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Garmin Panoptics / Live scope – Perspective mode

The is the best ever (and least expensive) upgrade that I have made to my Garmin Panoptics set up.

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Threadfin Salmon – baits

Because Threadfin Salmon live in dirty water and have poor eyesight they have to rely on sensing prey with their very sensitive feelers so whatever bait you decide to use make sure that even at a slow speed they will be active with heaps of vibrations even when retrieved at a slow speed.

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Moon phases – my understanding

I have set out my understanding of moon phases below together with an outline of what each phase mean to me in relation to my Barramundi fishing.

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Threadfin Salmon

Threadfin are fantastic table and sport fish with big tails and plenty of vigor and would pull a similar sized salt water Barramundi backwards. They also have a well earned reputation of being finicky and difficult to catch.

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Knots – FG knot how to tie

Since I perfected this tie of the FG knot I have not suffered a failure of the knot and it has accounted for heaps of big barra.

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Make a soft plastic … catch a barra

These 5 barra above are all over a meter and have been caught in Lake Awoonga over the last 5 weeks on soft plastics that I rigged up in my own very personal way on soft plastics I poured myself in moulds for top pour soft plastics that I finessed and made myself.

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Calendar – Central Qld species

Food source JFMAMJJASOND Fly * Dark Side suggestions
Bream                         FLY
Mud prawn
PET shell prawn
Mutant clouser
DARK SIDE
Flathead                         Articulated swimmer
Mutant clouser
Mud prawn
Pregnant prawn
Articulated sinking flashy swimmer
Whiting                         Estuary fly
Mud prawn
PET shell prawn
Mutant clouser
Foam back prawn
Mangrove Jack                         Mud prawn
Pregnant prawn
Mutant clouser
Articulated booby
Poly head popper
Fingermark                         Mud prawn
Pregnant prawn
Articulated swimmer
Mutant clouser
Baitfish Bugger
Grunter (AKA Javlin)                         Mud prawn
Pregnant prawn
Articulated swimmer
Mutant clouser
Baitfish Bugger
Barramundi - saltwater                         Articulated sinking flashy swimmer
Articulated swimmer
Mutant clouser
Baitfish Bugger
Barramundi - impoundments incl full moon nights                         Articulated sinking flashy swimmer
Articulated swimmer
Mutant clouser
Baitfish Bugger
Threadfin Salmon - blues                         Pregnant prawn
Mudprawn
Mutant clouser
Baitfish Bugger
Threadfin Salmon - Kings                         Pregnant prawn
Mudprawn
Mutant clouser
Baitfish bugger
Big Queenfish                         #4/0 Mutant clouser
#4/0 Articulated bait fish
#3/0 pelagic candy
#4/0 Baitfish bugger
Smaller Queenfish                         #3/0 Mutant clouser
#3/0 Baitfish bugger
#3/0 Articulated swimmer
GT's, Golden Trevally, Blue Trevally etc.                         #4/0 Articulated bait fish

#3/0 Mutant clouser
#3/0 Baitfish bugger
#3/0 Pelagic candy
#3/0 Articulated swimmer

Mackerel                         #4/0 Mutant clouser
#4/0 Articulated bait fish
#4/0 Baitfish bugger
Tuna                         #4/0 Mutant clouser
#3/0 Pelagic candy
#4/0 Articulated bait fish
#4/0 Baitfish bugger

2020 Venom – Lake Awoonga Open

On 29th September I was fortunate to be invited by Scott McAuley, who I have fished with socially on quite a few occasions, to partner up with him to fish the 2020 Venom - Lake Awoonga Open. Many thanks to Scott ... I had a wonderful time and learned so much.

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Fly colour choices – #10 weight tropical destination

This is a list of all the flies in my #10 weight fly box for temperate & tropical destinations sorted by colour.

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Species – Mangrove Jack and Fingermark

They chase the same sort of food items as bream, grunter and flathead including prawns and shrimp, small fish, crabs, molluscs such as rock oysters and worms so it is not surprising that representations of prawns and small bait fish preferably tied on solid #2/0 or #3/0 hooks are great flies for mangrove jack and fingermark.

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