Gunfish 75's

[Green Hornet]

With the whole whiting thing in full swing I'm always looking for a new lure and came across these Lucky Craft Gunfish 75's.
On paper they look like a slightly larger Sugarpen but with an extra couple of grams and some pretty nice colours they might be worth a go.
Can anyone tell me if its worth buying a few?

[Yellafella]

Originally Posted by Green Hornet

With the whole whiting thing in full swing I'm always looking for a new lure and came across these Lucky Craft Gunfish 75's.
On paper they look like a slightly larger Sugarpen but with an extra couple of grams and some pretty nice colours they might be worth a go.
Can anyone tell me if its worth buying a few?

They are a lot fatter than the sugarpen's but basically the same action. You can also displace quite a bit of water with them, and they can provide a subtle pop too. Stock hooks are large also. As a whiting lure, I would be suggesting these only for the bigger ones. I never experimented with assists, however I was targetting the likes of giant herring. There are probably better out there for your intended species imo (such as the sammy), but they'll definitely work and cover a great deal of ground.

[Green Hornet]

Originally Posted by Yellafella

They are a lot fatter than the sugarpen's but basically the same action. You can also displace quite a bit of water with them, and they can provide a subtle pop too. Stock hooks are large also. As a whiting lure, I would be suggesting these only for the bigger ones. I never experimented with assists, however I was targetting the likes of giant herring. There are probably better out there for your intended species imo (such as the sammy), but they'll definitely work and cover a great deal of ground.

Thanks for the reply. I'll probably grab a couple and give them a go as there's some real quality fish around at the moment, plus I've been getting a lot of ridiculously small fish on the Sugarpens.
Just started tying my own ZX style assists and they're working every bit as good as the Ecogears.

[mickthe]

Just tried some of these recently with assists on the rear (chasing whiting) and was working one quite hard and quickly so they could find the lure....... all I got was a whole school of bream fighting for it and without stopping the lure I was hooking up on those assists constantly on bream.

I need to try again in a whiting only zone but they are great lures for that skipping action just with more noise and less subtle than a Sugapen.

Mick.

[Green Hornet]

Thanks for the reply Mick.
I'll definitely grab a couple and give them a try.