Ningaloo bombie advice - please
Gday crew
i'm getting my old boy some tackle sorted for his quick mission up to exxy next week. he will fish probably exclusively inside the reef south of Tantabiddi off a dinghy. common practice in the past has been to anchor off a bombie and burley. mixed success but sometimes the spangos and golden trevs are ridiculous! good fun.
anyways - we have always fished unweighted mulies and fresh fish bait. so i'm tying him some rigs and stuff coz he's not really up to tying solid knots in 60lb mono anymore. but i was thinking i should rig him a few lightly weighted gangs for a slow drift out the back for mackies, and drift baiting etc if he gets into deeper water (unlikely - him and the uncle are pretty sedate old buggers).
so now i'm thinking - well, maybe i should set up a few soft plastics for him to chuck around the bombies? any feedback on the best type? deadset - he'd be lucky to try em i reckon so i dont wanna go get seven different sizes etc, but did wanna arm him with something. was thinking of berkley alives as they will keep nice in the caravan for whenever he may get around to using them...
any good advice on sizes/colours etc? or any revolutionary (and simple)rigs i could send him to battle with?
any advice appreciated.
tight lines fellas.
hlokk
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Cant get much cheaper and
Cant get much cheaper and simpler than a white lead-head jig. Effective too.
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Ryan Thipthorp
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preference!
The 5inch snapbacks in pink & chartruese are great. The spango's/trevs etc love em and they're very resiliant to being chewed up by charlie's etc!
60lb trace, TT jig head and your snappy SP
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Adam Gallash
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What Ryan said
How often have you caught spanglies and trevs inside the reef at Tantas on a white lead head Hlokk?
5 inch snappy's or atomic shads, white or chartruese, or blood red work well as a change up. Light lead heads are the way to go.
Stevef
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Adam, do you reckon the
Adam, do you reckon the Taikabura's would be an option here, or do you reckon the attrition rate might be a bit high?
hlokk
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Never been there, but have
Never been there, but have caught several trevs in Broome and talked to quite a few guys, and read various posts/articles that recommended white lead head jigs for up north (incl around exmouth). I wasnt aware they didnt work in certain areas. If theres certain areas they dont work for some reason, then please let us know.
Hansie said that the guy might not be all that interested in something complicated, so I thought the leadheads would be the easiest for him and his situation (and not nessicarily the absolute best thing you could use).
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Hansie
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sweet
good advice.
5 inchies it is. light jig head and 60lb. hopefully he'll chuck a few of em round while he's up there. two more questions if i may:
1.what action to use on em? cast/slow retrieve? or more sink then lift/retrieve, sink etc?
2. is there a better knot to use than the uni knot - that old chestnut? one that creates a loop for the head to sit in loosely? or just go the trusty uni?
thanks again for the advice guys.
Hansie
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hlokk
i imagine the leadhead probably not ideal inside the reef coz the water is shallow - often less than 5m. probably good a few k out the back of the reef tho. and always worth having in the arsenal. cheers
hlokk
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Uni knots are great all
Uni knots are great all rounders. If you want the knot to move a bit more freely you can pull the knot up a bit after cinching it down. Moves freely when jigging around (depending how much pressure you apply of course). When a fish hooks up it tightens.
The other option is to tie something like a rapala knot. Basically you tie a granny knot, take the end, pass through the eye of the jig, back through the granny knot, then tie a locked blood knot (as if the granny knot was the eye). An alternate way to do this is to use a uni knot instead of the locked blood knot.
http://www.fishsa.com/kntiesra.php
Theres also the perfection loop but I find it a little fiddly to tie (and not quite sure on the strength compared to the rapala)
(I make no guarantees whether these will work on the tantabiddi bombies)
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Adam Gallash
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Hansie
Sounds like your close to the mark mate, lift and retrieve, lift and sink and variations of that combination. I just keep changing my action until I find something that works. Shizz from Campbells is a good man to ask as well, he does a lot of soft placcie work up here.
You are spot on for the lead heads. As for knots for jig heads I go a variation on the perfection loop, pretty easy really. Tie half hitch but don't tighten, go line through jig eyelet, back up through half hitch loop and around once, tighten and do an extra half hitch or two for security after the knot. Not sure if thats the true perfection loop, but never had one pull, more likely than not you get pinged on the braid by the bombies.
Mick
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All I can say is...
...........CHARTRUESE. Nothing better IMO
Cheers Mick
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