The Macquarie River Cod are well and truly on the bite, as water temperatures plummet with every shortening day. Keen Dubbo anglers Richard Tegart and Matt Wright found out just how good the fishing is at present, after they had a great spinnerbait casting session on the Macquarie this week. Matt caught and released one solid legal fish in the kayak after it scoffed a heavy twin spin style spinner close to a large timber snag not far from Dubbo.
I was also lucky enough to manage two nice cod on the cast this week, one being a solid Trout Cod, and the other a Murray, which were caught on an AusSpin ˝ ounce Cod Botheror in purple and black. Fishing the pool end of running stretches worked well, with the actively feeding Cod sitting at the bottom of the river’s so called “food conveyer belt”.
Working a variety of depths with the lure, and casting into the running water and allowing the Codbother Lure to move over the shelf into the deeper water found the Cod sitting in an obvious ambush point. Fitted with an ultra sharp stinger hook, only one fish managed to get away after it hit like a freight train and turned sharply into the current to make its escape. Willow and timber lined runs proved by far the most productive.