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SPECIES: BARRAMUNDI

Always keep an eye out for
previously tagged barra.
The slime hanging off the
tag is a giveaway

Second, Zerek Live Shrimp, lures. This day and age it’s all about
Cherabin and Hot Legs have all soft plastics so it’s a good idea to
proven themselves. You can run them have a few quality hard body lures to
weedless with the hooks that come change it up.
with them or if you’re like me you can For suspending lures the Lucky Craft
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with a regular jig head. It just depends are my picks. Both come with barra
if you’re working heavy structure or ready trebles straight from the box.
out in the open. For timber hard body lures it would
Thirdly I really like the Jelly Prawn be hard to go past Lethal Lures. They
lures. It will be the closet imitation are made local and have proven
you will ever see to a real prawn. themselves time and time again.
There is a video on their website of the When selecting lures to take on your
jelly prawn next to a real-life prawn. EDUUD À VKLQJ H[SHGLWLRQ DV ORQJ DV
Very hard to see the difference. you have a selection of lures that cover
It’s a well-known fact that barra eat different actions you’re on a winner.
mullet so you will need some paddle 5HFHQWO\ ZH À VKHG WKH VDPH EDUUD VSRW
tail soft plastics. My two picks are the IRU WKUHH GD\V LQ D URZ 7KH À UVW GD\
Willy’s from Happy Rock Softies and ZH JRW RXU À VK RQ YLEHV WKH VHFRQG
the Z Man Swimmerz. Both plastics day was hard bodies and the third was
are really soft giving off an awesome prawn imitations. Just make sure that
roll and beaut tail kick even when the terminals hanging off those lures
worked really slow. are good quality as mentioned because
No barra lure collection would be EDUUD DUH KDUG RQ KRRNV DQG ZLOO À QG
complete without some hard body any weak point.

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