Lubin Pfeiffer with a flathead landed fishing weedless around the weed and rubble bottom.
Fishing for snag dwellers
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Sean with a flathead landed fishing the mangroves and snags with a NedlockZ EWG jig head and TRD BugZ.
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HE weather is warming up and our favourite snag dwellers are starting to stir, shake off the colder winter months and smash up the local herring and poddy mullet population. The ability to entice a bite from snag dwellers, such as flathead, bass, barramundi – impoundment for those chasing them during the closed season – and mangrove jack, often hinges on getting your presentation close enough or deep enough into the structure to attract their attention and draw a strike. In this article I want to run through some weedless rigging and how to effectively fish the structure that is holding the fish, to maximise your chances of winning the battle. The weedless rig For much of our fishing we can rig our plastics on a standard jhook style jig head and
Tackle Tactics by JUSTIN WILLMER
fish without snagging or fouling. Entering the arena of species such as bass, jack and barra though and a casting with a standard jig head could see your presentation snagged or fouled before you’ve even turned the reel handle. Timber, weed, lilies, reeds, overhanging vegetation and snag piles all provide shelter, create breaks in the water flow, attract and hold bait, and provide ambush points for these predators to strike from. Weedless rigging is actually quite simple, with many anglers finding it easier than having to feed more of the plastic onto a standard jig head. Rigging weedless involves capturing the
chin of the soft plastic, by feeding the hook a short distance into the plastic and then popping it out of the underside of the plastic. The section you have pinned is then slid up into the section of the weedless hook that holds it in place, we measure out where the hook needs to exit the back of the plastic and feed the hook point straight up through the plastic. The plastic will then sit straight on the hook, with the ‘chin’ held in place and the barb and hook point sitting against the top of the plastic to drastically reduce snagging and fouling. Weedless jig heads There are a variety of weedless jig heads * continued P13
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