fished very slowly and is one of my favorite targeting flies for barra in Awoonga dam. It’s not designed to represent any particular bait fish but it does have a shape, form and function similar to many of the little fish that barra target.
