What is a chubby/ fat lure meant to represent?

CHUNQX · #1 23-01-2011, 08:35 PM

The popularity of chubbies/ fat profile lures can't be disputed on the bream. Just wondering what they are meant to look like because the only thing I can think of that has that round fat profile is the toadfish and I didn't think the toady has a natural predator. Unless juvenile toadies are edible and non-poisonous until they grow to a certain size when they become toxic and inedible. Any ideas?

forsterfisho · #2 23-01-2011, 08:52 PM

A wounded bait fish perhaps? Imagine a fish on its way out, with a big wide swimming action?

CHUNQX · #3 23-01-2011, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by forsterfisho

A wounded bait fish perhaps? Imagine a fish on its way out, with a big wide swimming action?

I did think about a baitfish which is infected/sick/injured and is fat because its bloated from the infection/sickness/injury but if I were a bream I wouldn't want to eat something which is sick or infected, you'd think.

forsterfisho · #4 23-01-2011, 10:26 PM

or...you could not worry and just accept that they work

Windknot · #5 23-01-2011, 10:47 PM

Interesting question. I don't really know either, but I've always thought they were meant to represent the juvenile fry of deep bodied fish, like bream, trevally, etc. They do look a little like a chubby lure in profile.

It's very rare to see a deep bodied, but thin in cross section, lure. I can't recall ever seeing one. I'm not saying they're not out there, but if they are, I don't recall seeing one.

Coming back to the original reasons for making fat/chubby styled lures in the first place, I assume they were made that way initially, out of wood, to give a short lure a good weight, to make it cast better. Seeing as these lures caught fish, I suppose there was never any reason to change the already proven design when moulded plastic and internally weighted lures came onto the scene.

Mick

CHUNQX · #6 23-01-2011, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by forsterfisho

or...you could not worry and just accept that they work

Just trying to better understand the quarry...

nagz · #7 24-01-2011, 01:22 AM

i think the answer to that question lies with what the original targets for the lures preyed upon. i dont think they were officially designed for bream were they, i thought they were meant for the japanese/yank bassing community. i guess if u found out what they ate, that'll give u a better idea

i personally havent seen anything in the water that looks like a chubby, except those little fat toady things

the baitfish i have seen tend to be all slender white/grey/transperant speed machines

breamanater · #8 24-01-2011, 01:44 AM

maby its an aggresion strike they are just getting pissed of with it

warren63 · #9 24-01-2011, 01:48 AM

Im with the toad fish too. Actually the smith camion in that toad fish pattern is a killer on the flats at times. I always thought they were poisonious but maybe bream dont feel the affects.

Also how come everytime i hear the word chubby i think of arrested development ??

yellow door 1 · #10 24-01-2011, 01:55 AM

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Originally Posted by CHUNQX

The popularity of chubbies/ fat profile lures can't be disputed on the bream. Just wondering what they are meant to look like because the only thing I can think of that has that round fat profile is the toadfish and I didn't think the toady has a natural predator. Unless juvenile toadies are edible and non-poisonous until they grow to a certain size when they become toxic and inedible. Any ideas?

They do have a few natural predators

nagz · #11 24-01-2011, 01:58 AM

that must've been one hungry snapper. i cant see those little so & so's tasting all that great

TheChief · #12 24-01-2011, 03:58 AM

Might have to try a Toad Fish live bait rig for snapper! lol

dewie · #13 24-01-2011, 04:24 AM

bream are well known for eating turds, in brisbane the biggest and fattest hung around luggage point right at the point raw sewage was released, a chubby in a brown tone is a good match

Shortytheyakker · #14 24-01-2011, 04:31 AM

Snapper love blowies (toadies) , they are always great crab bait as well.

CHUNQX · #15 24-01-2011, 04:48 AM

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Originally Posted by yellow door 1

They do have a few natural predators

Hmm, if you told me without the photo, I would not have believed it. Even with the photo, I'm still a bit sceptical. I have to open up a snapper and see it for mself before I'll believe it. Small problem. I got to catch me one of those first.
Makes sense that if snapper ate toadies, the bream would eat juvenile toadies too. In fact, I don't ever recall seeing juvenile toadies. The ones I see swimming around are all snapper bait sized. Maybe the little juvenile ones are being hammered by bigger fish like bream, flatties so they don't come out as openly as their adult toadies.