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[Nicepix]

This is the Kokoda Bugger Chug.
The exact same lure used to be sold by Calelas as the "June Frog" under their own brand, so I assume it's a Chinese made generic that lots of companies sell.

I got a couple of the Cabelas ones a while back and they're great topwater chub lures.
I'd like a few more but really don't want to mess about with imports.
I'm sort of hoping that someone knows a company in the UK knocking these lures out under their own brand.
Any ideas ?

Are these any good? If so contact the seller my e-mail and order exactly what you want rather than take some of a set that you don't.

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item33754076fd

http://www.ebay.co.u...=item33752a2e73

Edited by Nicepix, 28 April 2012 - 06:28 PM.

[Bobj]

This is the Kokoda Bugger Chug.
The exact same lure used to be sold by Calelas as the "June Frog" under their own brand, so I assume it's a Chinese made generic that lots of companies sell.

I got a couple of the Cabelas ones a while back and they're great topwater chub lures.
I'd like a few more but really don't want to mess about with imports.
I'm sort of hoping that someone knows a company in the UK knocking these lures out under their own brand.
Any ideas ?

MO tackle, Coff's Harbour, NSW have them, Ken.

http://www.motackle....category_id=167

[Ken L]

Clive. No, but the little flouro crawfish lures in the second link are great for perch.

Bob. I know I can import them and I will if I have to but after a couple of links to UK lure suppliers that I'd never heard of before were recently posted on the forum, I was just fishing around to see if anyone happened to recognise the lures from someone's current inventory.
With the same generic lure being sold under so many different names, this seemed a reasonable way of finding them.

Strangely, I had three of them for years but didn't work out how to get the best out of them until two seasons ago. Now they're a favorite for fishing over a couple of sections where the river bed is rough sandstone with dips and pits that hold some very large chub.

[Bobj]

Clive. No, but the little flouro crawfish lures in the second link are great for perch.

Bob. I know I can import them and I will if I have to but after a couple of links to UK lure suppliers that I'd never heard of before were recently posted on the forum, I was just fishing around to see if anyone happened to recognise the lures from someone's current inventory.
With the same generic lure being sold under so many different names, this seemed a reasonable way of finding them.

Strangely, I had three of them for years but didn't work out how to get the best out of them until two seasons ago. Now they're a favorite for fishing over a couple of sections where the river bed is rough sandstone with dips and pits that hold some very large chub.

Topwater fishing is very 'big' in Australia and possibly bass are the most targetted. These are some of the better topwater lures:

http://www.sweetwate...eLuringBass.htm

[J.K]

Out of interest Ken, how do you work them ?

I get alot of hits on them but the chub just seem to be hitting them hoping to, I guess, sink them so they can go back and get an easy meal once disabled. So despite getting the hits I don't get the hook-ups.

Edited by J.K, 28 April 2012 - 08:56 PM.

[Ken L]

Out of interest Ken, how do you work them ?

I get a lot of hits on them but the chub just seem to be hitting them hoping to, I guess, sink them so they can go back and get an easy meal once disabled. So despite getting the hits I don't get the hook-ups.

I get a few by casting upstream and retrieving back just faster then the current but the killer is casting out and slightly down and just barely retrieving with the rod held high so that the lure swings across the current.
More often than not, it gets nailed but sometimes it gets sipped and that's when the reflexes and the no stretch line come in.
Either way, it's a steady slow retrieve.
If they're hitting the lure though, you should be hitting the fish.

Heddon Tiny Torpedoes are also good so long as they're dull coloured.

[J.K]

Thanks Ken, will give your method ago once the rivers re-open

[Nicepix]

I get a few by casting upstream and retrieving back just faster then the current but the killer is casting out and slightly down and just barely retrieving with the rod held high so that the lure swings across the current.
More often than not, it gets nailed but sometimes it gets sipped and that's when the reflexes and the no stretch line come in.
Either way, it's a steady slow retrieve.
If they're hitting the lure though, you should be hitting the fish.

Heddon Tiny Torpedoes are also good so long as they're dull coloured.

Ken,
If you are into fly-fishing try a brown Woolly Bugger fished the same way.



This is especially good over gravel in early season. Picks up trout and big perch too. I also do OK with this fly:



It is heavily weighted with an oversized dumbell and sits on the bottom hook point uppermost. I fish it on a sink tip or sinking line and tweak it along the bottom. I call it a 'Bullhead' unless I'm fishing for flounder in which case I re-name it a 'Blenny'.

[Ken L]

I do a bit of fluff chucking but I'm the first to admit that I don't have great skills. I do like taking chub off the top with various deer hair bugs. There's a couple of spots where the fish lie up over sandstone or gravel under willows and dropping a bug on them can be great fun.
I also get quite a lot on goldhead style mayfly nymphs but have a tendency to whack myself in the head if I try using clouser type heavy flies like the one in your last photo.

I'll be doing more fly rod fishing this year - I really want to hang a pot of maggots over a likely run and fish rubber maggots on a 5 weight outfit for a bit of a laugh. A barbel on that sort of kit will give me a serious runaround but i can think of a few spots where there are some very good roach in the sort of numbers where they can be conditioned to compete for bait as it hits the water.

Edited by Ken L, 29 April 2012 - 12:34 PM.