If you are fishing with mono make the switch to braid. While I use 2-4 gear I can upscale a lot of what I mentioned above to my 5-8kg snapper gear. You can catch fish with mono and lures but the lack of feedback and the spongy response to the twitches gets painful. I have my off days with lures where I know I would have caught fish with bait but consistently catching above legal fish makes up for it. I have met a lot of people that say it doesn't work and then I show them my gear and show them how I do it and they look surprised and pleased at the same time when they hook up. Cast these out and (they cast really well) and wait till they hit the bottom (sag in the line) and drag them back (rather than twitch them back - you will feel the vibration through the braid) about 30 to 50cm and let it settle as you wind the slack in (keep line under tension and stay in contact with the lure). One blade type lure worth trying in non snaggy areas is the Ecogear ZX40 or ZX35 (I think colour is less important). In one short session this past summer one of my kayak mates picked up amberjack, kingfish, tailor, salmon and I think a yellowtail scad all on a twisty type lure.
The pelagics love the twisty (or similar) shiny lures and the competition and fast retrieve gives them very little time to decide to accept or reject the lure so they will often just go for it. Sometimes the fish are so focussed on the baitfish it takes a lot of casts to hook up but generally keep persisting. Vary the speed on the day to see what is working.
These cast a good distance and I have had a lot of different species on these. Lost 5 Halcos in one session to other clips pulling when the fish were bouncing on the lure. I use a swivel and duolock clip as I feel they are stronger than some of the other clips out there. At this point my go to lure is a Silver 10 gram Halco twisty with the trebles changed out to a single large eye size 1 hook (easier to get out of the fish and causes less damage). When summer comes I chase the schools of pelagics from the shore or the kayak. If line does not go on the reel with tension it will want to birdsnest at times. When you have to take line in make sure you wind back and keep the rod tip under tension. When you flick the rod tip retain tension in the line otherwise the lure will drop rather than swim back to the bottom. Small twitches for the smaller lures and slightly larger twitches for the bigger lures. Flick the rod tip away from the lure to give the lure movement. The line will belly out when the lure hits the bottom. Watch the line as the lure swims down to bottom. Cast out and then keep the rod tip low (and 90 degrees to the line to absorb shock) so the wind can't grab the line. Use a jig head heavy enough to get down to where you want it to go without losing too much of the movement.
I don't use Gulp but I think a biodegradable edible plastic is brilliant it is just that they get hard if they dry out. There are many fantastic alternatives out there but this works for me. My go to lures are Berkley Powerbait 3 inch minnows in pink, watermelon, blue or smelt or sometimes the 4 inch in watermelon. I like a stiff rod rather than a spongy rod as I use it to impart twitches to the lure.
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My gear for most of the lure fishing is 2-4kg 7 foot 6 2 piece Shimano raider Bream Finesse with a Symetre 1500 reel with 4lb Power Pro braid, 8lb backing (which I don't see) and 8lb Nitlon leader. My hands don't stink of bait after a session either. I can keep my fishing gear and lures in the car and if I decide to go for a fish at last minute I don't have race out to find bait. Most of my biggest fish have been on lure but my 104cm mulloway was on a squid I caught earlier that afternoon on a lure. With a lure the smaller fish might pick at it but I still have a chance at picking up something bigger. Throw a piece of food in the water and generally the smaller fish race in and the bigger fish follow up to take anything which might be left. When fishing with a friend using bait they might catch more fish but my fish are generally bigger. If I am teaching someone to fish I use bait but I prefer lures for most of my fishing for a number of reasons. First I've been fishing soft plastics for over 10 years and if they didn't work I wouldn't have persisted so long.
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