Success on soft lures!?!

[Willie]

I go fishing a couple times a week, and im always tryin to find new tricks. I always find live or frozen bait work the best. Ive used soft lures a few times but they just havnt worked for me. I have way tomany of them and i should really use them more. What am i doing wrong, where and how do i use them? :blush:

[chris_stewart14]

There is a tonne of information on your exact question in old threads on this site bud.. Look up soft plastics under categories and spend a good amount of time reading.

Good luck

[davefishmad]

soft plastics usually involve a stiff flicky rod, braid and a leader with a jigg head and a plastic.

what fish are you targeting??

Is the main question...

some methods can target quite a few species this time of year

just name some fish that you targeting

I'm happy to fill you in on what I know of river/estuary.

dave

[Willie]

id like to get a decent jewie, ive tried round the GC canals but yeah as i said, i have no idea what im doing

[davefishmad]

Willie wrote:

id like to get a decent jewie, ive tried round the GC canals but yeah as i said, i have no idea what im doing

for jew flick placy minows and WORMS around rocky structure at out going tide ( after a bit of rain too).

thats a tip, not eveything, but a tip.

dave

[kiwifisho]

As Chris said mate look into the archives and you will learn plenty. All I can say mate is once u get the plastics down pat u will never have smelly hands again

Dean

[pinkey]

My only soft plastic Jew was on a 2inch gulp shrimp, 1/4 jighead went 52cm. On my baitcaster and 60lb leader targeting them though, they were not hooking up well on the bigger plastics so i downsized. Brisbane river would be the easiest local place to catch one, and even easier by boat.