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I have lumped the flies that I prefer for Australian Native fish into one group as by in large the species I target are all structure oriented. They tend to frequent areas with structure such as weed, sunken logs, rock bars, under cut banks, holes and drop offs etc. and generally react in much the same way.

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From the above list I choose to carry just these few:

Dry flies

If there is a secret to bass fly fishing, and a useful dry fly technique for other native fish species, its got to be putting your fly in the zone and keeping it there for as long as you can. With dry flies that's fairly easy. Cast it right into the snags or above the margins of the weed beds and hold it there without drag for as long as you can. If nothing happens then just give the fly a little wiggle so that it creates rings on the surface of the water and wait again. Repeat this process a few times until your satisfied that the structure you are covering doesn't hold an interested fish or until the fly is out of the zone. If fishing static doesn't work than a great alternative is to position yourself so that you can fish along the structure and then strip the dry flies in using a variety of speeds twitches and pauses.

Poppers

Black is my favourite but chartreuse is a great alternative particularly on clear sunny days

Ray's beetle variant

Black with black or natural rabbit tails tails is great but you should also carry "green beetle" and Christmas Beetle variants

Booby Fished as a surface fly on a floating line

Black/black opal body Black/red body Black/chartreuse body

Chatto's booby beetle

Black/black opal body, Black/yellow body & Black/chartreuse body

Foam bass hopper

Yellow/green with root beer body Orange/black with black opal body

Bass stimulator

Brown with yellow wing Green with yellow wing

Wiggle Minnow Fished as a sub surface fly on a sink tip or floating line

Red Orange Yellow Lime

Wet flies

For wet flies its best to either find the fish on a sounder or have an educated guess where the fish are and then to dredge the fly through that zone at various speeds - locking into the speed and depth that works. In my experience if your not hooking up to structure occasionally your not in the hunt.

Booby Fished traditionally on a sinking line

Black/black opal body Black/red body Black/chartreuse body

Wiggle minnow Fished traditionally on a sinking line

Red Orange Yellow Lime

BH Flash Harry variants

Red White Chartreuse Black pearl

Estuary fly

Bass vampire Chartreuse Red Yellow

Straggle shrimp

Floating yabby

World wide there are heaps of species of fish that are described as 'bass'. The following web site has information to many of those species and is certainly worth a detailed look. I will be surprised if there in not some element in the web site to improver your 'bass' fishing: http://bassfishing-gurus.com/link-to-us.php.

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