Eels?

JellyBobr · #1 16-08-2003, 08:44 AM

At the 4wd and fishing show in Sydney earlier this year they were demonstrating an eel like soft plastic in a large tank full of Barra.
These eels got hammered all the time that they were in the water, much more so than the HBs and other SPs.
Problem is no one that I know knows anything about them. Where to get them or how to rig them. They were used in a swiming motion and looked the part.
Can anyone help and would they work on bream or are the Barra in the tank trained

Bob

pw-bream · #2 17-08-2003, 06:56 PM

Funny you should bring that up...

I was just mentioning on another forum last week that I have some old Mr Twister giant worm/eel things that I got at the old Compleat Angler Melbourne city shop about 15 years ago.
The colours I have are red, pink and white. The lures are about 180-200 mm long and they are internally weighted and are pre-rigged with single strand, stainless wire and forged hooks.
One packet has a lead bib thing rigged on the front of the plastic.
The packet says "Curly tails" and each cardboard insert has a number, like a model number or similar, hand written on the back (inside the shrinkwrap) .

I went and got them out of my tackle storage area and I will be trying them out in the Barwon in pursuit of a Mulloway.

fatman · #3 17-08-2003, 08:02 PM

Funny thing those old plastics.
I took a mate out last summer on the Shoalhaven River, he is not really into plastics fishing, but he dragged out some old vintage plastics from the 70's that had been laying around his shed (still in unopened packages)for a bit of flattie fishing. After rigging up a long red worm thing (like pw-bream descibed in his last post) he got smashed after 20 or so casts by something big, his eyes were wide as dinner plates and he was speechless. He now has a better respect for plastics .

FATMAN

donfish · #4 18-08-2003, 06:33 AM

If you have a good look at a Ecogear Pad Tue you will see that it resembles an Elver which is a baby eel.Maybe this is there attraction to Bream.

donfish

JellyBobr · #5 18-08-2003, 08:20 AM

Thanks for the replies. These SPs were about 200 mm long and swam just like an eel or sea snake.
BobT

tryhard · #6 18-08-2003, 08:28 PM

They also might look like a wounded garfish trying to make its way through the water to safety.

MATTY · #7 18-08-2003, 08:59 PM

check out this sucker...
to give you an indication of its size,thats an 8/0 mustad in it..
in western angler a couple of issues ago hal harvy did a roundup of a tackle show in germany? one of the lures on show was a surf eel,was about 2 foot long and from memory a bright yellow.

the_hide · #8 19-08-2003, 02:59 AM

Theres a big chance its a LunkerCity Slug-go or similar style. Massively popular in the US for alot of the larger predatory species. I have a couple I use for Cod in the yarra, that and the similar designed senko are pretty good fish takers.

http://www.lunkercity.com/

pw-bream · #9 19-08-2003, 03:28 AM

The big "Sluggos" are reputedly good Kingfish and Snapper lures.
Here is a quick scan of one of the packets of the Mr Twister eel things.