Maneuvered up or down or held on the hang in front of barra I can see when I have my Garmin’s set in “Perspective” mode I can see not only the lure but also moving fish. As long as the barra hangs around I am happy to hold the lure in its vicinity imparting just the smallest of movements with the rod tip. When a barra does decide to feel the offing in its mouth all hell breaks loose … wow.
I over-paint my Juggernaut’s in two popular barra colours. The first is gold with black bars and the second is black with chartreuse bars. In each case the area where the light shines has two coats of undercoat so the the light is subdued but still faintly obvious to barra.
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.
The rule of 12ths … an easy way to know the approximate water depth at intervals of roughly 1 hour as the tide rises or falls.
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.
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.
Hard body lures in brown bomber colour have earned a place as a popular lure colour combination for barramundi in estuary and coastal mangrove edged water. The same colour scheme is a great colour combination for flies used to target barra along the edge of mangroves.
if I could only carry one colour mutant clouser that would be olive over UV shrimp. That one colour tied in a range of sizes covers a big cross section of fish that I target in Central Queensland.
Fly colours rules of thumb: For bright days bright colours, dark days dark colours, clear water translucent flies in natural colours, dirty water solid colours and match the hatch when possible.
This is a list of all the flies in my #10 weight fly box for temperate & tropical destinations sorted by colour.
