Soft plastic – paddle tail plastisol based *****

 
 

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Plastisol is a high quality liquid soft plastic that is Phthalate free and is the common base material for most soft plastic lures. Lures made of this material should not be stored with lures based on Elastec material such as Zman lures or lures made of TPE materials such as Chasebaits.

If plastisol based soft plastics are stored with either Elastec or TPE based lures those lures and the plastisol lures will melt on become disfigured.

Consequently I keep my plastisol based lures in one lure box and have separate lure boxes for each of my Elastec and TPE based lures.

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Paddle tails 

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. Retrieves can be at various speeds but my preference is a slow roll, sometimes the slower the better. Barra will regularly follow just inches behind working out what it is. Throw in a pause of just a second right up to say 20 seconds and that is often all it takes to convert the follow into a strike.

Alpha Gar – open/top pour soft plastic

These are big soft plastics for big barra. I make them in just 6 colours and fish them in Awoonga Dam which is of course a freshwater impoundment. I also fish them in coastal barra waters including Gladstone Harbor and the Narrows.

Castaic Jerky J Swimbait 5 inch

The Jerky J Swimbait 5″ is the little brother of the &’ version. It’s a great lure to employ at those times when barra are looking for smaller baits or when smaller baits that land softly are required. My three favorite colours are: Salt and pepper as in the top of the photo above Golden […]

Castaic Jerky J Swimbait 7 inch

The Jerky J Swimbait 7″ is one of just a handful of soft plastics I rely on when Barramundi fishing in competitions. Predominately this is a dusk, dawn or full moonlight soft plastic. My three favorite colours are: Green Shad as in the top of the photo above Boneless Chicken which is a translucent pink […]

Powerbait – Hollow Belly

Powerbait hollow belly soft plastics are available in 5″ and 6″ versions and I use them for both weedless and jig hook presentations. The four colours that I use are: Tennessee shad Hitch Bone shad Blue gill Weedless hook presentations In those cases The reason for that is that they are indeed hollow and so […]

Slick rig 130 – competition tuned with stinger or blade

I have progressively modified the Slickrig by reducing the internal weight so that it swims mid water, have modified the tail so that it swims better at a slow speed, added a subtle rattle to make it easier for barra to detect the lure and finally have added either a spinner or a set of trebles under the lure to induce and convert more hits to hook ups.

 

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Last Updated: February 21, 2022
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