15Sep2009
HollowBellys Rock On!
After their outstanding debut on the barra market last year, Hollow Bellys have now cemented their place in barra anglers' tackle boxes as they continue to catch outstanding fish, when other lures are struggling. I've recently returned from a week at Awoonga Dam, Gladstone where Hollow Bellys were again the gun lure. Rigged on Nitro Skeleton Jigs, these lures accounted for many metre plus fish.One slight difference from previous trips is that the 4 and 5" HollowBellys outfished the usually consistent 6" model. We dont know what to put this down to, but when one lure is working - you work it. Consequently the 5" (in Gizard Shad or Purple Tiger), rigged on a 3/8Oz #7/0 stayed on my main outfit all week.This outfit was one of Berkleys IM6 Cranksticks, the 6'3" 10 - 15kg model mated with a ABU Revo Inshore and spooled with 30lb Code Red Braid. This is a great barra outfit, it made thousands of casts and didn't miss a beat.The fishing varied during the week depending on water temps, the hot
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Kids Fishing
As some of you may know, I’m a school teacher and seeing kids learn a new skill and experience success is something that I enjoy and get a lot of satisfaction out of. Each week at school I’m told a handful of stories about weekend fishing trips, however most of them end in the words “but we didn’t catch anything”. Now I know fishing can still be fun and enjoyable even if you don’t catch a fish, but I guarantee it’s a lot more fun when you do!!! Recently I have been targeting the winter run of salmon that cruise up and down the Barwon River which is located on the western side of Geelong, in between the townships of Ocean Grove and Barwon Heads. Over a four week period in July and August I visited the Barwon River each weekend and had mixed results. Two of the trips turned out to be rippers where locating and catching plenty of salmon was seemingly easy and I drove away with memories of 20 fish in twenty casts on quite a few occasions throughout the day. The ot
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Get em now!
For regular readers of the blog page, it will be apparent that the MF series of baits is proving to be a smash success.Anglers who are prepared to persevere and allow the subtle action of the MF40 to do it's thing are raving about the catch rate.For those who fail to have success, keep trying, don't expect your rod tip to vibrate like conventional lipless baits and work on the subtle presentaions this bait allows. The rewards will follow.As per the previous blogs, Matt is close to finishing the next step in the MF evolution. The MF50 and 60. These baits will be bass candy as well as irresistable to many other species. New colours are coming on line as well so keep an eye out for these baits soon.The new Gulp colours are also filtering out to stores now and with most of the 2" and 3" shrimp colours now avialable as well as minnows, fry and minnow grubs in stock, anglers now have some serious colour choices in these ever popular shapes.The Punk and Disco prawns are working particularly w
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