Plastics

[pommy]

Greetings all!

Having spent the last 40 odd years as a confirmed bait fisherman I'm just about coming round to the idea of fishing with soft plastics.

I have a 6'8'' 3-5kg Rack Raider and an Okuma Epix EF 20 spooled with 4lb/6lb Fireline that I've been using to fish small unweighted baits. (I also have a 14ft tinny and a 7 footer for creeping about in shallow or narrow water.)

With an initial outlay limited to 50 or 60 bucks what basic gear would I need to buy to fish for flatties and bream in the Richmond river?

If possible can you be fairly specific i.e. 1/4 oz size 2 jig-heads or 2'' pumpkinseed grubs etc.

Best regards, Rob.
Ballina

[pommy]

Well!
What a response!

[tunaticer]

Okies Rob, 50-60 bucks lets see you need some flourocarbon leader material around 10lb or so. I presume you will be fishing in water less than say 4m mostly so I would opt for both 1/8 and 1/4 oz TTlures 3/0 jigheads. I would then be looking for a packet of gulp 4" or 5" jerkshads in nuclear chicken.
I would also be looking for a packet of 3 or 4" paddle tail shads in a black and white colour (atomic real shads are perfect)

Thats ur 50 bucks gone mate and those softs will produce the goods no troubles.

Jack.

[pommy]

G'day!

Many thanks for that!

It's given me a starting point and something to build on when Christmas arrives. My 2 and 4 year old daughters will no doubt live to buy daddy some rubber fishies and worms.

I have a packet of Tsunami 3'' redfish shads with internal weight and a few Kokoda shads with an underslung treble. Can these be fished in a similar way?

Thanks again, Rob.
Ballina

[alleycat]

Pommy i use 3 inch berkley minnows in smelt scales colour for bream on a tt 1/8th oz head in no 2 hook, this will also catch flathead, but for targetting flathead i would go to berkley bream pro 1/4 oz head in 1/0 hook and use atomic 3 inch minnows as they are more chunky, if you want to try the snapper use the 3 inch atomics on a berkley salt water pro 1/0 hook and whatever weight suits, if your fishing deep water just put plastic on dropper rig and jig it when its on the bottom.

[Marlin_Mike]

Dont do it.................................... stay with stinky bait :)