switch blades question??

[geoff72]

my question is how do you use these switchblade lures, what retrieve do you use? I want to try them for bream, trevs and have been told they are really good for jew but i have no idea on how to work them. Any help would be great.

Cheers
Geoff

[themissus]

Hey Geoff,
We slow them or you can jig them. The bass love them too
Cheers Kim.

[JT]

Fish them like a SP. Cast out, let them sink to the bottom, slow raise of the rod tip (you can feel the blade vibrate through the line), let it sink back down, pause as a lot of the time the fish will pick them off the bottom and then repeat back to the boat. You can also just wind them slowly back with little twitches thrown in.

Hope that helps.

Cheers

John

[35kg jew]

hey mate ,
great move they are a great option for jew the work extremly well!!! On one day we were throwing every plastic we could find down at iluka and thought lets try one these things.. Well wat can say the day turned out amazing wit a few jew and a good mixed bag.. Experiment wit different retrieves, we found on the jew one short lift of rod (make sure u feel the vibration tru your rod).. Normally they hit it on the drop or when its not moving.. Keep trying there definately amazing wit wat they catch!!!!!!!!!!! good luk

[marty+jojo]

hey mate ,
great move they are a great option for jew the work extremly well!!! On one day we were throwing every plastic we could find down at iluka and thought lets try one these things.. Well wat can say the day turned out amazing wit a few jew and a good mixed bag.. Experiment wit different retrieves, we found on the jew one short lift of rod (make sure u feel the vibration tru your rod).. Normally they hit it on the drop or when its not moving.. Keep trying there definately amazing wit wat they catch!!!!!!!!!!! good luk

Hey,
How do the tiny little trebles hold up on the Jewies?
My mate got a small Jack at Mooloolaba on one and we both commented, lucky it was not much bigger or the hooks may have straightened.
Marty.

[RAT-KING]

Love the switchies i always let them sink to the bottom they often get taken on the drop! always a slow retrieve with lots of jigs!
Cheers Simon

[mattooty]

The little trebles are usually what makes them so exxy. They're very sticky and hook into anything. Haven't had one open up yet on jew to 11kg.

[geoff72]

Thanks very much for all the help fellas and ladies, will definatly be going out this week to get some for sure now, will take all the advice on board and see if i score a good fish on one.
cheers
Geoff

[jareyjareyjareyjarey]

vertical jigging works well in deep water also.

[Apollo]

What colours and models seem to work best for bream and bass?

Thanks

[themissus]

We have some from the US. I'll get the boss to post some pics. The bass like the yellow and green one. Not sure about the salt, haven't fished salt for a while.
Cheers Kim.

[Roo]

These are Reefrunner Cicadas when I got them from the US(with a few jerkbaits too) the prices were lower and our dollar much, much higher. the freight was a bit nasty tho' so wouldn't be worth it now. they work well but the bronze doubles rust in the breeze!! so i've started to put trebles on them.
There are lots of different types out there.

Cheers Roo.

P.s. the pic is the 3/8th oz size, same as the link.

[dnej]

Thought this write up might help
David

Using Switchblade Lures

The BIG NEWS in fishing is undoubtedly

SWITCHBLADES.

Since winning quite a few big bream tournaments recently their
popularity has become meteoric.
However, now that they have been used in a lot of different
situations, the BIG NEWS is how versatile they are proving to
be.
So far they have consistently accounted for bream, snapper,
trevally, bass, flathead, whiting, jewfish and blackfish. Yes I did say BLACKFISH and by consistently I mean
we have had verified reports of all these species being caught in numbers.
Never before have I heard of any hard lure consistently accounting for blackfish and the only type of hard
lure to do so with whiting has been the recent small surface poppers. So to say that these blade lures have
already broken new ground is not an exaggeration.
Undoubtedly there will be much more to come but at the moment these lures open up a whole new range of
possibilities.
To get you past the ordinary appearance of these blades maybe I can point out a number of advantages
which may start to justify why they are so SUCCESSFUL.
Firstly, due to their small profile and relatively heavy weight you can cast them a LONG WAY. This enables
us to greatly reduce the likelihood of spooking fish.
Secondly, because of this weight, they sink quite easily in almost any current and can therefore be used at
any depth and alongside any structure like rockwalls or bridge pylons, etc. The variable tow points on these
lures also allows the right action for the lure in varying depths and currents.
Thirdly, the extremely tight vibration of these lures is VERY UNIQUE and obviously very appealing to the
fish. Couple this with the highly reflective metallic finishes of them and maybe you can start to see why they
attract so much ATTENTION.
Fourthly, this tight vibration is generated at both fast and slow speeds.
Combine all these factors and you can imagine that as we continue to experiment, we may be looking at one
of the most versatile and successful lures of all time.

EXCITED YET?

The other great advantage is that unlike soft plastics where we have had to be very creative with what action
we give the lure in order to generate a strike, blades come with basically their own action therefore making
them a deadly fish catcher in ALMOST anyone’s hands.
You can now see why just about every fisherman in the major bream competitions have now got many blade
lures in their arsenal.
Of course there are an infinite amount of situations and ways to use them, but I thought it might be helpful to
specify what is achieved and where by using the various tow points.
Clipping onto the

front tow point will sit the lure virtually horizontally in the water column and therefore
reduce the resistance as you retrieve it. Therefore if you were trying to dart the lure with a fast, jerky action
over the shallow weed beds for blackfish you would tend to use this. Also if you were jigging the lure up and
down off the bottom quite quickly as you drifted along for flathead this would be good also.
As you wanted to slow your action down and yet still generate plenty of action from the lure then you would
use the middle or maybe even the rear tow point as this will tend to tip the lure head down and make it dig
through the water more. This would be particularly useful when working the lure along a breakwall or bridge
pylons for bream or jewfish. To let the lure pause on the bottom before slowing lifting and settling again in
this situation is enough to generate a hit from a cagey bream at times.
Alternatively, almost letting it “hang” by way of a very slow retrieve in a fast current alongside such structures
is normally best achieved by attaching to the rear tow point.
Now get out there and start experimenting before your mate beats you to it!

Tight Lines!

[the gecko]

Anybody had any success with them at night? I gave em a go for a week, got no hits and then lost em on snags. Mighta been a dud spot? Which colors for nightime work best? cheers Andrew

[ffejsmada]

I think it would be the vibration that attracts fish at night, not colours.

But in saying that, it's generally accepted that dark coloured lures work better at night.