Plastics for Snapper???

[tenzing]

7" nuclear chooks, lime tiger, Pearly white good too(Whiting size/colour)

[Nic]

I'm very keep th give the new atomic guzzlerz and Stimular Slam baits are crack.

I'm keen to try the Guzzlerz too... at least to see if they live up to all the hype! Hopefully they will have hit the stores by the start of September.

Aside from that I'm a Snapback fan, as they're virtually indestructible. The 5" jerkshads in Electric Chicken have caught plenty of snapper and pearlies for us. If your local store doesn't stock them I think you can get them at sites like www.lureworld.com.au and the Mo Tackle website.

These lures work well on jigheads but we often fish them on paternosters, too. If you don't expect to get into massive fish, and if the action is a bit slow, you might want to try a 2-hook paternoster with a plastic on one hook and bait on the other (unless you're using Gulps, which are basically bait!) We have found that on a bait/plastic rig the fish most often hit the plastic... we're guessing that the smell draws them in and then they're attracted to the lifelike appearance of the jerkshad.

LOL I like all the ##############s TailorBoi! Perhaps you mean www.pure_fishing.com.au without the '_'?

[Nic]

I'll put in another vote for the 7" Gulp jerkshads too, although I haven't been able to pin down any particular colour as working better than the others. They're all good I reckon.

[Blackened]

G'day

Yes the 5 and 7 inch jerkshads are good with the gulps, but lately and what has accounted for my PB is..

The ZOOM super fluke in 4'', baby bass color (like the old gulp watermelon)

Cheaper, better formed and tougher than the gulps by a long shot

Dave

[Poodroo]

The size will vary according to the depth of water you are fishing in. Example a 7" Nuclear Chicken I would find useless in depths of around 6-8 metres largely because a 7" bait is best with a larger jighead and hook which means you will mostly get snagged particularly if you drift. In 8 metres I use a 1/16 jighead with a 3.0 hook size which is best for a 4" minnow gulp plastic. When fishing in 60 metres I use a 5-7" plastic on a 1oz jighead and always cast ahead of the drift which allows the bait to reach the bottom. If snapper are hungry they will hit on anything but I have had most success with the nuclear chicken so far with my PB being 74cms caught near Mud Island on a 4" nuclear chicken. If you fish with a large plastic or any for that matter you need to have a hook size that will exit the plastic approximately half way down the back. This will ensure that the bait will present better and also when snapper hit it is normally always from the tail end so your strike rate will be higher if the hook is located further down towards the tail. I have seen many fishermen use a 7" gulp on a 1/16 jighead and a 2.0 or 3.0 hook which only reachs to just behind the head of the SP and they continually get good bites but miss the fish and constantly lose the tail off the plastic. The fish simply kept missing the hook. I hope this info is helpful.

Cheers,

Poodroo

[MeePee_99]

5 and 7" jerkshads in any of the chook colours (although i like the nuc chook and the curry chicken!!!!!)

[slyman]

Yeah I use 5 inch jerkshads mainly, most colours have caught fish, but the better ones would be nuke chook, lime tiger, blue pepper neon, watermelon neon, camo, sardine, bonejack, arkansas shiner, smelt, and the pumpkinseed. I haven't tried any of their new chook colours yet.

This covers the bright colours to use at dusk and dawn as well as the natural colours for during the middle of the day, however, you could also try the bright colours during overcast days. Just keep trying to see what they will bite, it wont always be what you think it will be.

As well as the jerkshads, I've caught them on other berkleys such as the craw, minnows, turtleback worms, fry, shrimp, peeler crabs, gobys and sand eels. Have a look at the freshwater stuff in the red packs as well as the saltwater stuff in the blue packs. Have a look at some of the powerbait stuff too, minnows and jerkshads.

Other plastics that have worked for me are zoom flukes, atomic prongs, assassins and gamblers.