Inspired by Red_pom's question about Lures. I thought I'd ask you all the same question about soft plastics.

What is your all time favourite and why?

While we are at it. What do you find them most effective on?

(Edited By rick at 15:40:42 17/06/07)

Yo Rick

Best soft plastic I have tried (and I ain't tried many) is the fox chubby shad (fire tiger pattern) It works really well when used sink and draw, just gentle bounces along the bottom - weed permitting - sends a nice little puff of silt up and looks like a feeding small fish. Just the job to entice an alert predator.

(Edited By Red_pom at 18:15:03 17/06/07)

Good old Snapbacks are always handy to carry. I dont use heaps of soft plastics but will take an assortment of snapbacks in different colours where ever I go. Just about everything seems to like them.

Gday fellas the only time i would use solt plastics if i put one on as a teaser on my spinner bait but that is not often cheers. virty

Virt,

Is that because you chase Cod primarily?

What are your reasons for that? As Soft Plastics fish relatively weedless too.

Gday rick its just some thing different for the fish to look at and makes the spinner bait work a little different to also it makes the spinner bait sink slower as cod seem to hit them on the way down a lot to cheers, virty

Well done on 200th post.

Quoting rick:

Inspired by Red_pom's question about Lures. I thought I'd ask you all the same question about soft plastics.

What is your all time favourite and why?

While we are at it. What do you find them most effective on?

(Edited By rick at 15:40:42 17/06/07)

Tough question for me as I have lost count of the amount of plastics that I carry on a regular basis.

Fave Plastics would have to be the Berkley 3" Powerminnow in Pearl Watermelon closley followed by the Squidgie Wiggler or Bug in Bloodworm color. I mainly chase Bream and Estuary Perch so they have proven themselves time and time again to be fish catching lures.

In saying that if I had to pick one and one only soft lure to use it would have to be the Berkley Gulp Camo Worm (6" Ragworm in Camo) they have prooved themselves on countless species time and time again, being versitile you can fish them weightless r on resin heads for sub surface work or as heavy as you like for deep and fast current work, I have even drop shotted them in places like Western Port where the current can run as fast as 8 knots at times and still caught fish. Biggest trick with plastics is keep a small range of varied colors and stles along with a good mix of jigheads.

My all time favourite plastic, used to be the number 3 squidy wriggler in 24 carrot gold, but they went and stopped producing that colour, which made me a sad panda. It used to rock on Trevor's, Bream and Flatties, not that the later says much, as I've found Flatties would hit an old piece of double plugger with a hook put through it, they aren't fussy at all :)

The current favourite is the Squidgy Pro Critter in Wasabi colour. It's absoute dynamite on bream and whiting. It's also netted me the occasional 45-50cm flatty. I love the action of this lure, with all it's claws/legs looking so lifelike.

(Edited By Shadhappens at 17:21:24 24/07/08)

Hi Guys, The last two years, I have been using Gulp Camo worms, Bream and Whiting seem to love these guys, I also cut them at their half way point just to make them go further, I am looking to try and get some Squidgy Boof frogs for Barra trip in October, anyone with any info, would be great, cheers Fellas

Quoting ecofreak:

Quoting rick:

Inspired by Red_pom's question about Lures. I thought I'd ask you all the same question about soft plastics.

What is your all time favourite and why?

While we are at it. What do you find them most effective on?

(Edited By rick at 15:40:42 17/06/07)

Tough question for me as I have lost count of the amount of plastics that I carry on a regular basis.

Fave Plastics would have to be the Berkley 3" Powerminnow in Pearl Watermelon closley followed by the Squidgie Wiggler or Bug in Bloodworm color. I mainly chase Bream and Estuary Perch so they have proven themselves time and time again to be fish catching lures.

In saying that if I had to pick one and one only soft lure to use it would have to be the Berkley Gulp Camo Worm (6" Ragworm in Camo) they have prooved themselves on countless species time and time again, being versitile you can fish them weightless r on resin heads for sub surface work or as heavy as you like for deep and fast current work, I have even drop shotted them in places like Western Port where the current can run as fast as 8 knots at times and still caught fish. Biggest trick with plastics is keep a small range of varied colors and stles along with a good mix of jigheads.

Freak I would probably have to agree on the Berkley 3" Powerbait minnow in Pearl Watermelon works a treat in 4" too. It is an absolutely killer on Flathead.