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General Angling Topics => Saltwater Lure Angling => Topic started by: borntofish on September 09, 2014, 10:58:43 AM
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:gt:hi guys , do you know of any nice allrounr lures, Garrick, gt, shad and also dropshots... Thnx
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The Abu Toby spoons from Basil Manning are my favourite. Shad and black tip kingfish.
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Bucktail jigs?
http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/index.php?topic=18260.0 (http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/index.php?topic=18260.0)
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Halco Twisty Spoon, Abu Toby Spoon - Those spoons you cannot go wrong.
McCarthy Minnows & Paddletails - Good baitfish imitations.
Halco Hamma, Halco Max, good casting lure for Geets, Kob, Shad and I am sure Garrick will chow them nicely as well.
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Chisel nose plugs . Cheap and nasty but they work !
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Chisel nose plugs . Cheap and nasty but they work !
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Halco Twisty Spoon, Abu Toby Spoon - Those spoons you cannot go wrong.
McCarthy Minnows & Paddletails - Good baitfish imitations.
Halco Hamma, Halco Max, good casting lure for Geets, Kob, Shad and I am sure Garrick will chow them nicely as well.
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I agree 100% with Walker !
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Strike pro surface lure! :win:
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Ok, so I chose some all-rounders from my stash, from top to bottom:
(http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/MGalleryItem.php?id=2236)
1. GT Ice Cream Candy - Needlenose Plug
Great long casting surface lure and is taken by Garrick, Springer, various Kingfish species and larger Shad.
2. Abu Garcia - Toby Spoon
Good for shad and Kingies, but it doesnt have to be copper. The only reason this one is, is because I have a silver one (although smaller), and I have a shortage of copper colour when it comes to my metal spoons.
3. McCarthy 5" Paddletail
Shad (smaller shad tend to bite them in half though), Kob, various Kingfish species and a mate has caught Garrick on them. Darker colours contrasting more with the white belly seem to work better in cleaner clearer water.
4. CID Iron Candy - Bullet
This one is in "Green Glow" and has only caught Shad, but if I used it more I'm sure Kingies and Kob etc. would grab it. Best at daybreak and sunset (but maybe that's only because that's when I spin?). I'm going to get it in pink after watching my mate get shad after shad with a Kingfisher Jet Spoon in pink & glow.
5. Halco Twisty
Shad, Kingfish and Pickhandle Barracuda on the smaller ones.
6. Chase 5 Bullet Spoon
These spoons come in all silver (white metal mix), or with half glow from back to front on two sides. Shad and Kingies so far. The first day I used one a mate bought for me I got a 3kg Greenspot Kingie off the beach in Umhlanga. Plenty of shad thereafter up and down the coast, but also maybe just because it became my go-to spoon for a couple of years after the first Kingie.
The thing is, it's not so much the colour or the lure that elicits the bite as it is the action you give it, and you have to make them "provocative" in the water. Chucking them in clear water from an elevated position will show you what they do at different speeds. Depth also needs to be variable, as different species prefer feeding at different depths at different times and tides, and sometimes today you get a Shad with a lure swimming just below the surface at a decent speed and tomorrow the only time they bite is if it's slowly nearer the bottom.
Just have to spin regularly and try different things, taking note of tides, air pressure, wind direction, water colour, water temperature etc. when you do catch. There are so many variables but you will learn as you go along and have lots of fun doing it.
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Hi Jball
You can help Borntofish a lot because you are a very experience angler in that area ! :shd: :grk: :gt:
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Nice pic and explanation Jball :+ cred:
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Nice pic and explanation Jball :+ cred:
x2!
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Thanks for the great info Jball!!! :geet :+ cred:
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Definitely the following:
GT Ice Cream 2oz (plain white)
Iron Candy Couta Casting #2 (green glow)
McCarthy Paddle tail 5" with 1oz jig head (Chartreuse pepper neon)
And the absolute slayer is the new CID Slimbait 175 it catches everything :grk: :gt: :shd:
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Maria Duplex lures!!! Absolutley deadly, catches pretty much every game fish you can think of.
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Need to get me one of those :hnthnt:
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The Marias are rather dissapointing in the castability department.
The Ondes are quite deadly for shad.
The Toby spoons as well - they swim nice and slowly.
Nylon plugs are great for kingies, Garrick, and even shad. Also great castability.
7 or 8in paddletails are great for kob and garrick, but the shad decimate them.
I love throwing Halco roosta poppers - Garrick, Kingies, shad. they cast a lot better than you think.
(http://i57.tinypic.com/2cmxmye.jpg)
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Thnx jball :tkx: :+ cred: thnx to the rest of u guys too
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Oops wrong Emily face guy sorry
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Oops wrong Emily face guy sorry
On the top right hand side of your post you will see two buttons one says quote and the other one says modify (with a little pen on a notepad), if you click modify you can edit anything in your post after you've posted it. I use it alot to correct the millions of spelling mistakes I make.
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I did not know that hahaha :dunno: Thanks Spickerish
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Borntofish, you got line and lures yet?
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Oops wrong Emily face guy sorry
On the top right hand side of your post you will see two buttons one says quote and the other one says modify (with a little pen on a notepad), if you click modify you can edit anything in your post after you've posted it. I use it alot to correct the millions of spelling mistakes I make.
:blush: me 2.....
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OK kwl thnx :+ cred:
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Hey jball, I got the jdb 4 strand braid and no lures yet
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Let us know when you got, can maybe hook up for a spin....
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Why has no one mentioned Ondas?
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I've got a pink one but haven't used it
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The Ondes are quite deadly for shad.
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Oh right I didnt see that :blush:
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Was at Mapelane for the weekend. Got absolutely smashed by a GT on a Toby spoon . I was really outgunned using my Amia with a Stradic 4000 but it was fun while it lasted. The rest of the weekend was pretty dead. My son got a Garrick on the Jetski.