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The Fitzroy River barra fishery saw a big resurgence in anglers using Scott Fleming with a southern Moreton Bay snapper that snaffled the original Live Shrimp and Live Cherabin. Crawled along the bot- the Live Shrimp Hot Legs in weedless format.
tom very slowly, they are proving consistent barra magnets.
It’s a prawn thing: the low-down on Live Shrimp
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and hop technique.
This technique is simple to master,
in thick cover, be that snags, rocks, reef or weed.
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with the angler simply casting the lure to the target and letting it drop through the water column or struc- ture before hopping it a couple of times and then allowing it to drop again.
A different retrieve is the slow roll. This is another very simple tech- nique, with the lure simply being slowly wound back to the angler after the cast.
The Live Shrimp is available in over a dozen super-realistic colours. Considering the Live Shrimp won Best Soft Lure at the Australian Fishing Trade Association Trade Show on its release, it’s easy to see the credentials it has.
You can hop the lure subtly or harshly and you can hop it with large or small hops – it’s totally up to the angler and the situation they find themselves fishing.
The mechanics involve the angler casting the lure out, allowing it to sink to the desired depth and then slow rolling the lure back. You can mix up this retrieve with little shakes of the rod or rod tip pulses to give the lure a bit more action, but this is not always necessary.
In the field
The Live Shrimp is at its best in the field – when anglers are throwing it at fish. The most basic retrieve for this lure is the drop
Cod are not what you’d expect from the Live range, but the Live Cherabin in Glow colour produced this beautiful cod for Josh Usher.
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This retrieve makes the lure look for all the world like a real shrimp or prawn and is extremely effective
This retrieve really takes advan- tage of the stiffer legs we talked about earlier because they look very lifelike while vibrating and wrig- gling on the retrieve. These leg movements look very much like the legs of a real prawn as it swims through the water.
The perfect end to a great moment in a tournament where the Live Shrimp and Live Cherabin shone brightly for Clint Fannin and Aaron Gibbs.
An example was Wilson’s Clint Fannin catching a magnificent 124cm barra on the Live Cherabin
A more modern version of the slow roll is just a slower roll! This technique is used heavily in the Fitzroy River as clued-in anglers try to mimic a prawn crawling across the bottom.
The idea is to keep the Live Shrimp crawling across the bottom and the retrieve is painfully slow. This re- trieve is based on excellent theory and works wonders in the Fitzroy.
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