Posts Tagged ‘Small pelagics’

Often you’ll encounter small pelagics in estuary waters hunting bait-fish. These are great fun to target but it’s worth remembering that whist the fish your seeing may be small there are often bigger fish within the same hunting pack … small pelagics will take a fly on a heavier leader but the big ones will bring you undone if your leader is too light.

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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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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Chatto’s marabou bugger

My first fish on fly fell to the magic of a Woolly Bugger and many have gone the same way since then. Tied predominately as a prospecting fly for barra in Awoonga this fly also gets a swim in estuary and coastal waters when I am looking for grunter and fingermark.

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Clouser minnow

The Clouser in my view is the quintessential salt water fly. It can be tied in sizes to suit Bream or Billfish and with the correct dressing and size is equally at home in saltwater, trout and bass fisheries.

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