Saltwater – offshore
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{{+1}}Chatto’s minnow – brown bomber inspired{{-1}}
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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.{{end}}
Last Updated: April 11, 2020
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{{+1}}Chatto’s minnow – guns & roses{{-1}}
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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.{{end}}
{{+1}}Chatto’s minnow – Qantas colours{{-1}}
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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.{{end}}
{{+1}}Mutant clouser – natural{{-1}}
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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.{{end}}
{{+1}}Baitfish fly- pink over pink and / or white{{-1}}
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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.{{end}}
{{+1}}Clouser – synthetic MKII{{-1}}
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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.{{end}}
Categories: Flies, Saltwater - offshore, Saltwater - tropical
Tags: #fishonfly, Blue water, GT's, Queenfish, queenies, Tuna 
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{{+1}}Candy – pelagic{{-1}}
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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.{{end}}
Categories: Big fish flies - temperate & tropical destinations, Flies, Fly colour choices - #10 weight tropical destination, Saltwater - offshore, Saltwater - tropicalTags: #fishonfly, #spotters, Big fish flies, Central Qld, GT's, pelagics, Pink and / or white, Queenfish, salmon, Small pelagics, Translucent flies, Tropical species flies, Tuna No Comments »
{{+1}}Trailing hook fly – for use with articulated popper head{{-1}}
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This fly is designed as a simple yet effective fly to be fished behind my articulated popper heads.{{end}}
Categories: Flies, Saltwater - offshore, Saltwater - tropicalTags: #fishonfly, GT's, pelagic fish, pelagics, Popper flies, surface feeders, Tuna No Comments »
{{+1}}Chatto’s blue water minnow{{-1}}
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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.{{end}}
{{+1}}Bendback{{-1}}
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The bendback is very effective fly in locations that contain a lot of structural hazards such as oyster racks, mangroves, tree stumps and rock bars. The design of the fly reduces the propensity of the fly to snag. Choose the colours of your materials so that your version mimics local bait fish.{{end}}
Categories: Flies, Saltwater - estuary, Saltwater - offshore, Saltwater - tropicalTags: flatsfishing, pelagics, saltwater, tropical No Comments »