hi guys and girls i was just wanting to know what your favourite mac-tuna fly pattern is 8-)
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hi guys and girls i was just wanting to know what your favourite mac-tuna fly pattern is 8-)
Jimbo
its hard to go past a surf candy ;). Ideally a variety of sizes, and amounts of flash. Olive over white would probably be the most popular colour combo, but most subdued colours have their days. The name of the game is to match the bait and it get the fly in FRONT of a feeding fish- mac's can get very picky. Yet on other days they'll eat anything. Clousers, deceivers, polarfibre minnows and gummy minnows are also popular- Candies are my fvaourite. Gamakatsu sl12s is by far and away the most popular hook.
Does that help? If you want I'll send you some which have worked for me. which area are you fishing?
Voltz
I've had luck on size 1/0 chartreuse surf candys stripped medium fast and size 3/0 clousers with a 3-4 inch tail in dark blue with crystal flas, and very heavy dumbells - trolled behind the boat through a school of feeding fish - normally on floating lines or at least on the surface, then also coming up to a reef as we saw the fish on the finder (candy's again) but this time on lead core line just fed overboard.
No burley used before
Surf candies get the thumbs up from me also - easy to tie and last for ages.
voltzy,
that would be greatly appreciated mate, :D as i am interested to see other anglers different little variations to the pattern.
i am also just starting out to tie my own flies being only a young fella (16) i am limited in the information i can receive from other (oh hees only young so i wont tell him much) anglers.
oh and its the hervey bay fraser coast area ;D
cheers jim
not sayin that all anglers are like that,
the guys on this site along with some fellas i talk to regularly are great
just some guys u meet whilst fishing can be real a#$holes
cheers boys for the responses and letting me know what u guys think ;D