whats up in saltfly? new products , summer ambitions , burning questions, bring back wolfie ?

I like your surface fly Troutzilla , I bet you appreciated my post "to post" to go with your toast. Lets take that surface fly for a swim. 

I got sent these by a mate who uses them for fishing in estuaries and surf etc so am looking at bringing them into nz.
he catches snapper and kahawai on the plastics but the hooks get a bit hammered by the snapper so unless they can use a stronger hook wont be much good.
but mainly looking at the silver and gold lures.
This is how he uses them

Use your soft bait rod or longer rod. I use spinning reels spooled with 8 – 15 lb braid. Monofilament or fluorocarbon trace of about 3-4’. Cast slightly upstream into the current and allow to arc back into you on a tight line. Rip the lure through the water occasionally and pause after the rip. You will feel the lure vibrate madly every time you rip and it is this sonic vibration which attracts the fish.

Yea these Eddies i got sent the hooks are pretty light for snapper but he has fun with them. KY too..
This is how he rigs them,the ball is 1 1/2" and about couple mtrs of line and he uses it in estuaries,river mouths and surf,casts it out and slow retreives it back in

Thanks Millsy ,

smelli wrote: Yea these Eddies i got sent the hooks are pretty light for snapper but he has fun with them. KY too.. This is how he rigs them,the ball is 1 1/2" and about couple mtrs of line and he uses it in estuaries,river mouths and surf,casts it out and slow retreives it back in

well I am buying a new boat for salt fly and popper fishing, it has to be one that I can stand up in but I dont want a cabin boat or any of the bling bling. I am going to get a dory to do this, the one I am looking at is a little under powered but time will tell, lots of spots up here around our coast where a small boat like this will work well for a few applications.

yip that one and one other but have eyes on a Panga, 

I looked at a few Panga designs/ideas. They certainly have some good points. Maybe next time.

I am off to Sydney for work for 2 weeks on Monday, so no fishing for me for a while, FYI