sx40 question ?

madfly · #1 11-07-2009, 03:31 AM

Have read a lot about this lure and have a few myself but can't seem to use them effectively. I do a lot of my fishing casting lures and flies to pontoons and jetties ect. Is this the wrong place to be using them ? Are they more effective across weed beds or rock walls ? I have tried a couple of retrieve styles for nill results. I even tried one pontoon with the sx40 for no luck, tied on my soft plastic and had another drift past a got two fish!

Any help with retieve style and or places these lures are most effective would be a great help

vibefreak · #2 11-07-2009, 03:34 AM

Ive always used my sx40s across weed beds and shallow rocky reef areas with a slow twich twich retreive.

VF

Surface Breamer · #3 11-07-2009, 05:19 AM

Unless you can actually get your sx40 up under the jetty or pontoon then plastics are probably more effective. I find sx40s are productive around walls, shallow drop offs, weed beds, rocky shallows, sloping banks etc.

Remember that in Winter a lot of systems will have bream that will be less likely to hit a hard body so maybe try again when things warm up and the fish become more aggressive. In saying that I've smashed heaps of bream fishing sun warmed banks on hot Winter days but use a very very slow roll with minimal twitching.

Also try removing the front two front rings and just have a single size 10 treble on the rear I find by doing that you get a good hookup that is often in the mouth and you're less likely to drop them. It also looks that little bit more convincing.

madfly · #4 11-07-2009, 05:36 AM

Thanks heaps for the tips I'll give them a go in some different situations and keep you posted

ttpman · #5 11-07-2009, 07:07 AM

myself i recon there the best casting open water not deep sea like in canals rivers bays and creeks. so wat i mean is just wacking it out further not at structures half out the water. im gunna cop it for this but i honestly prefer sx48s for bream i know weird. apparently theres an sx43 commin out or is out i havent seen them yet theyll be the goods i think

Alex The Angler · #6 11-07-2009, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by ttpman

myself i recon there the best casting open water not deep sea like in canals rivers bays and creeks. so wat i mean is just wacking it out further not at structures half out the water. im gunna cop it for this but i honestly prefer sx48s for bream i know weird. apparently theres an sx43 commin out or is out i havent seen them yet theyll be the goods i think

SX43s have been out a while now

#7 12-07-2009, 12:41 AM

i love sx40's they catch just about everything, brought my 1st one for bream and landed my pb 75cm flattie on it, have been addict to them since and i use them just about every where, have caught bream, flatties, whiting, and a massive eel with them my fav colour which i know im gunna cop flak for saything this is, the silver and brown one,

Minnows · #8 12-07-2009, 02:02 AM

sx40's, shallow weed beds.. dive down........ twitch twitch twitch twitch twitch twitch twitch twitch twitch twitch.. BANG!

but when the bream are feeding like crazy, no need for twitch's, just a slow retrieve..BANG!!

MR_T · #9 12-07-2009, 02:52 AM

If you cast the sx40 parallell to a pontoon and really close to it and then retreive along the length of the pontoon they are quite effective. give it a rip to get the lure down then a slow retreive with some pauses mixed in. the main thing is that the lure gets down where the bream can see it and then stays in the stirke zone - if you're real close to the pontoon you should get some action.

For the jetties - if the bream are holding deep try a blade / vibe

fishbutler · #10 31-07-2009, 03:43 AM

just stick to the weed beds and sand flats with the sx-40's. If you still want to try hard bodies round pontoons then throw a blade n let it hit the bottom and just give it some big lifts I have had a lot of sucess doing it this way

madfly · #11 11-09-2009, 04:13 AM

Thanks for all the tips. finally got to use one the other day ad finally cracked it

breamski15 · #12 11-09-2009, 08:05 AM

that sx 40 has an awesome colour

Minnows · #13 11-09-2009, 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by yellow door 1

Its the Jingle of the Jangle that matters

shhh!

breamski15 · #14 11-09-2009, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by yellow door 1

Or forget what I typed and choose a lure colour that represents a bright pink mullet. Either way it doesnt matter. Its the Jingle of the Jangle that matters

LOL my bad, what he said

yellow door 1 · #15 11-09-2009, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by breamski15

LOL my bad, what he said

Nah you are spot on - there is nothing more effective than a belief that something will work.

How you arrive at that belief isnt important - if you believe in what you are casting - the bream will come