don't worry to much mate.

You could PM Ryan (oceanside) or Doug (tackleshack) and I'm sure they can arrange a suitable box full of lures for your arrival as both are well versed and experienced, knowledgeble and friendly blokes. all ya gota do is pay, and great service.

metal slices such as halco, raider and gillies are a few. anything from 30-90g will suffice.

get some assorted lures like poppers, stickbaits and minnows from brands such as Halco, rapala, yo zuri and nilsmaster. you should see some of these brands in the UK? or at least the names.

get some soft plastic such as squidgies, atomic, snapback, slam and gulp. anything from 3-7inch and get some jigheads around 1/4- 3-4 Oz. TT are the best jigheads I find. paddletails and jerkshads work the best I reckon.   

be a good experience to spend time in one of the shops.....good therapy..ha ha

G'day Roger,

where are you going to be fishing? are you the fellow coming from the UK?

You cant go wrong with a Halco Twisty on pretty much any fish I reckon, but they are particularly good for mid-surface predators like tailor, salmon, mackeral, cobia, tuna etc. And the smallest versions are the most deadly thing you can use for herring, pike, tailor, actually pretty much any of your smaller fish, even flathead, skippy and bream if you let it jig down a little deeper. They are metal lures and so cast like bullets too, and are very durable. There are many similar kinds of lures, like Raiders and such, but for some reason Twistys seem to do it better than the rest...

Twistys: http://www.halcotackle.com/twisty.html

Raiders : http://www.spanyid.com.au/spanyid/raider.htm

 I use 3 or 5g twistys for herring with almost 100% success - they are too light to cast on anything heavier than 8-10lb line, so rig them up behind a solid plastic or wooden float for weight. You can pack some floats with burley to bring them round more and more as you cast it and it scatters as the float hits.

15-20g are great for tailor, and upwards for the bigger fish.

Leadheads are also great, especially if you have a high-speed retrieve reel on your side - they cast really well, crank them in at top speed so they hit the surface and drag a bubble trail with them. jerk the rod to give them more action, even letting the jig drop down to the bottom at the extreme if the fish are down deeper. same species with the different sized lures. Big John has a post on fishwrecked somewhere that shows how to make them, but it will also show you what they are and the colors he makes, etc.

Poppers work really well for most predatory fish too. There are some real poppering gurus on Fishwrecked...hopefully someone will jump in here...

dunno what more to say...it depends on where you will be fishing and for what, I guess.

Whiting are suckers for the bait jigs that people use to catch herring etc on...you can get a good feed from most beaches in a jiffy.

The Oceanside or Tackle Shack fellas on this site will be able to help you out.

cheers, hope that helps!!
Ewan

haha Damo ya pipped me at the post as I was writing!!

damn straight...how could I forget soft placcies and squid jigs!!

Though soft plastics are foolproof, they also get chomped pretty easily and you are pretty much just throwing plastic into the water... but they sure work good.

 Cheers,

Ewan

if you are keen pm me before you arrive, i would be happy to get you onto some grey banded, red snapper and dewys if keen, and a tour of a mussel farm.