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TECHNIQUE: SWIMBAITING COD
The addition of a
double split ring
on the front treble
strikes when I nurse them, like a waters surface. of your swimbait
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or protruding branch or boulder. I ‘Bidgee on a slow summer afternoon twist in the fi shes
mouth without
like to take my time with each cast, chucking a Jackall Gantia swimbait, bending out
sometimes due to shoulder fatigue, when I routinely worked the lure your hooks.
and think about how a frightened SDVW WKH SHUIHFW Á RZ SRLQW WR FRPH
carp would traverse through any through unscathed.
snag-laden area. What key obstacles Just as it was about a foot under
and limbs of a snag or scattered the gin-clear water, with leader in
boulders would they have to swim my guides, a Murray cod the size of
around to make it up or down river? a kitchen materialised underneath
If I were a cod where would I sit and it. Opening its mouth it made the
ambush a free-swimming carp? 180mm swimbait look like a tic tac, as
These are the key vantage points it gobbled it in one gulp. NORBS’ TOP 5
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when casting swimbaits in snag-rich exhilarating I have ever experienced MURRAY COD SWIMBAITS
rivers. Like surface lures, don’t think as a super green goodoo made a
your work is done if you don’t receive beeline for its snag. Some white- 1. Jackall Gigantarel
D VKRXOGHU VODS RQ WKH Á RZ SRLQW &RG knuckle rod work kept it from 2. Mike Bucca Bullshad
3. Jackall Ganita
routinely stalk these lifelike lures reaching home, ramming home that 4. Deps 250 Slide Swimmer
out of their territory before violently you must always work swimbaits 5. DRT Clone
obliterating them an inch from the right back to the rod tip.

Cod routinely stalk these lifelike lures out of their territory before

violently obliterating them an inch from the water’s surface

Harry Watson with a Jackall
Gantarel swimbait crunching
cod he got from working the
bait on the surface by attaching
to the bottom tow point

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