Help with SP's & Lures

[Shnappahead]

After reading thru many threads with lots of extremely helpful information, I've compiled a list of lures & sp's that I would like to try out, as below.

Can anyone please help in the way of further recommendations or suggestions, especially with metal slugs & hardbody lures??....thanks guys!!!

70mm squidgy flick baits in the blue pillie colour (SP)
Gulp 5 inch jerk shads in nuclear chicken with jig heads 2/0 or
3/0 hook size 1/8 ounce (SP)
Gulp 3 inch minnows in various colours such as nuclear chicken and
smelt.(SP)
Gulp 4 inch Turtleback worm in Pumpkinseed (SP)
Gulp 5 inch jerkshads in glow in WPB (SP)
Powerbait 3 inch dropshot minnow in pearl blue (SP)
Powerbait 3 inch minnow, the 5 inch jerkshad and maybe some 70mm
squidgy wriggler or hot tails. (SP)
Powerbait 3 inch Realstix (SP)
Powerbait 3 inch minow in a darker colour then pumpkinseed (SP)
Lime Tiger and nuclear chicken in the 3 inch minnow on jig heads from 1/32 to 1/12th (SP)
Gulp 4 inch Minnows in Lime Tiger, Pumkinseed or hot pink, or Gulp
4 inch Swimming Mullet in Rootbeer Gold between 1/8 and 3/8, all
with 2/0 hooks (SP)
Killalure Pak Rat 45 in Tiger Orange (hardbody)

[plaztix]

Those are all popular big brand products which will all produce results when used in the right location.

Which ones you use when depends mainly on where you fish and what your chasing.

My favourite metals are gillies pilles, sliders and various halco profiles.

HB, again depends what your chasing, there are too many to just start rattling off specific types.

[Shnappahead]

Thanks plaztix....

Being fairly new to the fishing game, knowing what to use & what to chase are still quite unfamiliar to me.

It might pay to mention that I am a little limited to landbased fishing (canberra lakes & surrounds) although I do have access to a 6.5m boat with a 50hp evinrude...which while not able to be used every single weekend, trips to the south coast are definitely going to become more frequent!

I think im probably best sticking to bream, whiting, flatties & snapper at this stage in the early stages....but any suggestions, recomm's etc are very welcome as I would love to learn as much as I can from you guys!!

[Gagga08]

If your chasing bream you can't go past the Ecogear sx40 range. They are widely consider the best hb on bream and can catch any number of other species including trout, redfin, flathead, salmon and even smaller snapper. They are not cheap coming in at slightly under $20 but well worth it in my opinion. Go for the natural colours!

Hope that helps

Gagga

[Shnappahead]

That helps heaps Gagga....thank u!!

Forwarned is forearmed, so they say...and there are so many very talented fisho's on here, the suggestions I get from you all is arsenal for myself & any other newbies to fishing!

[fleety77]

good to see someones done some research, i would add to that list some 5 inch zoom superflukes and some assasins.........for the bay snapper

[Shnappahead]

Thanks fleety....I figure while Im not fishing, I may as well be learning about it!

Who are the assassins made by?

[plaztix]

For the species mentioned you wont need metals. Metals are mainly for your pelagic or surface feeding species like tuna, mackeral and tailor.

Snapper love big plastics and all the 5" varieties you mentioned will do the trick. i've recently started using vib's and crankbaits for snaps and they seem to be accounting for some good fish.

Flatties will take all most anything but big paddle tails are my favourite sp's and just about any deep diving HB in the 50 to 100mm range. flatties aren't picky.

I've caught most of my sp bream on squidgy flickbaits up to 75mm but the 2" gulp shrimps, 2" atomic guzzler prongs and squidgy lobbies are all worth a shot as well. There are literally thousands of good HB for bream but sx40's and jackall chubbies are very nice lures which account for a lot of bream but can be exy if you lose them.

Small blades, like tt's switchblades are very versatile lures as well which can be used in a variety of situations for all sorts of different fish. and are my new go to lure.

[Shnappahead]

Thanks again plaztix....u mentioned vib's and crankbaits....I've done a little reading on these but are there any specific ones you would suggest?

[Gagga08]

Shnappahead as far as the metal vibs go in my book two stand out from an ever growing crowd. TT switchblades and Ecogear VX35's are excellent. TT's are a little cheaper so they might be a good place to start.

[Shnappahead]

Cool....thanks Gagga.

So the Ecogear SX40F & CK40F are hardbody & the Ecogear VX35's are metals?

[plaztix]

Thanks again plaztix....u mentioned vib's and crankbaits....I've done a little reading on these but are there any specific ones you would suggest?

For snapper, jew threadies etc. Jackall mask vibes and transams are my favourites but there are lots of others. As gagga said for bream and smaller species the metal blades/vibes like tt's, ecogear and evergreens are the go.

I have seen some prototypes of mini soft crankbaits that berkley are developing, look forward to those when they come out.

[Shnappahead]

You mentioned the soft crankbaits which I did a lookup of & found this link

http://www.extremelures.com/index.as...ROD&ProdID=135

Thanks again all of you who are willing to take the time out to help a newbie...cheers fellas!...keep the advice coming!

[Gagga08]

Cool....thanks Gagga.

So the Ecogear SX40F & CK40F are hardbody & the Ecogear VX35's are metals?

Thats right mate..the sx40 and vx35 are both awesome lures....a must in any bream fishos collection.

Haven't had much experience with the ck40's. Ecogear do make another handy lure in the PX45...a prawn style surface lure...again good on bream but also great on whitting.

Check out MO Tackles range at http://www.########.com.au/index.cfm...ategory_id=147

[fleety77]

sorry mate bass assasins check out there range

http://www.bassassassin.com/

and

http://www.orderoutdoors.com/zoom.htm

got some great placcies i love all there 5-7 inch jerk shad type deals