Soft Plastics

[rjc123]

Hi all,

Im off to noosa in a couple of days and am planning on doing some sp fishing. I bought some 4 inch Berkley Gulp Minnows Yesterday and also Have 2 inch squidgy wrigglers and 2 inch squidgy fish. I will basically flick them around while the bait rod is in the water. Is 4 inch too big for flatties? There are some absolute giants up there. I havent had a trip up ther without a fish over 70cm with the biggest being 97cm caught on whitebait. The wrigglers are for the bream and whiting if they want to play. Will a jewie take a 4 inch or is that too small???

[Anti-Carp]

Hi all,

Im off to noosa in a couple of days and am planning on doing some sp fishing. I bought some 4 inch Berkley Gulp Minnows Yesterday and also Have 2 inch squidgy wrigglers and 2 inch squidgy fish. I will basically flick them around while the bait rod is in the water. Is 4 inch too big for flatties? There are some absolute giants up there. I havent had a trip up ther without a fish over 70cm with the biggest being 97cm caught on whitebait. The wrigglers are for the bream and whiting if they want to play. Will a jewie take a 4 inch or is that too small???

You should be fine, 4 inch is fine for flatties. With jewies i've got them on every thing from a 2 inch gulp shrimps up.

[fran1mat]

Hi mate,

I posted this a few weeks ago.

http://www.fishraider.com.au/Invision/index.php?showtopic=50724

I fished the Maroochy River on a charter and the skipper swears by the 3 inch Berkly Gulp Minnow in smelt colour for that area. The fish loved them, We caught trevally, bream, flatties, and cod (one only) all day.

Have a good time.

Matt

[rjc123]

Well i'm leaving at the crack of dawn on sunday and have sport duties tomorrow so i probably won't get the chance to get the 3 inch minnows but anyway. I'm not very experienced with sp so it shouldn't make a difference. At the mouth of the river would you think low tide or high tide would be best. At high tide there are loads of eddies and they attract just about everything. At low tide there are alot of shallow sandbars and this exposes a very deep channel that is about 25 m wide and about 5 meters deep. This is where the monster flatties will lurk. Any advice is very welcome

[Tip Tip]

Well i'm leaving at the crack of dawn on sunday and have sport duties tomorrow so i probably won't get the chance to get the 3 inch minnows but anyway. I'm not very experienced with sp so it shouldn't make a difference. At the mouth of the river would you think low tide or high tide would be best. At high tide there are loads of eddies and they attract just about everything. At low tide there are alot of shallow sandbars and this exposes a very deep channel that is about 25 m wide and about 5 meters deep. This is where the monster flatties will lurk. Any advice is very welcome

I'd cover all angles and just fish all tides

[fran1mat]

Well i'm leaving at the crack of dawn on sunday and have sport duties tomorrow so i probably won't get the chance to get the 3 inch minnows but anyway. I'm not very experienced with sp so it shouldn't make a difference. At the mouth of the river would you think low tide or high tide would be best. At high tide there are loads of eddies and they attract just about everything. At low tide there are alot of shallow sandbars and this exposes a very deep channel that is about 25 m wide and about 5 meters deep. This is where the monster flatties will lurk. Any advice is very welcome

All we did with the Minnow's was to kept the rodtip low to the water and 'twitched' with very sharp wrist movements and a slow wind at the same time. Was very effective up there but I can't take a trick using this technique in Sydney (have more luck with the big lift of the rod tip from 0 to 90 degree's with a few twitches on the way.)

Not sure about the tides mate but I agree with Tip Tip, it wouldn't matter to me, if I was up there I would be fishing whenever I could.

All the best and hope to hear how you go.

Matt