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Midnight Oil colour claims another victim. The Z- Man 2.5” GrubZ is one of the easiest lures to sh.
You can often go from a quiet session to half a dozen fish in no time once targeting an area holding bait.
Find the run
10 tips for using soft plastics
* from P20
head, whiting, flounder, tailor, trevally and more as they actively hunt food such as prawns, squid and baitfish. Deep water
all it takes to hold bait and attract predators. Find the bait
The locations with this current and the re- sulting eddies created can assist predators with hunting and am- bushing bait and can often be productive.
Many anglers prefer to fish deeper water in winter due to the water being so clear and the current often reduced due to smaller tidal dif- ferences.
On multiple occasions over the past month I have been fishless for a period before locating the bait and turning it into a fish per cast ses- sion.
On the flipside, if there is no current, fo- cus on structure and es- pecially structure hold- ing bait, such as rubble, weed and drop-offs.
There is the added at- traction of larger snap- per entering the system (don’t forget the cur- rent closed season), along with schools of tailor and big bream in spawning mode.
Keep an ear and an eye out for prawns or baitfish flicking or dis- turbing the surface and focus your casts around the edges of this bait.
This key structure can still be productive without current, how- ever you may need to slow your retrieves to get the bite.
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Remember to check your local regulations regarding closures, along with size, bag and possession limits.
No run, no fun is the saying and when deal- ing with the lack of run that is common in winter, I have two tech- niques I will employ.
With the variety of species around dur- ing winter and a lot of smaller bait in the sys- tem, I tend to downsize my presentations, with the Z-Man 2.5” GrubZ and Slim SwimZ our go-to plastics, teamed with a size 1 or 1/0 TT Lures jig head.
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Ron with a cracker 35cm whiting that inhaled a Z-Man 2.5” Slim SwimZ in
Midnight Oil colour.
Structure is often the key when targeting fish in deeper water, so keep an eye out on the sounder for rock and reef, wrecks, ledges, bait and fish.
Try to locate areas where current is cre- ated, such as channels narrowing, points jut- ting into the channel and manmade or natu- ral structure creating current breaks.
These plastics are our go-to for bream and flathead, while also ac- counting for jewfish,
Patches as small as your kayak or boat are
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