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GOING GUERRILLA
PRO TIP If your swimbait doesn’t come in is to keep the weights as close to
13Fishing Pro Staffer Aaron Hill multiple sink rates or has a chin tow the tow point as possible to ensure

THE CHASER SRLQW DQG \RX ZDQW WR À QG PRUH they don’t impact the hook up
rate of the dangling trebles. By
depth, there are two other ways to add
Without question any serious cod angler should have a some sink to your lure. Granted, these positioning under the belly of the
few swimbaits in their box, at a variety of sink speeds.
I’ve personally had the most success when using them options are a bit guerrilla, but they lure it also helps with the horizontal
under the guise of darkness fi shing them as a ‘chaser still work and have accounted for their presentation of the lure in the water.
bait’ to a surface lure. fair share of deep dwelling goodoo. When it comes to suitable chin or
Fishing in tandem with another angler who is using a 7KH À UVW PHWKRG LV WR VOLGH D VPDOO belly weights I have found a solid
surface lure, I’ll chase their casts with a big swimbait. 3/4oz ball sinker into you loop knot tungsten style drop shot sinker,
The noise and disturbance of a surface lure can often
tweak a big cod’s curiosity, but not get them to bite. while you are tying it. The small ball like the Picasso Tungsten Casting
By following up with an XOS swimbait you capitalise sinker will slide freely in the loop knot Drop Shot Weight ball, with its short
on any switched on cod in the vicinity that is not in and not impact the structural integrity shanked eyelet, ideal. These are
the mood to expel the required energy to explode of the knot, or the lures action. hard to get in Australia, but with
out of the water. A word of warning, these chaser Another, not as common method, the dramatic rise of swimbaits their
strikes have been some of the most violent I have is to attach two small drop shot impending arrival can’t be far off.
ever encountered, as a pent up greenback whacks my
wafting swimbait. sinkers via a thin, small split ring, Some strategic ‘Googling’ should get
to each treble tow point. The key you there in the meantime.

Aaron Hill proving
swimbaits are just as deadly
when cast from the bank
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