Spintail lure and Barramundi

When it gets colder, Barramundi starts not to bite well. Especially the temperature gets early 20 degrees in the morning, barra shuts down. If you wanna catch barra constantly in this season, you don’t want to forget to bring blade baits such as Sonnar.

It’s a good old simple technique; lift and fall on the bottom. I thought that spintail bait would produce more bites if this shinny little Sonnar could do a good job. Consequently, I went to search a Little George in my tuckle box and found one. I hadn’t seen Little George since I got married. So, it must've been sitting in my box for 14 years!
So, I took it to fishing, but nothing bites on it. I still don’t know why. But other spintail baits caught barra.

We have many spintail baits in Japan, and one of the best barramundi catching baits is Jado’s Kurukuru Revenge. It’s a 21g,  5mm small metal chunk with a blade on its tail, but this thing is another killer in the water.

Basically, barramundi like lipless crank. I use it as a pilot lure to search the range that a school of barra stay in. Kurukuru is the same thing. I can cast long and keep the range I want, with the appearing blade. It is unnecessary to do any special technique, just throw it out in a fan-like form covering different ranges of water until barra bite. Once I know the range and angle, I change the bait to jerkbait and move it a little slower.   

A good ol' barra producer.