Australian bass and estuary perch are built for ambush. They sit tight to timber, weed edges, rock bars, drains, and undercut banks, waiting for something edible to make a mistake.

This collection covers the flies you need for that sort of fishing, from surface patterns that bloop, skate and wake across the top, through to baitfish, shrimp, prawn and small streamer patterns that can be worked through the snags and current lines.

For bass, that might mean a noisy surface fly tight against the bank at first light, or a small baitfish pattern stripped past a drowned log. For estuary perch, it might be a shrimp profile worked slowly around bridge pylons, rock walls, moorings, weed beds and back eddies.

These are flies chosen for Australian water and Australian species. The sort of patterns that suggest cicadas, moths, shrimp, gudgeon, glassies, small mullet and other bits of food that bass and perch actually eat.

Whether you are fishing freshwater creeks, tidal rivers, lakes, estuary edges or brackish backwaters, this range gives you the right mix of surface, subsurface and structure friendly flies to cover the water properly.