Soft lures in the Brissie

[Ash]

:evil: Whats anyone's thoughts on the best soft plastics for the river. Most of my fishing is with lures and ive had some luck with the berkley minnows and worms, Bream and catchfish on both. Does anyone adv to try any others or had luck with any other lures?:evil:

[Angus]

Mate pretty much all the fish is the Brisbane river gallery caught at Brekky Creek are with Plastics. Im going there this sunday to try and learn the skill as they seem to have huge success.

[Ash]

Pastics are great! i find more fun around certain areas to play with. There's nothing better then grabbing a decent bream from under a pontoon with a lure!

[BIG DAVE 1]

Im keen to know who use's hard-bodied lures in the saltwater reaches of the brisbane river? I use alot of them in the clear water rivers like the noosa river. Im keen to give them a try esspeically the \"River2sea\" 1\" bib-less crank baits.

[blue_mako]

i have a few good ones.... 3\" and 4\" powerbait powerminnow in pink lemonade for flatties... 2\" and 3\" powerbait powerminnow in pumkinseed... 2\" for bream and 3\" will catch you everything from bream to cod... ive caught a few catfish on extra scents aswel.... and i find 1/8th oz to be the best jighead weight...

cheers, troy

[Ash]

thanks troy,

I use some off them already in other areas, and since leaving origional post have done of my own testing. The flat head i got at moggil was on a prawn soft lure.

B/dave, i dont use alot of solid lures, but a few mates of mine use small poppers around the river for Bream.

The minnows seem to be doing the job almost everywhere at moment.

happy fishin.

[blue_mako]

im gesin the flatie you got u caught on a gulp shrimp would it?? just my opinions on gulps is that its cheating cose alot of times u get a fish on a gulp its cose of the taste not the action it gives... thats my opinions but yeh...

cheers, troy

[Ash]

It comes down to how you use it, and more importantly if you care that much! Poeple dont mind using a normal SP with scent on it. Yet realistically its the same thing? I've also heard people cry out about using berley too.

Some poeple think that you should use lures that arent so real looking, as it takes more skill to land with a spinner etc. But to anwser your fist Q there, no it wasnt a gulp. Some old school lure i found in my tackle box!

I'll send a pic of it to you.

[blue_mako]

oldskool?? haha that probably means it takes more skill to get anything on it! haha... yeh is it a prawnstar??? send us a pic...

troy

[Angus]

I dont consider it cheating. I consider it smart.

Maximising your chances of a fish

I like the challenge and all of landing a fish and more importantly landing a keeper, but i certainly dont mind improving those chances either.

By the way Troy, that Flatty you caught, its gut was filled with those herring we saw chopping. I know you caught it on a 3'' pumpkin seed minnow, but as they are getting the herring i reckon the 3'' pearly minnows would have to the go. Especially as you would also leave the dooe wide open for a trevally as well as thats what Mat caught the diamond on. (Not sure what he got the Blue fin trever on)?

[Ash]

Thats pretty much the way i see things. The only thing i personally try to do is buy mainly Aussie lures. However with some of the competition (like the gulps etc) I do cave in!:blush: I have had alot of success with some Berlely's, but not an amazingly amount more then others!I just find you have to search for Aussie lures abit harder, then of course see if you like them or not!:cheer:

[BIG DAVE 1]

cheers mate, i was never a lure person but yeha im just getting into hardbodies and im getting good results.

dave

[Ash]

Here you go Troy! Dont know the name or where it comes from. But it seems to do the trick. [img size=320]http://www.australianfishing.com.au/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/images/old_school_prawn_lure.jpg

Post edited by: Ash, at: 2006/05/10 15:17

[Angus]

Yeah i have only a very small experiance.

Basically i saw most fish get caught on Pumpkin seed.

Funnily enough i got my only two fish on a random plain brown colour 3'' minnow. And the gut of the flathead that tryor caught was full of herring. My poitn is i think that its more the movement that the SP's make than the color?

Angus

[Ash]

The movement and action are very important with lures. However colour does tend to play a big part to. Usually its best to use lures that imitate the local bait of the area. Now i say \"usually\" because sometimes fish dont play by the \"rules\" as such. Like when you catch dart on a made for bass lure! Stupid fish!:laugh:

[Angus]

Dart are Greedy bastards though!

One thing that interests me is why Flathead in particular are so intrigued by the very unnatural colors.

For example Pink Lemonade or Cartreuse minnow powerbaits?

Any insite anyone?

Angus.

[ando_04]

yeha i agrre with troy i find that using golp plastic is like cheat but them catch more fish the guess the advantage is that you can sue them as a lure oh even a bait jsut leave them on the bottem

[ando_04]

yeha i agrre with troy i find that using golp plastic is like cheat but them catch more fish the guess the advantage is that you can sue them as a lure oh even a bait jsut leave them on the bottem

[ando_04]

yeha i agrre with troy i find that using golp plastic is like cheat but them catch more fish the guess the advantage is that you can sue them as a lure oh even a bait jsut leave them on the bottem

[blue_mako]

wel maybe their vision is different..... :S.... if not that id have to say the action is what actracts them... or flathead are greedy and take anything... i know my barra in my tank likes the same lures flathead do :laugh: .... maybe its just the inexperience of lures and od looking things... or the fish is just having a taste becose fish can easily just spit it if it doesnt seem right...

cheers, troy

[Ash]

The thing is though, if you use them and just leave them on bottom, your not lure fishing. If you retrieve its the action/shape and colour that attracts the fish the most, haveing the smell just adds to the attraction.

And there's no real way to cheat when fishing (except with TNT). It all comes down to what you like to do. I find that unless im sitting in a chair with a beer in hand, bait fishing is boring. Even when i have bait on the hook i tend to cast and retrieve as if lureing.

A person who has good lure action and is exp will catch more with a standard lure then someone who doesnt and uses a scented SP.

[ando_04]

:evil:

[BIG DAVE 1]

yeah gulp is more a bait then a plastic. if u watch that berkely sp dvd it shows ADAM \"MAD DOG\" ROITER with a gulp and he hooks in onto a snelled rig just as u would bait and he clearly states \"these bio-degradable plastics are more a cast and leave bait rather thena cast and retreive plastic\" which is what he does and get's a nice snapper.

[ando_04]

i recken adam royta is shit at fishing lol donno why he got sponced by berkly haha

[blue_mako]

cose hes a wierdo maybe??? :P all types of things atract sponsorships...

troy

p.s. i stil stand by my decision that gulps arnt lures...... even the wierdo's think the same

[BIG DAVE 1]

i hate adam roiter so much he is the biggest dick and thinks his top shit....by the way did anyone see his results from the last season of afc i think he came dead last in all bream tornaments, on several occasions he failed to catch his bag. I think they should substiute him for ando, i think ando has caught more bream on sp's the Adam \"the loudmouth shit fisherman\" Roiter.

dave

[Ash]

Its only a bait if you use it as bait. If you use the way its meant to be used, its a lure.

[BIG DAVE 1]

i still think htta its a bait, u can cast and retrieve baits but this is a hard one we all have our own views.

[roobs]

has anyone checked to see if fish even see color?