Snaglesss soft plastics

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So seeing as fishing the weeds and lillies seems to be a popular way to hook barra in the dams, has anyone had much luck with weedless soft plastics weighted with split shot, or unweighted. In Awoonga specifically

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Caught plenty of barra on "texas rigged" plastics in the lily's at lenthalls before they raised the wall  (Body of the hook under the plastic with the hook tip just under the surface of the plastic). but be warned the tow point is still a mecca for weed and lily's to catch up on~!

Getting pretty hard to do these days, so many large plastics come prerigged.

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cheers thanks for that.

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Mate have a look at the Reaction Strike hooks with the pigs dick up the front.They have worked well for me but like Blinder said they require attention and I havnt seen any of the smaller hook sizes in shops in Brisbane but I know they are available OS.

Toddy

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Yep like Binder  said  "TEXAS RIGGING "  you need whats called a worm hook , not easy to explane what they look like just do a " google "   you can get them in all different sizes  and with different weigths on them aswell . excellent for Soft plastic Frogs ... i am sure if you do a search on Youtube  you will find something . heaps of Barra anglers use them .

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With pre-rigged or whilst using SP's with a jighead with an exposed hook, try a tight stretching rubber band, placing it in front of the toe point and stretching it to the underside of the SP, past it's tail, then over the top and hook it to the inside of the barb of the hook. You may need to bend the hook slightly with pliers to keep the point of the hook beneath the rubber band.

Make long casts over the weed and just before the lure hits the water stop the line from stripping off your spool by either cranking the handle which throws the bail arm over or using your finger then wind, I prefer the later as I've have damaged bail arms in the past especially using heavier weighted soft plastics. The idea is to keep the SP higher in the water column not letting it sink to far into the weed before your retrieve.

Keep your rod tip high cranking our reel at head height or above, this will too keep the SP higher in the water column with the hope of catching less weed.

You will get some weed in places where you have mentioned, but sometimes it is unavoidable.

Hope this helps and gives you some more food for thought.

Cheers Dave

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Bracey thats sounds like a good idea.