Herring fishing off southern beaches has been pretty amazing this year.  I've been using Gibbs Minnows* from which the herring have shredded all the paint.  This year my repaints have included nail polish finishes, which after nail polish clear coats, have been highly effective.  They've outfished far more realistic Sea Rock minnows, in fact.  

* I buy handfuls of these 1/4 oz - 2 oz minnows from Canadian Tire (C$5.49 + tax).  Their trebles are pretty ordinary.  I replaced them with top-quality trebles and instantly doubled my catch rate. Have taken larger species with them... and given their stomach contents, won't be all that surprised when a large mulloway ingests one... .

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