Ideal conditions mean cod fishing at its all-time best
BORDERS RIVERS
THE cod fishing is at its all-time best right now and the condition of the Dumaresq and Macintyre rivers is almost perfect.
The water is clear and fresh with a high pressure and cold mornings.
It’s all lined up to have some of the best cod fishing in years with many big cod landed again this week after last week seeing numerous metre fish.
The good fishing has continued and spinnerbaiting and casting timber lures around the snags has again produced big numbers of good cod and yellowbelly.
It’s definitely worth a trip over the coming weeks.
COPETON DAM
WITH all the talk of cod around, Copeton is again the most popular destination for keen cod anglers with the big fish continuing to be landed every day at the lake.
With the cooler weather, the early mornings have been the best bite time by far.
Fishing up in the shallow bays with swimbaits and surface lures has been a crazy way to catch metre-plus cod and this is the draw card for this lake.
This lake has been producing cod year-round but the coming weeks look exceptional.
COOBY DAM
OUR closest lake is still producing some good yellowbelly and smaller cod throughout the day.
Fishing out from main lake points with saltwater yabbies and ZX Blades have been the most productive methods.
Trolling shallow-diving hard bodies close to the weed edges has also produced some quality fish and if you can secure yourself some live shrimp you should boat a few fish.
CRESSBROOK DAM
CRESSY has been fishing at its best for a good while with good-size bass schooling up in the lake out from main lake points up both arms of the lake.
Toilet-block point and Eagles Nest have been a couple of popular locations but it will be more about locating the fish on your fish finder.
Once located all sorts of deep vibes have worked well like blades, spoons and tailspinners.
Using a very slow roll technique along the bottom has worked best and again if you can secure some live shrimp they will almost certainly boat some fish.
LESLIE DAM
SIMILAR fishing continues at Leslie with the smaller fish dominating the bite around the edges.
Most land-based anglers or people fishing close to the edges have been catching large numbers of small
yellowbelly and silver perch, mostly on live shrimp, worms and saltwater yabbies while the lure angler has been using ZX Blades with a fast wind retrieve.
The odd bigger fish that has been caught has been out in the deeper water in the old creek bed.
Locating them on you fish finder and again using shrimp, yabbies or ZX Blade.
MORETON BAY
A LOT of the year Moreton
Bay can be a lot of hard work and very little fun but winter is the exception with good-size snapper and whiting around the islands,
Personally I fish Mud and Peel islands using soft plastics or pilchards around the drop-offs where the reefy bottom drops into around 20ft of water.
For these over-fished areas early morning and late afternoon sees the best bite times although good fish can be caught all day.