Plastics ?

[beats]

Whats your favorite plastics ?
The good old bass minnow is my go to fish puller:icy:

[leelee]

Mine is the gulp 2inch grub, modded 3inch craw for Hawkesbury, Sandworms and grubs for harbour and fall back lures are hawgs.

Cheers

Lee

[mark-fisho1]

ya greg they would be my 2nd favorite im still a big hawg follower depending on situation either 1 2 or 3 inch but if things r tuff ill use grubs

lee no gulps this is an anti gulp post hahahahahaahha
otherwise i would have said mullet strips:) oops gulp mullet strips

[leelee]

Also a secret of mine is to soak the watermelon and smoke hawgs in some purple yum the night before, just enough to cover about 5mm in the bottom of the packet. They turn a nice purple colour and are better than the junbug colour and smell heaps better :smiile:

Cheers

Lee

[Ace]

hawgs,hawgs & more hawgs followed by the humble bass minnow

[Pukka]

Must admit, plastics don't 'turn me on' at the moment, been having too much fun with HB's. :) But having said that, I still use plackys a lot around boats and structure, usually with a mix of Ecogear Bug Ants, Pad Tues, Gulp worms or minnow grubs, depending on whether I'm fishing Marinas, boats, natural stuff, or whether I'm in clear water or dirty.

[sydfish]

Hawgs bass minnows, grubs, gulps, sandworms who cares as long as it has berkley on the packet.
All will out do the others on any given day. :gutsy:

Fish eat em.

Hardbodies, you cant go past the Lake police range, they have it all covered. Chubby's deep and shallow, fry's floaters and suspenders and the smaller squirrels. You can always go back to a SX when you have lost all your chubby's:tongue:

[riff raff]

the aussie living bait series of plastics have caught the most fish for me:biggrin:

[slim]

2"hawgs in watermelon
eyeball tails in pumpkin
2"gulp shrimps
3"gulp minnows pumpkinseed

[FrgdEd]

I also swear by the Berkley range.

3" power minnows are my fave.
Brown Pseed, Green Wmelon, Blue pearl, Smelt all work well.
2" grubs in clear patterns are ok too.

I recently went to a large Tackle store in Taren Point. Wanted to buy some Hawg's. After some searching i finally asked. I was told that Berkely have discontinued them and that they were no longer available.
Is this true? Anyone else heard this?

I believe their are some "shimano" branded Hawg's on the market. Anyone tried these?

Ed

[sydfish]

Yep they pulled them of the market earlier this year.
The reason being that worldwide they were not selling well enoiugh, combined with the banning of non biodegradable plastics in some countries.
A couple of shops still have a few left although the colour range is starting to dwindle.
shimano has imported some look alikes with lots of japanese writnig in then. They do look fairly similar.

[beats]

Yes Ed thats the case, there are a few still around though.
Haven't used the Shimano ones but mates say they go alright.

[imnotafish]

The Shimano plastics are called Koebi Chans, which means something like shrimp according to a japanese mate. They're obviously japanese ,you cant even read the packaging??! They look pretty schmick though, saw some samples that shimano have just got hold of..... quite a few colours. a green pumpkinseed type, clear green/blue fleck, red and a few others. they look heaps more australian than the hawgs, with a thin 1.5 - 2 inch body and thin wings as well as feelers. closer to the bulkies than the one inch hawgs.
they'll be on the market in about a month i think

[beats]

Otto,s have some atmo. $9.95 a pack.

[mark-fisho1]

i have some just arrived ill try them out give u my thoughts

[beats]

4 new bass minnow colours to play with on the market now & starting to filter into shops with recent orders, look preety cool.

[leelee]

You got any of them yet greg?

If so show me them on sunday.

Cheers

Lee

[beats]

I'll have some on sunday mate.:smiile:

[leelee]

Hmmm should be good as I have spoken to some people who hate the look of them but its the fish that have to like it not the angler.

Should be good to see them.

Cheers

Lee

[drenno]

will they go alright in discoloured water or only when the waters clear

[leelee]

will they go alright in discoloured water or only when the waters clear

Drenno,

Personally I use lighter coulours like watermelon in clear water and dark colours such as pumpkinseed in dirtier water. Its all about the profile that the fish see's not always the colour. Look at the atomic chicken colour in the gulp prawns:eeek: and it is fast becoming a go to lure of choice for some anglers.

Cheers

Lee

[beats]

I remember 2 years ago the G/C ABT was won on gulp chart/white by T.M & that spun me out a little, then I hear atomic chicken wins this years clarence rv round an I'm thinking :whattha: ?

[jaja]

I used some ecoproducts cleo nexts on the week end prety cool plastics. lots of dangly bits

[leelee]

I used some ecoproducts cleo nexts on the week end prety cool plastics. lots of dangly bits

Where did you get these from jaja and do you have any pics to show or a link?

Cheers

Lee

[Ace]

I used some ecoproducts cleo nexts on the week end prety cool plastics. lots of dangly bits

how did they go?????

[jaja]

I got heaps of pics & links but sydfish told me I cant put them on here any more or im out

[leelee]

I got heaps of pics & links but sydfish told me I cant put them on here any more or im out

Just pm me the links and i will put them up for you then :smiile:

Cheers

lee

[jaja]

how did they go?????

they go sink puf puf, siiinnnkk, puff puff, wind in.

[leelee]

they go sink puf puf, siiinnnkk, puff puff, wind in.

Haaaaaahaaaaaaa :smiile: :smiile: :smiile:

Cheers

Lee

[leelee]

they go sink puf puf, siiinnnkk, puff puff, wind in.

I thought they went more of sink sink sink sink, puff poof puff, wind in, ahh crap leatherjackets eaten half of it lol

Cheers

Lee

[jaja]

whats that you cant say that are you having a go atme

[jaja]

i copied that am sending to adminstata

[beats]

:whattha: :whattha: :whattha: :whattha: lee said it before GO HOME Jaja.

[leelee]

whats that you cant say that are you having a go atme

nah mate not having a go at you at all.

There is a difference between a lure going puff and a lure going poof throught the water!

Cheers

Lee

[beats]

He's gone lee.:rolleyes:

[leelee]

He's gone lee.:rolleyes:

Nah let him stay beats cause i think he is not the real jaja anyways. I have a mate who actually knows the real jaja, so i will get some info back to see if he is the real deal.

Cheers Lee

[beats]

no i meant he's loged out

[drenno]

i heard that berkley have brought out 9 new lures anyone no anything about it????????????

[beats]

There is a few mate, don't know if they are here or in stores yet, here's a sneek peek at some..


1 sabretail worm
2 sabretail grub
3 sabretail bug
4 bat wing frog
5 sinking minnow
6 power shaky worm
7 sweet beaver
8 punch craw
9 pre rigged shrimp

[drenno]

they look awesome cant wait to use them,dont like the frog one much but i'll give it a go cause i'll give anything a go even caught a flattie on a allens lollie snake once.