Round 1 AFC Ch10 1300hrs

[NAGG]

Particularly impressed with the Chartreuse tails.

See Daryl ..... you even had the pro's onto it ........ incl the Taylors

[Whitto]

See Daryl ..... you even had the pro's onto it ........ incl the Taylors

Wow!........Daggles will be forever known as the "Chartreuse Tail Trend Setter"

[Whitto]

See Daryl ..... you even had the pro's onto it ........ incl the Taylors

Wow!........Daggles will be forever known as the "Chartreuse Tail Trend Setter".......thats alot better than "The Predatec Pair"

[Whitto]

OOOOOpppppssss! I stuttered.......my bad

[robersl]

Well i missed it due to driving back from Sydney did any one happen to copy it

shane

[Bear001]

you can usually watch the repeat on digital free to air - channel one - the following Saturday.

[leelee]

Did anyone happen to notice the colour of "THAT" particular lure that was retreived from the top of a tree

Cheers

Lee

[BR65]

you lot have a problem....lmao....has anyone told ya's that......tee hee

Anyhow....cant let a little thing like....5 days of relentless rain over xmas hols hold you back.....
Guilty as charged, besides, thats why they invented rain coats isnt it

[Whitto]

Did anyone happen to notice the colour of "THAT" particular lure that was retreived from the top of a tree

Cheers

Lee

Yes it was one of those new Koala Slick Rigs....(Boiled as well)

[Peter4]

Not a hard bod to be seen, matter of fact Im pretty sure the only placs I saw were Storm and Squidgey?

Good observation Brian.....the only hardbody seen so far was an Xrap that Karl Rembacher used at Awoonga. He is the only one in the AFC not to land a barra!

During the ABT at Mondy Kyle fished hardbodies 95% of the time for one small barra and 4 dropped fish. The winners (Taylors and Jocubson) got all of their fish on plastics....my only hook up was on a 110 Evil Minnow

Is Monduran now much more of a plastics destination than a hardbody fishery?

We will give it a good test in February!

Regs

Pete & Kyle

[A_DIFF_PERSPECTIVE]

Pete,
Just ask all the succesful HB trollers if Monduran is a plastics dam!!??
Some winners in this years ABT rounds employed HB lures along side their soft lures to score a victory.
Many anglers lean towards soft lures because they are simple lures with almost effortless retrieve patterns- employed in many situations. A hard lure can still catch tonnes of fish- if used correctly.
Soft lures versus hard lures is still a 50/50 game, but hey, you will still catch barra if you only use one of the two, or vice versa,,,,,,,,,,,,but on the day when you throw a continued moving soft plastic, eg, the morning round of AFC Monduran, just maybe the answer to success was a stop start hard rather than persevering with a soft lure. I saw enough info on the segment to see reasons for why a hard lure may have been a good choice at the time and given the daring angler the edge.
Cheers
Johnny
Two other points of interest-
* the lure that the Taylors retrieved from the tree tops. The particular hand tuning of that lure- their time spent and the value of that particular one was enough to value it way more than the simple $1 comment made by the commentator. In the eyes of the beholder, Cy and Kerrin, that lure may have been labelled a "comp winner, or a "key to victory". To replace such a lure isn't as simple as opening a new packet- far from it. Well tuned lures don't come from packets.
*3 or 4 snagged rods laying side by side was insight into how close lures are fished to the bottom or pinpointed structure. Going to extremes and using another rod whilst the others lay neatly on deck and continuing fishing in that spot allowed them the capture of a larger fish that kept them unbeaten/ tied at the end of the competition. Sure, they got a mean tangle, but they got a fish that outweighed any negativity of the situation. If they had of shifted, they would have spooked the fish.
Simple things add up at the end of the day to give an angler advantage.

[Peter4]

Sorry JM, I meant cast and retrieve only.....does anyone troll plastics?

Pete

[leelee]

Yes it was one of those new Koala Slick Rigs....(Boiled as well)

Yes its the DROP BEAR mk II

Cheers

Lee

[leelee]

* the lure that the Taylors retrieved from the tree tops. The particular hand tuning of that lure- their time spent and the value of that particular one was enough to value it way more than the simple $1 comment made by the commentator. In the eyes of the beholder, Cy and Kerrin, that lure may have been labelled a "comp winner, or a "key to victory". To replace such a lure isn't as simple as opening a new packet- far from it. Well tuned lures don't come from packets.

Thanks JM for the input.

I to beleive the reason it was retreived was because what had "BEEN" done to the lure after it was pulled from the packet, plus the mental value of that lure could prove way to costly to leave in a tree.

Cheers

Lee

[NAGG]

Good observation Brian.....the only hardbody seen so far was an Xrap that Karl Rembacher used at Awoonga. He is the only one in the AFC not to land a barra!

During the ABT at Mondy Kyle fished hardbodies 95% of the time for one small barra and 4 dropped fish. The winners (Taylors and Jocubson) got all of their fish on plastics....my only hook up was on a 110 Evil Minnow

Is Monduran now much more of a plastics destination than a hardbody fishery?

We will give it a good test in February!

Regs

Pete & Kyle

Scotty used a X Rap at Awoonga ...... from memory

Now there you go ....... My 4 fish landed during the Mondy ABT were on X Rap XR12s (Olive) ........

Keep an open mind -

For both the Awoonga & Mondy round I fished plastics & X raps side by side - Interestingly .... I would fish a slick rig .... get hit & switch to an X Rap .... and hook/land fish - - As the water was shallow & the lures tuned to suspend ..... being able to pause the lure was the key (IMO)


Chris