Hey mate, I won't be posting where this one is. If you are looking for your first bass have a look at the fisheries website and check for rivers they have stocked with bass, there's lots of rivers they have stocked now and these rivers are generally have the most fish now. Its is probably worth waiting for things to warm up again in spring or summer before having a go, it can be quite tough through winter

Thanks mate, they really pack on the size once they get over 40cm

Thanks mate, Gippsland really is a great part of the world

I can't believe its taken me so long to fish some of this stuff. Think the season up there is pretty well done until summer after this rain though

Hey mate it is a spinwright grunta you can get them directly from spinwright. Quite a few stores stock them too

Just tie the lure on, this one I added some weight to the lure to change the sink rate but that isn't necessary

Thanks mate, yeah running the garmin livescope

Apparently they just picked a name they liked and didn't know the connotations 😂

Singles is a good idea, I'm going to try different combinations at home and see what I like best for it. Think a lighter front hook will help too

Thanks man! Theres some more bass stuff coming up soon too

@@HawkesyFishing Amazing!!

Thanks mate!

Thanks mate! It's a murray cod from Australia

It sure is

The 130mm size whopper plopper

Yeah it went nuts, punched well above its weight during the fight too

Thanks mate! Would love to get a largemouth on topwater one day

Haha thanks mate, the bots are pretty quick on the shorts for some reason. It's awesome to see so many trouties out and about and some real nice ones as well

@@HawkesyFishing pretty keen to tick cod off the bucket list. We’re in Gippsland and mostly target Bass and trout. Haven’t done a cod trip yet but we’re trying to figure out a bit of a plan.

If you head up over the ranges from gippy you are into some great areas for cod. I've been heading out your way a bit for bass the last month or so

I do a bit of everything with trout just depends what I'm feeling on the day

Hey mate I got it from Tacklewarehouse.com it's an American site so shipping can be pretty steep to get things to aus

@@HawkesyFishing thanks mate! These things sound sick!

I don't think they sell these in aus, need to buy them online from america

@@HawkesyFishing what brand is it? there's a few out there!

@@CodPoacher the original river2sea whopper plopper

@@HawkesyFishing sweet thanks mate, gunna have to give it a go. love ya vids!

Thanks mate, always a good day when you come home with more lures than you started with. I've had this one for a year or so now and finally got around to fishing it this season

Hey mate, its a Sony a7iii

Cod are definitely better than having carp introduced!

Thanks mate! Only the one session but looks like they go pretty well on the cod

@@HawkesyFishing did you upgrade the hooks? Those fish were going pretty hard.

@@DougKelly2828 Just the stock trebles on that one

The market over there is huge so I think companies are able to put a lot more effort into r&d for lures for that market. Definitely get some cool and unique lures from it

I had the same thought so decided to buy one to test it out. Love the hobie for fishing off, much easier than a paddle kayak in the rivers

Wont be long now and you'll be out there cathing fish off yours

It wasn't letting that whopper plopper past it, good to see some bugger TC getting around too

Thanks mate!

Thanks mate, certainly found the better quality of fish there

Hey mate, these are murray cod from Australia. You can eat them but most choose to put them back

yep

Its a duo realis kyogre

the reel has drag, the first fish I caught took some

Yes, they have been able to for quite a few years now

Its a trout cod

Are they a good eating fish?