Few challenges keep an angler on the water like trying to land a metre-plus Murray cod on every colour of a lure. Working through the ten colours of the new Spinright Fluff Ball Elite, the angler behind the Let's Go Fishing channel put a serious dent in the list across one drizzly winter morning.
The oversized 220mm plastic earned its keep, tempting a string of big cod — among them a fish he put at roughly 130cm and others in the 120cm class. "That thing has got to be pushing 130," he said of his best. Four colours were ticked off before work called him away, with a couple of giants pulling hooks along the way.
His standout tip concerned conditions. On cold, overcast, drizzly days, he reckons the usual dawn-and-dusk "prime time" matters far less. "If you can find the fish, they will just eat on days like this, especially during winter," he said, where bright, hot days can shut big cod down. Translation: grey and wet means you can fish productively all day.
He also shared his one lure tweak — adding a swivel, ring and short wire leader to drop the rear treble back behind the skirt, which cuts wind tangles, eases stress on the hook hold as a fish rolls, and rides more snag-proof through timber. His outfit was a Samaki C12 rod, a Zing 300 baitcaster, 50lb braid and a 40lb leader, with Garmin LiveScope doing the spotting. Four colours down, six to go.