Bassday Sugapen 70
A 7cm, 5g stickbait from Bassday, floating for the surface water column typically run in pearl.
At a glance
- Type
- Stickbait
- Shape
- topwater
- Length
- 7 cm
- Weight
- 5 g
- Action
- floating
- Pattern
- natural
- UV reactive
- No
- Glow
- No
- Rattle
- No
- Scented
- No
How to fish it
Cast and worked with a slow, twitch-pause-twitch rhythm that mimics a wounded baitfish trying to re-school. Unlike the popper, the stickbait glides side-to-side under the surface — keep the rod tip low and snap the wrist; the lure does the work, you just feed it slack between twitches.
Sight-cast at busting fish or work it across current edges and bait schools. Top targets in AU water: Kingfish, Bream, Whiting. Stickbaits excel in the 30cm–1m subsurface zone where pelagics ambush, particularly when surface poppers spook clear-water fish in the middle of the day.
Match leader to fish size. 80–130lb fluoro FG-knotted to PE6–PE10 braid covers AU GT and kingfish work; subtropical work on tuna can drop to 60lb. Stock trebles regularly fail under sustained pressure — replace with single inline hooks (BKK Long Shank, Owner ST-66) on a stiff rear assist.
Cadence variations to test on the same drift: (1) sweep-pause-sweep gliding 1–2m per twitch; (2) faster panic walk-the-dog; (3) dead-stick hang for 3–4 seconds between twitches. Note which one triggers — fish change preference within a session.
Rigging
- Leader
- 60–130 lb fluorocarbon, FG-knotted to braid
- Braid
- PE6–PE10 for GT/kingfish work; PE3–PE5 for tuna
- Hooks
- Single inline + stiff rear assist (Owner ST-66, BKK Long Shank)
- Cadence
- Slow twitch-pause-twitch with rod tip low, feeding slack between twitches
Reading BiteCast for this lure
When this lure is in your tackle box, BiteCast's data layers tell you the right conditions to fish it. The most relevant layers:
- SST (sea-surface temperature) →
Match SST to the target species' preferred range; sharp surface fronts often coincide with feeding zones, even inshore.
- Chlorophyll →
The green/blue boundary is the food-chain front — fish concentrate on the edge, not the dense bloom interior.
Best months in AU
Surface lures shine in warm water — late spring through autumn for kingfish, GTs, and tuna; a quieter winter for tailor and salmon on southern beaches.
General guidance for southern + central AU; tropical north runs warm-water species year-round.
Where it shines in Australia
- Sydney Offshore (Browns / Banks)— EAC convergence + warm-core eddies push tuna and marlin within range Nov–May
- South-East Queensland (Gold Coast canyons)— Black + blue marlin, mahi-mahi, and yellowfin on the EAC mainstream Nov–April
- Far North QLD shelf— Year-round wahoo, mackerel, and dogtooth tuna over the GBR shelf and outer reef
Target AU species
About Bassday
JP topwater specialists. Sugapen is the iconic whiting/bream surface walker.
Origin: Made in Japan
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