Hi

Yes totally new to it,  first time yesterday hence why I could not really get the hang of it and thought of trying out sub surface baits for casting as they may be a little more forgiving....

My 2 cents worth.....If you want a stick bait that is easy to work for beginners and can be used with both trebles or inline 7/0 's( i like shogun inlines) that is cost effective id go for the shimano ocea pencil......i have the 185 but they do smaller ones........you can do short stabs/long sweeps or rip them across the surface.....when you sweep have a small amount of slack ..so the lure will dart under the surface....if its tight...it will just skitter across the surface and that is unlikely to get you a result........make sure you leave pauses between sweeps and dont try to do things fast.......they often get hit on the pause.

Yep the starwalkers are a great bait, and easy to use as well. One of the lures that will catch fish with a simple cast and retrieve method, throw in a bit of rod work and they are even more effective.

I have used the star walkers (and lost them) in the solomons, certainly worked up there! :-)

Williamson range pursuit has had fish to 35kgs on them you can buy three 180mm ones for $69.99 or 3 130mm ones for $49.99 at all topcatch stores and are rigged on single vmc hooks

I dont know if any will still be around, but a dynamite slower action stickbait from R2C, the Doggie, was damned effective for me up in the islands....

and the star walker was also effective...

They look cute almost has me wanting one

Looks like a stick of rhubarb hanging out of that fish's mouth

Nice pics

That's them! I can't say I was too enthused with them really to start with....but the fish out voted me, as soon as I finally gave one a go, it got monstered. I got a couple of the smaller ones, but they seemed to tumble a bit more than I liked on the retrieve , the small wideglides are a way better lure in the smaller size.
The biggest issue I have with the wideglides is that they are such crap colours....made for the us/euro market, they may be all good for attracting fish, but they do nothing to get a fisherman to bite first! Compare with the star walkers, Chris has those in absolutely delicious colours, so you tend to use them with huge confidence. It's the old story, if a lure doesn't catch a fisherman first, it'll never catch a fish