Fishing World

GETTING GRUBBY

DURING my years working on the tools in the NSW power industry to be called a grub was probably one of the worst insults going around, yet when it comes to fishing soft plastics, grubs have been a long time favourite lure style of mine. My first ever lure caught dusky flathead was taken back in the late 1970s on an orange double tail Mr Twister grub. The Mister Twister double tail grubs were the first really successful soft plastic lures brought into Australia that I recall and were popularised at the time in through the writings of

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