Dumaresq green and gold fever.

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Went for a trip down the Dumaresq from Cunningham wier today.
Launched downstream and got a cod hook up withing sight of launch but dropped it.
Got another good hit a while later, but no hook up. Then another.
Went past some people camping and didnt fish out front of their camp.
100m downstream but still in sight of them I got a good hit.
Cast back to the same spot and boy did I hook up. Got it to the yak fairly quickly, couple of minutes and could see she was a metre long.
Then she woke up and took me 20 minutes to get her tired enough to get the lip grips on. The lip grips were in the box behind my seat so it took some contortionism to get them out.
Then somehow, I lifted her into the yak. A good 20+ kg of fish into my Finn - it's only 60 odd cm wide!
I paddled over to the 3 campers who were watching the whole fight, they took a photo then my camera went flat
I marked her length on the yak and later measured at 1m. I really wish I'd had a proper tape there to get an exact measure. Not bad on 10lb main, 14lb leader and a 2500 reel, 2-5kg rod.
I used the paddle lots to keep her over the sandy side rather than into the snags.





I nearly went home after that, but kept going.
After seeing several yellas follow the big oar-gee lure, I changed to a Binner Spait for the upstream voyage.
This resulted in an almost immediate landing of a yella.
Then a small, ~45cm cod.
Then I had a good hit on a snag. I recast and landed an ~45cm cod. Same spot, I missed two more hits then hooked up. It took me right into the snags. I tried to get it out, but ended up out of the yak, standing on the snag and removing the offending piece of timber. The fish was still on and went ~57cm, would have been a pb 3 hours ago.
I got one more small (~40cm) cod on the way back.
Wow, what a day!

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Well done! You had a great day out by the sound of it.

Cheers, Doug.

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That is a stonker mate, well done! 

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  It doesn't get any better than that 

cheers,
Dave.

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It doesn't get any better than that 

cheers,
Dave.

Yes it does Dave

it would be better if it was my head in the pic.

Noice Craig

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I must disAgree Steve I've seen your head.   Nice fish mate

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Very nice fish mate, and a good size for the Dumaresq, or anywhere else for that matter. Bit of a thrill seeker on the light gear tho.
Cheers,
JD

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It doesn't get any better than that 

cheers,
Dave.

Keep this up craig you will need to get a bigger yak.
cheers
craig

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Since when have ZZTop been into Cod fishing...

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far out what a beast!!!!! 

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Went out again Monday with my brother. I picked up a 76cm, 62cm and 53cm cod and a 35cm yella. Brother got nothing unfortunately.
No pics as I forgot the camera.

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nice fish your getting ..tell me have any had tags youve caught yet...

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Haven't seen any tags.

Would tags indicate stocked fish or just ones that have been caught before?

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Jeez your spanking them out there, loving it!
The cod is still on my list to tick off!