Wangaratta cod, finally landed one on a surface lure.
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2019 5:48 am
Plan was to go to Goulburn. Got up 2:45am and last minute plan change, drove 3hrs to Wangaratta instead, lol.
Plan was to fish the sunrise low light on surface first around 5:30am, but the additional hour made me and my mate late. By the time we got there the sun was already slightly up around 6:30am.
Thought give the surface lure a try for half an hour or so.
5th cast and BOOF! The extended rear treble worked and the fish was on and stayed on. Not big but fish is a fish. And my first cod landed on surface lure!
Had another small cod following the surface lure minutes later but didn't hit the lure, quiet after that. Lost the surface lure minutes later. The regret was, I was looking away when the boof happened. Only saw the after splash
Kebab lunch and fished again using stump jumper. I dropped a small cod and had another 'looker', I'd say around 60cm cod, but didn't hit the lure. My mate caught one around 40cm.
Was warm, muggy and flies everywhere. We're done by 4pm, got home at 7:30pm. Not a very successful trip in comparison to the effort put, but had some action and caught one each. Good enough. 4 hours sleep, long drive and 10 hours fishing, exhausting.
Plan was to fish the sunrise low light on surface first around 5:30am, but the additional hour made me and my mate late. By the time we got there the sun was already slightly up around 6:30am.
Thought give the surface lure a try for half an hour or so.
5th cast and BOOF! The extended rear treble worked and the fish was on and stayed on. Not big but fish is a fish. And my first cod landed on surface lure!
Had another small cod following the surface lure minutes later but didn't hit the lure, quiet after that. Lost the surface lure minutes later. The regret was, I was looking away when the boof happened. Only saw the after splash
Kebab lunch and fished again using stump jumper. I dropped a small cod and had another 'looker', I'd say around 60cm cod, but didn't hit the lure. My mate caught one around 40cm.
Was warm, muggy and flies everywhere. We're done by 4pm, got home at 7:30pm. Not a very successful trip in comparison to the effort put, but had some action and caught one each. Good enough. 4 hours sleep, long drive and 10 hours fishing, exhausting.