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Estuary grub

01/09/202415/01/2020 by Stephen Chatterton

in the process of Tiewell being sold and reinvented the large rubber tails for #2/0 versions of my estuary fly never came back on the market. What I have come up with as an alternative is using the rear half of the 2.5? Z Man Grub Z. That has created an even better fly.

Categories Flies, Saltwater - tropical Tags #fishonfly, barred grunter, Blue water, Fingermark, Flathead, Grunter, jacks, Javelin fish, Mangrove Jack, silver grunter

Species – Mangrove Jack and Fingermark

01/09/202414/01/2020 by Stephen Chatterton

They chase the same sort of food items as bream, grunter and flathead including prawns and shrimp, small fish, crabs, molluscs such as rock oysters and worms so it is not surprising that representations of prawns and small bait fish preferably tied on solid #2/0 or #3/0 hooks are great flies for mangrove jack and fingermark.

Categories Members only Tags #fishonfly, Fingermark, jacks, Mangrove Jack

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