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TECHNIQUE: SWIMBAITING COD

n today’s connected society we are with Ray Broughton’s Catching a
adopting technologies at a faster Legend were the key catalyst for me to
rate than ever before. For instance, À UVW SU\ IUHH D GLYLQJ KDUGERG\ IURP
it took nearly 60 years for 90 per its tackle store peg and give it a swim.
cent of Aussies to get electricity While it didn’t take as long, the
back in the early 1900s, while in next lure type to be permanently
I 1990 it took less than a quarter of recruited into the Murray cod club
that time for the same population to was the now omnipresent spinnerbait.
get a mobile phone. That’s a bit like Kudos to Rod Mackenzie, Glen Casey
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Think about it. The trusty Aeroplane who expedited the adoption of these
spinner was a once in a generation wiry warriors into the Murray cod
lure that shouldered the full brunt of mainstream faster than any other lure
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WR WU\ DQ DUWLÀ FLDO SUHVHQWDWLRQ RQ With a spinnerbait on nearly every
cod. This was no easy feat. Slowly, the native anglers rod, along paddled the
spinning and twirling lures proved surface lure revolution. Coinciding
their worth and paved the way for the with the rapid growth of the Internet,
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and roll onto the Murray cod scene. tool, these surface surfers gained tackle
Hardbodies like the ole faithful box space quicker than all before them.
Stump Jumper and Kaditcha, paired Do you see a trend developing?
with lure makers and anglers like Now, smack bang in the middle
Ken Hendry, Ray Broughton and Rod of a digital tsunami with 92 per cent
Harrison, did more for the adoption of internet penetration nationwide, we,
these lure types than any other factor. as a community, have never been
I still remember watching the so connected. As a result we now
crackly old videos of Harro in a beat complement the information we digest
up punt, trolling up quality cod after from print and television, by actively
quality cod on his trusty Kaditcha. VHHNLQJ DQG ¶SXOOLQJ· GLJLWDO À VKLQJ
These simple video promos, along content and information from blogs,

If you drink the swimbait coolade and believe

all the hype you’ll be brainwashed into believing

we’ve fi nally found the Murray cod’s kryptonite

This swimbait munchers
eyes were bigger than
its stomach

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