choosing your lure the right way

Sebile, magic swimmer mullet

Match the hatch to the catch is generally a fly fishing terminology but none the less applies to all different styles of fisherman whether it is bait, fly’s or lures. Today matching lures to the catch will be the main aspect of my blog. The first thing to do is grab a cast net, give it a few throws in your favourite fishing spot and see what you get in the net. Snap a few pictures of the bait that appears more often than not, for example in my area mullet whiting and herrings appear the most. Now don’t go rushing off to buy your lures just yet. Try the live bait and see what it can pick up. Most types of mullet and white bait work best. Now getting on to selecting the right lure. The lure should represent these fish in not only body shape and colour but movement and swimming depth as well. Mullet mainly swim along the top water so your better with a small lip or slow sinking or suspending lure anything that will keep it in the top water.  Now size is a matter of opinion, do you believe that the target fish (the one you’re trying to catch) will go for the smallest of the baitfish school as any easy catch or the biggest one because it’ll be more filling. Sebile lures design and manufacture the best range of hard body lures on the market I have ever seen. The lures have incredible detail and colours which is what you need to get the fishes attention. The Sebile magic swimmer is a close shape and swim pattern to a mullet and in this range they have many different colours for different fishing and the colours are not hard to match, the colour I have chosen is MULLET.

koolie minnow nat. dark blue black

 Another great colour in that range is natural shine which represents most white bait you can find in your local area.  Sebile has more than 10 different style of lures which is a lot compared to most brands. The lure designs and colours would cater for any fisherman  for example if I wanted a pillie I would get a koolie minnow in natural dark blue black and that would give you a day of fun for anything from trevally to flathead.