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There are obviously a lot of flies that have been designed for estuary species and in the right conditions and on the right days most work. Whilst the standards like the crazy charlie, baited breath and clousers are all good flies and might work for you I found that they don't work consistently form me in the places I fish. This led me to modified and tweak various styles of flies and come up with a couple of new fly patterns to develop a range of flies that consistently take fish in Lake Illawarra, Minamurra River and the Shoalhaven system. I now carry just eleven fly patterns in my "Estuary" fly box and I have detailed them below.

Have a look at a full list of estuary flies featured on this web site:  QUICK LINK

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

Bread fly - floating

Bread fly sinking

Combo crab

Brown Red Green

Salty BMS

White Olive Orange

Estuary fly

Pumpkin/chartreuse Pumpkin/green Pumpkin/blood

Mud prawn

Crazy charlie

Root beer over pink Olive over pearl

Soft plastic

Pumpkin Gold Clear

Weed fly

Wiggle minnow

Chartreuse Orange Pink

Ripper

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