Soft Plastics Fishing for bread and butter species
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Were back on the Hobie Kayak for the Australia Gone Fishing Day 2022 on Sunday 9th October 22. This time were chasing bread and butter fish species with soft plastics. In this episode we catch flathead, snook and pinkie snapper. All caught using berkley gulp crabby, turtleback worms and keitech easy shiners.
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You have my deepest symphonies Allan. Having to go out in these woeful conditions to make your You Tube videos. I am a subscriber here and a member of Fishing Mad. You certainly earn your money, mate. 👍
Thank you Galty !! As much as I love fishing It can be quite punishing at times trying to have content ready every single week. Especially during winter and early spring when the fishing shuts down a bit and the cond are freezing cold. I really appreciate the ongoing support !!
Not even that cold in my freezer, hi from Darwin, picking off flatties up here on the savage gear 2.5 inch flick baits & 1/0 HWS, lucky to see them bigger than 50cm up here.
Yeah the fishing up that way is amazing.
Loved the Video Alan. Hope you got out and had a fish on the long weekend.
Thanks Jared, hardly got out over the long weekend as the weather was terrible, i will be making up for it this week and have lot of fishing trips booked in to really get onto the snapper
great flattie for start of a session. cheers
100% thanks
Great video Looks like your reel has seen a lot of use. I love your videos they are so cool and entertaining
Thanks 👍 Yeah The vanford 1000 has been used heaps the last 6 months, its a lot of fun catching on a reel so light and it has an epic drag sound
These motorised kayaks seem a great way to avoid registration and regulations. Well done. Even my little tender needs to be registered with all the gear if its used away from the boat.
Wonder how long this will last for?
hey Alan, love your videos - just wondering why dropping your leader weight/size would increase the chance of a catch?
Cheers,
Will
Fish can be really finicky, ive had many years chasing species like bream on soft plastics. On those quiet days when the bite isnt happening dropping leader size helps to build the fishes confidence and increase catche rates. Ive also noticed over many years that I will always catch more fish the lighter I go.
Hello Alan, that is a good flathead. I do a bit of land based fishing around Geelong and I often see quite large, what I believe are Morwong just chilling in ~50cm of water. From what I can find they are weed eater and quite hard to catch with a lure. I wanted to ask have you ever caught these on soft plastics?
Hi , I am not Alan but can assure you that Mormong will take plastics. I have caught several over the past years at Portarlington harbor. My go to plastic is Berkeley turtle back worms in pumpkin seed and 1/8 jig head. Like you have observed, I have also seen morwong congregate in numbers in the shallows. I must say though after eating a few I would not recommend them. Catch and release is the way I treat this species now. Happy fishing.
@@frednurks8528 Cheers, I do have some turtleback worms in my arsenal, I'll run them past next time I see em.
Yep 100% it will be morwong, you get some huge ones in the shallows luderick aswell in that area. They are tricky to catch on plastics but i have had some success with 4 inch turtleback worms and slim swimz lathered in s-factor lightly weighted worked really slowly. They are tricky to catch but epic when you land one as they fight well and are good sizes. I hope that helps.
Excellent response Fred !! Thanks
Loved the video Allan
Thank you !!
Where I fish in westernport the currents are strong so finding hard to keep soft plastics on bottom, even with 3/8th oz(9gram) jig head.
Thats 100% right, what you need to do is fish during slack tide with plastics or pick areas that have less current. Mid tide forget it as the current is so strong and resort back to 10 ounce sinkers
Hey Alan could you give me some tips for snapper and bream for the gamer school. I use the grubs and I can never seem to catch bream or snapper.
Have to fish very light. 1-0 jig heads usually around 1/20 and 4-6 lb leader. I find that makes a big difference
@@fishingmad thanks
Next week will be good mate
Hope so
Melbourne Cup day was another banger 🤣
Yeah the weather has been killer lately.
Great video!! Is that a Commander Ocelot?
Its the snowfinch, very versatile. Shorter length which is great on the yak and 2-4 kg so can target so many different species
@@fishingmad thx for the reply. How do you find the Millerods Twitchfreak for plastics? (I have the twitch freak and a commander longbolt)