Saltwater – offshore

Coastal & Estuary – check list

TRADIRIONAL PLASTERSOL SOFT PLASTICS

 
Castaic-jerky-j-swimbait-5"

Powerbait Hollow Belly paddle tails

Grub-tail-prawn

Molix RT Shad 4.5"
 

VIBES

 
Jackall-transam-95

Samaki-vibelicious-vibe-lure-8-5cm

Zerec-fish-trap 90 & 110mm

Reel-Action-Vibes 95mm with 20gram & 115mm with 45grams
 

TPE PPRAWNS

 
Chasebait – flick prawns
 

HARD BODY LURES

 

SURFACE LURES

Bassday Sugapen Floating 70mm and 95mm walk the dog style lures
 

MID WATER LURES

79mm Hank Tuned Jackall Squirrel - sardine
 

DEEP WATER

Killalure River Rat 20feet

Chatto’s minnow – brown bomber inspired

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.

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Chatto’s minnow – guns & roses

Guns and Roses coloured of red over chartreuse are very popular hard body and soft plastic lure colours in Queensland and work equally well for flies particularly in low visibility water.

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Chatto’s minnow – Qantas colours

This is my favorite ‘all rounder’ colour for many flies that I use in Queensland and works in both fresh and salt water, day or night.

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Mutant clouser – natural

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.

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Baitfish fly- pink over pink and / or white

My clousers have progressively mutated to being tied out of synthetic Flash Blend. This is my best mutation to date and as well as being very durable it is slightly translucent and moves well in the water making the representation of a bait fish better than the original. It also sheds water well on the pick up and back cast making it easy to cast.

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Clouser – synthetic MKII

This is my favourite version of the clouser for use when targeting fish holding deep and is tied with H2O slinky fibre which makes the fly present as slightly translucent.

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Candy – pelagic

Matching the hatch is the key to catching pelagics such as queenfish, tuna, Australian salmon and herring on fly. These unweighted flies are like candy to pelagic fish because they closely match the form and function of a lot of naturals they are targeting. In smaller sizes, particularly in pink, they are a handy fly for targeting flathead and bream in estuary waters.

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Trailing hook fly – for use with articulated popper head

This fly is designed as a simple yet effective fly to be fished behind my articulated popper heads.

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Chatto’s blue water minnow

This is a larger blue water version of my very successful 'Flats minnow". It's a very fishy looking fly and has a little blood spot that adds to the appearance of the fly being a wounded fish.

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