Which Lure/soft Plastic For Which Fish Options

[Sir Reel]

Great wright up Mully, Thanks for taking the time to post.

The bozzos look great but how do you rig a hook through them. I saw somewhere that you can cut the head off & use a jig head but I feel that those eyes on the bozzos look great & would work a treat.
Can you show me what hook and waight you would use to have it swim correctly.

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[Mully]

You can use the same style as my improved texas rig but not down the body of the bozo rather start from the head add your own weight or even used the heads with the weight on the shanks so as to be able to hide it within the shad itself like below

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using this you can push the weigh right up inside the shad making it look more lifelike..


This is the Texas rig but at the front...

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use the method down the very bottom to rig to do the same style as above....


Another jig head utilising the actual shads head sits very neatly also...

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# 1. Slide the "worm weight" onto the line, and attach the line to the hook.
# 2. Insert a rigging or sewing needle with line attached up ther length of the worm until desired point of entry is achieved then exiting the worm and pulling through the line...
#3. Attach the weedless worm hook to your line and push the hook eye and knot up into your pre made needle hole so it is invisible
#4. With the hook end push the hook up into the body until it almost comes out the worms top side but not through..

This style is almost snag proof and having the hook further down the tail increases your chances of hook ups especially with bream trying to pull your pants down,give it a go and find some nasty structure to test it out....











hope it helps if not just ask ill post up a video of the riggingfor you,,,ill make one up for you to follow...

[Sir Reel]

Thanks for that Mully, Top effort. I will have to get myself some bozzos now ond try them out.

[Jumpus GooDarus]

Hey Mully !

To bad I didn't recal that setup last couple of days may have come in velly handy.

Had a bit of probs with floating weed on the SP's so tell me do you get much loose floating weed caught up on the jig head ??

[Mully]

depends on the rig up the texas styles are weedless run the m through the nastiest weed and you will be ok...
Most floater weed will catch up regardless of which rig you use as the weed will be pushed down onto the lowest point and stuff things up eventually.
floting weed is a bugga plain and simple makes me cringe [lol]

[Breamen]

Hi guys, let me start by saying that i only fish soft plastics, and have done so for a few years now.
For those starting out it's not too hard in chosing which lures to get.
Try to keep it simple at the start and only get one or two packs that 'Match the hatch' in the places you want to fish. You can experiment with others later.
Flatties & Bream will both bite on the same lure and Whiting will take a worm on a regular basis.
Jig heads are simple, start out with size 2 hook on a 1/8th & 1/16 head & 1/24 head weight. Swap the weights depending on water current speed & depth etc, remembering that fish will travel up to catch the lure if it's presented in the right manner. For what it's worth we use TT's as they hold the lure well & don't split the plastic.
Now you have a lure similar to the natural bait available to your area & a varity of weights to suit most conditions you can practise your casting & retrives (how you work the plastic).
We don't use Gulp as it's not a true lure, and yes we have a definite favourite that always work well for us. Minnows & worms from Tackle Craft.
You should be able to get three bags of lures & three packs of jigs for around $50 which is great value.
From there you practise and ask lots of questions.
Send me a PM if you want some help, happy to give out info gained from our Comp's.

[Spudly]

Hi guys, let me start by saying that i only fish soft plastics, and have done so for a few years now.
For those starting out it's not too hard in chosing which lures to get.
Try to keep it simple at the start and only get one or two packs that 'Match the hatch' in the places you want to fish. You can experiment with others later.
Flatties & Bream will both bite on the same lure and Whiting will take a worm on a regular basis.
Jig heads are simple, start out with size 2 hook on a 1/8th & 1/16 head & 1/24 head weight. Swap the weights depending on water current speed & depth etc, remembering that fish will travel up to catch the lure if it's presented in the right manner. For what it's worth we use TT's as they hold the lure well & don't split the plastic.
Now you have a lure similar to the natural bait available to your area & a varity of weights to suit most conditions you can practise your casting & retrives (how you work the plastic).
We don't use Gulp as it's not a true lure, and yes we have a definite favourite that always work well for us. Minnows & worms from Tackle Craft.
You should be able to get three bags of lures & three packs of jigs for around $50 which is great value.
From there you practise and ask lots of questions.
Send me a PM if you want some help, happy to give out info gained from our Comp's.

Thanks for the Info Breamen!

And a big WELCOME to the Site!

[A pirate]

yesterday i poppered for whiting uning a small clear popper, as for SP's i use Tsunami at the moment and come up with results like this


47cm Flathead

[quintrex101]

got myself a pack of berkley shrimp in the colour NP ( look at mullys post) i will try them next time i get out

[jack]

Check out my post

http://www.fishing-oz-style.info/forum/ind...?showtopic=1468

flathead are easy once you find them. just make sure you get to the bottom properly.

bream I have not had much luck on. got some snapper and flounder on a 4 inch green stick bait.


stick baits seem to work best for me sofar, but I must admit I have not yet targetted bream specifically yet.


Oh yeah setup: graphite spin stick 2-4 kg, size 2500 reel and 6 lb braid with 6-8 pound FC trace tied with a double uni and a clip for quick change at the end (thanks jg for that tip)

contemplating getting a 1-3 kg spin stick and a 4 lb braid for going after bream.
Watching the auctions J.G (hint hint)

Jack

[poly]

Hi guys, let me start by saying that i only fish soft plastics, and have done so for a few years now.
For those starting out it's not too hard in chosing which lures to get.
Try to keep it simple at the start and only get one or two packs that 'Match the hatch' in the places you want to fish. You can experiment with others later.
Flatties & Bream will both bite on the same lure and Whiting will take a worm on a regular basis.
Jig heads are simple, start out with size 2 hook on a 1/8th & 1/16 head & 1/24 head weight. Swap the weights depending on water current speed & depth etc, remembering that fish will travel up to catch the lure if it's presented in the right manner. For what it's worth we use TT's as they hold the lure well & don't split the plastic.
Now you have a lure similar to the natural bait available to your area & a varity of weights to suit most conditions you can practise your casting & retrives (how you work the plastic).
We don't use Gulp as it's not a true lure, and yes we have a definite favourite that always work well for us. Minnows & worms from Tackle Craft.
You should be able to get three bags of lures & three packs of jigs for around $50 which is great value.
From there you practise and ask lots of questions.
Send me a PM if you want some help, happy to give out info gained from our Comp's.

thanks for the tips mate and a very big welcome to the sight

[Jumpus GooDarus]

Well guys Breamen gave me a bag of his Tackle Craft SP's to try out the other week I was using them in that spin day report that I did the other week.

I'm no expert on SP's but know how to use fishing gear we did allright in that report & considering the amount of chopper tailer hits that I got on those SP's I didn't have to change a single plastic they withstood the teeth marks velly well.


Think I'll have to swap some of my YFT techniques for some of his Breamen techniques though

Esp this year where I want to land a YFT on SP built the rod for it last year but the fish weren't there in any no's

[quintrex101]

i think he is out of gear jack

[jack]

i think he is out of gear jack

uh............

yeah right


Jack

[Mully]

Those prawns work well mate,also extremely good on flatties, good luck and show us your pictures.....

Caught mulloway flatties and big bream with them working different styles,remember to always vary your style and most fish especially bream and jewies will hit a sinking bait.... go and get em

This post has been edited by Mully: May 15 2008, 07:35 AM