I was lucky enough to received just before Christmas, a present from Moz: two of his own handmade fishing lures. He even asked me if I would prefer them as nuddies or painted.
I said nuddies.
In this post you are going to read about:
Two timber fishing lures.
Both nuddy.
One I will use to fish, the other will stay dry in the collection.
Yes Moz is the maker of the now well regarded Stick With Eyes, a timber lure that has earned its strips on the Darwin Harbour mud flats. With a great amount of Barramundi already caught by this little lure.
Why a name like the Stick With Eye? Well maybe because that is what it simply look like.
Look for yourself:
The Stick With Eyes.
I am sure that now you understand why...
At first glance it does look like a stick with eyes.
But if you look at it closely, you start to see that it is shaped for swimming.
Hydrodynamic of the Stick with Eyes.
I can tell you that this very lure will be swimming, and hopefully bring me back a Barramundi.
This is what dream are made of...
And yes, it is signed under the chin, like a hipster tattoo:
Signed under the chin.
That to me is a fishing lure, who own its beauty in great part to it simplicity.
The rightly named Stick With Eyes.
At 9 cm long (3.5433071 inch), it is small, but has already proved it efficiency, it is power in a small package at its finest.
Now the second lure, called the Fall Out, is a lure that I have never fished, but this one will stay dry and safe, in my little collection.
It has already proved itself a good fish catcher too. After all, Moz caught a Barramundi that was over the metre mark on it in 2014. What other proof does one need?
And it is a rather beautiful one too:
The Fall Out.
Yes this one is a nuddy too. The more it goes the more I start to love my fishing lures to be "Au Naturel". I am yet to decide if they have the same fishing capacity as the painted ones, but on pure look, they have won my heart.
The Fall Out is a fishing lure of small size too: only 8 cm (3.1496063 inch).
Like the Stick with Eyes, it is rigged with double hooks instead of the more traditional trebles found on many hard body lures.
In fact I have myself equipped some of my Reidy's B52s with this type of hooks.
I then use them mostly when fishing land based, in very rocky places. This help to avoid getting snagged on the first rock or oysters that your lure bump into.
But I have to say that I didn't invent the system myself, no, in fact I had seen a post about it on the great blog: Secret Barramundi, written by Hiro, a legend of land based Barramundi fishing in Darwin.
Portait of the Fall Out.
When it is looking at you, you know that he means business.
From a profile point of view, the double hook, actually look like the fins.
Side view of the Fall Out.
This look like a small lure that would have a great action, destined to go snags bashing and extract fishes from the most unholy places.
The bib is made of aluminium.
Here is one last image, for the road as they say...
Dreaming of catching big fishes.
Both were made by hand, in Darwin, Australia.
We are pretty lucky in Darwin as it seems to be a revival of the cottage lure industry. It is very nice to see so many people making artisanal timber fishing lures; so close to home.
This is two lures that I really like and am very happy to now have in my possession.
Thank you Moz, that was a great Christmas present.
Have a good day,
Pecheur
