lure for straddie

[tackle world rox]

last year at straddie my old man saw a big school of fish jumping so he casted out a metal slug and he got it to the jetty and it bit him off. Does anyody know what type of fish it could of been and what type of lure or soft plastic i could use to catch one.

[plaztix]

Probably mac tuna.

As your old man did, cast metal slugs.

Or plastics wise, you would be best targetting them with 4 of 5' shad profiles like bass assassins or snapbacks in silver, white or more natural looking colours. Use a jig head with the eye at the front of the weight.

Good luck, you would be lucky to be there on the day that they are within casting range but it does happen.

[ON-THE-CHEW]

Im guessing you mean the Amity jetty, some times if you are lucky the schools will swim close enough too the jetty, but I have seen a lot more fish swim with in casting distance of the rock wall all up the side of amity as it is quiet deep right up too the base of the rocks.

Depending on the size of the fish it could of been number of things, Long Tail tuna, Mackeral, or Mac tuna. Usually for fish to clear the water it is a longtail or a larger mack tuna, but you would have to be very unlucky for one of these to bite you off especially when using a metal slug. If it bit you off it would most like have been one of the mackeral species.

For targeting mackeral or mack tuna with plastics we have found, a 3 to 5 inch shad, in rainbow, silver or white colours seem to work the best. One of the best colours we have found for any tunas or other pelagics is the rainbow shad in the Zoom plastics range.

Depending on how they are feeding, we find alot of the time a cast as close to the school and then wind as fast as you possably can gets the most attention. Remember when casting from the heights of a jetty, on the retrieve get your rod tip down as low as possible so the plastic doesn't skim along the top of the water.

On other occasions it might pay off just to let it sink for a couple of seconds once it hits the water, give it a twitch or two then wind. Some times you even get more attention doing a stop start retrieve depending on what sort of mood they are in.

If its mackeral as fast as you can wind is never fast enough. If you use a jighead with as long a shanked hook as you can will help with bite offs. If you are still having problems use a footlong peice of 60lgb fluro carbon tied on the end of your leader and this should help out with the bite offs.

I hope this has been of some help, good luck on the straddie trip.

Andrew