Lures

New personal best Awoonga Barra 21/9/23

Managed a couple of nice Barr at Lake Awoonga on 21st Sep with this 109cm beast being the best for the night and a new Awoonga personal best for me. And the added bonus was that it was caught on a soft plastic I crafted myself.

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Reel Action vibes

Reel Action Vibes which work out at about $8 each including freight. For shallow water I select the 95mm with 20gram of weight and for deep water I go for 115mm with 45grams of weight

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Soft plastic – paddle tail plastisol based

Paddle tail soft plastics are my go to starting point lure when fishing for barramundi. From all the different types of lures the paddle tails, well at least the good ones as described below, have an swimming action that barra often home in on.

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Chatto’s soft plastics etc

I really enjoying making top pour soft plastics and am keen to share with fishonfly and fishonlure members the process of making soft plastics and will progressively add that information to this link.

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Coastal & Estuary Lures

This post is not a be all and end all of a selection for Coastal Waters and Estuary fishing just a starting point selection for you to give you some ideas and for your to build your selection on.

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Bass and Bream Lures

I find that there is enough similarity between the lures I use for both species to treat them basically as interchangeable and consequently I only need to carry three separate lure boxes as described below.

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Brogo Dam

When full Brogo Reservoir, covers an area of around 95 hectares. The dam was constructed to meet local town water supply, irrigation and stock and domestic requirements.

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Samaki hardlicious vibe 110

Maneuvered up or down or held on the hang in front of barra I can see when I have my Garmin's set in "Perspective" mode I can see not only the lure but also moving fish. As long as the barra hangs around I am happy to hold the lure in its vicinity imparting just the smallest of movements with the rod tip. When a barra does decide to feel the offing in its mouth all hell breaks loose ... wow.

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Belista Juggenaut

I over-paint my Juggernaut's in two popular barra colours. The first is gold with black bars and the second is black with chartreuse bars. In each case the area where the light shines has two coats of undercoat so the the light is subdued but still faintly obvious to barra.

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Westin bony bream

The Westin "Bony the Bream Vibe is 100mm and 30g of weight and one of my favourite vibes particularly in stripy perch (black/orange) & smelt (which is basically white with a little orange).

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