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.
These 130mm long top pour soft plastics are my take on a soft plastic imitation of a prawn and I use them when targeting not only barramundi but also other larger fish that thrive on prawns such as fingermark, flathead and grunter.
These are big soft plastics for big barra. I make them in just 6 colours and fish them in Awoonga Dam which is of course a freshwater impoundment. I also fish them in coastal barra waters including Gladstone Harbor and the Narrows.
The Jerky J Swimbait 5″ is the little brother of the &’ version. It’s a great lure to employ at those times when barra are looking for smaller baits or when smaller baits that land softly are required. My three favorite colours are: Salt and pepper as in the top of the photo above Golden … Read more
Powerbait hollow belly soft plastics are available in 5″ and 6″ versions and I use them for both weedless and jig hook presentations. The four colours that I use are: Tennessee shad Hitch Bone shad Blue gill Weedless hook presentations In those cases The reason for that is that they are indeed hollow and so … Read more
I have progressively modified the Slickrig by reducing the internal weight so that it swims mid water, have modified the tail so that it swims better at a slow speed, added a subtle rattle to make it easier for barra to detect the lure and finally have added either a spinner or a set of trebles under the lure to induce and convert more hits to hook ups.
The Jerky J Swimbait 7″ is one of just a handful of soft plastics I rely on when Barramundi fishing in competitions. Predominately this is a dusk, dawn or full moonlight soft plastic. My three favorite colours are: Green Shad as in the top of the photo above Boneless Chicken which is a translucent pink … Read more
As the name implies these flies are built using a soft plastic lure body. I am happy to call this a fly because I fish it on a fly rod and fly line, cast it, retrieve it and land fish caught on it in the same way that I do when fish a traditional fly made of say fur and feather for say a brown trout in Lake Jindabyne NSW.
