That’s amazing the big fish was just at your feet the whole time. If you’re on the water long enough sight fishing, your eyes can get trained to see such things. I’ve been wading in rivers sight fishing for trout for 8 hours at a time and at the end of the day, your eyes ‘see’ different things. Sometimes, tall trees ‘wave’ because if your eyes are trained on moving water for an hour straight and you finally look up, stationary vertical items like trees actually ‘wave’ or ‘flow’. Psychedelic! And if your eyes are fixed on moving water surface looking for feeding fish, you will eventually see things others who are not trained can not see even if you point it out to them. It’s cool you were able to play back the video while editing, rewind it, and conclude that a monster fish with its back out of the water was there the entire time. What were we doing in a world before GoPros?!?
believe it or not, we used to pull cod out of creek near Kogan in Qld which flowed up to a natural rock weir. When it rained, it overflowed & we used to get some decent skinny water fish 10 -15 kg..
Thanks for this Jakko, I watch a lot of fishing vids on UA-cam but yours are right up there. Great fishing technique and really enjoyable videos. Thanks again and all the best
OMCod that was awsome to see that big cod try to eat that smaller one. Reminds me of a story my girlfriends dad told me 50 years ago he was one of the last commercial cod fishermen on the Lauchlan River just before they banned commercial inland fishing. He used to set lines on springers (now banned) baited with rabbit, Galahs and ducks. One time he hauled in a massive cod, he reckond was 1.5m, as it got close to the bank it spat out a 60cm code which had taken the bait and swam away. As a kid I remember stopping at the Gooloogong Pub for a countery with the fam and my dad picking me up and shoving my head into the mounted head of a 250lb cod, the publican took a pick and it made it into the Cowra News paper. We had that pick in our scrapbook for year, before it got lost for ever over 20yrs ago. I also remember as a kid fishing Wyangala for eel tail catfish over night and my brother baiting a 200lb hand line with one, determined to catch a massive cold, he fished that line all night while I slept in the back of the ute. Disgusted he didn't catch anything he pulled the line in, only to have that massive cod take the cattie at his feet while he was unbalanced and the strike dumped him in the water, the line burnt his hands and the cod swam off. All I saw from the back of the ute as he yelled out COD, was a massive swirl and him going into the drink.
Wow! I've never seen anything like that in the freshwater here in the US. Those are absolute tanks! Did you even notice that other fish in the upper left of the frame at 21:49? So sick.
Unbelievable. Was in oz 8 years ago. Sick fishing 365 days, i had the time of my Live as a upsessed fisherman. Fresh or Salt water both are incredible in your country,you cant compare it at all with our fishing here. All the best for you and tight lines.Lovely greetings from Germany
Great video, bro. Awesome to see you boys fight those cod in such a beautiful river. Cod are such an amazing fish, they can be caught in lakes/dams, murky water, clear stuff, and everything in between. Yet, they adapt to each scenario and the strategies to caught them might be slightly different in each instance too. Such a great pastime, and always something new to learn. Keep up the good work brother
Wasn't guna comment but, Damb!! Being from the states, I've never seen the gigantic river cod of my dreams. What an awesome fish!! Great job catching. Well done!
dude that's wild! ima have to book a flight over there asap! the way that one fish was just chilling at your feet, looked exactly like a rock or something! so cool!
Barra do that at Nitmiluk Gorge during the wet season. You can bomb every snag all day and never catch a fish. But if you work the rapids you clean up. Yes it’s the cooler, more oxygenated water.
I see you fish the tiny klash a lot with the lip in and tail up if you want to get that bait to “glide” flip the tail down and fish it super fast and with a lot of twitch’s. We call it psycho mode here in the states.
Some quality goodoo and very cool to get them sitting so high in the rapids. It would very interesting to hear your theories on this. I reckon oxygen but river looked to be really healthy you wouldnt think they would be chasing it 🤷♂️
Yep still got the head spinning this one. Rivers is in good condition. My first thought was oxygen as well. But really it was only a handful of the fish up there doing it. Majority would have been sulking in the deep holes. I just feel the active fish were the ones up doing it
@JakkoDavis I've definitely heard of it in the drought when river is super low they all move up into the rapids at night. But who knows maybe they are there more than we realise?? I won't be charging past the store shadow stuff any more anyway 👍
Long fight in warm water which holds less oxygen and then quite a time handling the fish. It's gonna be lucky to survive. Warm water requires extra care and speed of release. Sick fish though and nice vid.
G,day Jacko, mate l enjoy watching your videos they never seem to dissapoint, Murray cod are such an enigmatic fish always full of surprises, just wondering what was the white swimbait Samuel was using and boy those tiny clashes aren't cheap but they look the goods. Cheers.
Since the floods we had last year in central vic man we have found most of our fish including yellas are coming out of the real flowwy stuff , must be sometime to do with oxygen
I’d love to fly over there and fish a bit. Probably won’t really happen for me but still I’m wondering….are crocs an issue on a river like this ? I always kind of assumed you guys would have areas where big crocs are not present.
Do you guys fish big tube baits with fiber weed guards in the shoals? I was thinking of either tubes or big spinnerbaits for smallmouth and muskies in the rivers when I saw what you were fishing. I would be right at home there.
That seems like it would be a pretty bad ass place to break out a fly rod. Probably need something heavy though like a 10 or 12 wt . I’m assuming that’s all freshwater because there’s no Bara? I live in Florida, so still learning your fish.
Cant wait til i getthe opportunity to fish these things.... oh man. I havent seen many clips of guys in boats with the trolling motor on low flippin/pitchin grass, rock, wood, etc. Just like you would for largemouth with a big jig, big thick hook big skirt and a big soft plastic trailer. I have an 8' heavy fast tip that i use for musky , medium to mdm large blades, 3-10oz rubber. Id pair that with my Calcutta250 or daiwa lexa400, 80lb braid to a 50lb Fluorocarbon leader (If required), 1.75-2.5oz mopp jog/rubber skirt and a 5-7" boot tail swimbait as a trailer and/or a r2s x yabbie 6.5" crawfish profile soft plastic. Fish it just as if i was flippin n pitchin isolated cover for largemouth. I cannot imagine the Thunp these thing's would give you when they fully commit to killing n eating that big jig soon as it hits bottom lol THUMP!! Then reel down and let em have it, make sure that big jig hook does its job then absolute all hell breaking lose fighting these things with drag locked down. I csnt imagine how fkng insane that would be.
Hey bloke, I have the tiny klash and swims nothing like that one, I leave the bib in and I’ve changed the tail from facing up/down vice versa with no change … any clue or ideas what’s going on .. cheers bloke
Hey Jakko just wanted to ask where you get your swim baits from. And love the vids man I’m trying to make the same sort of content but keep up the good work mate
Hi I’m not really good at fishing I live in Perth. Do you have any freshwater recommendations kind of close to here which I could catch Murray cod or trout? Thanks so much
That’s amazing the big fish was just at your feet the whole time.
If you’re on the water long enough sight fishing, your eyes can get trained to see such things.
I’ve been wading in rivers sight fishing for trout for 8 hours at a time and at the end of the day, your eyes ‘see’ different things. Sometimes, tall trees ‘wave’ because if your eyes are trained on moving water for an hour straight and you finally look up, stationary vertical items like trees actually ‘wave’ or ‘flow’. Psychedelic!
And if your eyes are fixed on moving water surface looking for feeding fish, you will eventually see things others who are not trained can not see even if you point it out to them.
It’s cool you were able to play back the video while editing, rewind it, and conclude that a monster fish with its back out of the water was there the entire time. What were we doing in a world before GoPros?!?
Hands down the coolest, most exciting Cod video I've seen in years.
To see them sitting and hunting in the rapids like that is insane.
Epic catches💥🤘🏼
Cheers mate was pretty crazy
Never seen cod pulled out of rapids like that. You’re on to something big
A pair of polaroids and a swimbait or spinnerbait and the rapids are yours to play with. Fish trout, carp and cod in this manner for big fish.
believe it or not, we used to pull cod out of creek near Kogan in Qld which flowed up to a natural rock weir. When it rained, it overflowed & we used to get some decent skinny water fish 10 -15 kg..
We get a lot of Yebblies like that. Looking for the high water barriers after rain and fishing the drop into the pool @@schweppes59
Thanks for this Jakko, I watch a lot of fishing vids on UA-cam but yours are right up there. Great fishing technique and really enjoyable videos. Thanks again and all the best
Appreciate it mate 👍
OMCod that was awsome to see that big cod try to eat that smaller one. Reminds me of a story my girlfriends dad told me 50 years ago he was one of the last commercial cod fishermen on the Lauchlan River just before they banned commercial inland fishing. He used to set lines on springers (now banned) baited with rabbit, Galahs and ducks. One time he hauled in a massive cod, he reckond was 1.5m, as it got close to the bank it spat out a 60cm code which had taken the bait and swam away. As a kid I remember stopping at the Gooloogong Pub for a countery with the fam and my dad picking me up and shoving my head into the mounted head of a 250lb cod, the publican took a pick and it made it into the Cowra News paper. We had that pick in our scrapbook for year, before it got lost for ever over 20yrs ago. I also remember as a kid fishing Wyangala for eel tail catfish over night and my brother baiting a 200lb hand line with one, determined to catch a massive cold, he fished that line all night while I slept in the back of the ute. Disgusted he didn't catch anything he pulled the line in, only to have that massive cod take the cattie at his feet while he was unbalanced and the strike dumped him in the water, the line burnt his hands and the cod swam off. All I saw from the back of the ute as he yelled out COD, was a massive swirl and him going into the drink.
21:50 when your handling that cod another one swims off in the top of the screen🎣
Yep that was a carp that one mate, so many in the river at the moment
Awesome visuals seeing those units with their backs out of the water in the shallow runs. Great vision.
21:54 there was another cod that surfaced in the top left of the frame. That river is bustin with cod. That’s amazing!
Wow! I've never seen anything like that in the freshwater here in the US. Those are absolute tanks! Did you even notice that other fish in the upper left of the frame at 21:49? So sick.
insane fishing mate. love the genuine story telling aspect of your vids
Cheers mate
14:22 u can see that bigger fish already sitting right in the current. This is crazy.
Best cod video i have ever watched. Unreal mate
what an amazing place! super cool video guys!!
The way they avoided getting wet in that heat with that first cod you would think that water was acid! 😂
That’s epic fishing and great country well done!
Unbelievable. Was in oz 8 years ago. Sick fishing 365 days, i had the time of my Live as a upsessed fisherman. Fresh or Salt water both are incredible in your country,you cant compare it at all with our fishing here. All the best for you and tight lines.Lovely greetings from Germany
Wow that rapids footage with the cod with its back out the water is insane ! Epic vid
Did u guys notice the fish in the background ? check 21:55. Amazing footage and video guys well done indeed
Unreal.
Mate that was the best Murray cod video I’ve ever watched. I know what I’ll be doing the next time I go down the river 💯
Cheers mate
Crazy session its unreal how big cod will just sit in rapids! Definitely looks like they fight harder in current sick eats jakko!
Yep they’ve definitely got a bit more go in them coming from the fast water Preston
Great video, bro. Awesome to see you boys fight those cod in such a beautiful river. Cod are such an amazing fish, they can be caught in lakes/dams, murky water, clear stuff, and everything in between. Yet, they adapt to each scenario and the strategies to caught them might be slightly different in each instance too. Such a great pastime, and always something new to learn.
Keep up the good work brother
*catch
Mate that was a brilliant video. Pretty sure every bloke who watches this is now cod addicted. Gold!
Awesome Jakko great video mate really enjoyed it thanks
How exciting to have such large aggressive fish in fast river. Love it.
Pretty unreal fishing and some quality fish.A lot more fun than impoundment fishing.Enjoyed the footage Jacko.
Cheers mate 👍
Intro was enough to be pumped for the rest of the video. Good shots mate!!
Wasn't guna comment but, Damb!! Being from the states, I've never seen the gigantic river cod of my dreams. What an awesome fish!! Great job catching. Well done!
What a way to open the season!
What a epic clip mate, one for the memory bank!
It looks like you're catching grouper in a mountain river. Sweet!
I was just about to comment this. Looks like a elongated grouper.
Wow… swimbait catching all great size Murray Cod👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
That was a cracking fish. great stuff
dude that's wild! ima have to book a flight over there asap! the way that one fish was just chilling at your feet, looked exactly like a rock or something! so cool!
That’s some cracking footage mate. Unreal👌🏽
Amazing Video, That's insane that they are sitting in the rapids I can't wait to get out now.
Good Video young man again, lucky you still have toes, biting that close to your feet 😊
Your videos are awesome mate
Heading out tomorrow. This has me fully frothing.
Cheers Jakko 👍🏻
Into em
Looks like many servings of fish & chips!
That’s unreal footage mate. Well done 🤘🏽🤘🏽
Cheers bro
Best cod video iv ever seen . Well done. I share it far and wide. 😎
Such a kickass way to fish
How good never seen anything like this🔥🔥
Awesome video. Those cod are beautiful! Love watching real fisherman who know how to handle and take care of the fish. Well done!
Wow some off the best fishing 8ve seen on youtube well done you guys great work wow.from waza.
Appreciate it mate
Barra do that at Nitmiluk Gorge during the wet season. You can bomb every snag all day and never catch a fish. But if you work the rapids you clean up. Yes it’s the cooler, more oxygenated water.
Insane being able to sight big cod like that sitting in rapids
Another cracking vid
Cheers mate,
Lures turn up all good?
@@JakkoDavis yeah got them mate thankyou legend I’ll be posting pics soon hopefully 👍
Amazing footage mate, can definitely tell those fish haven’t seen a whole lot of pressure.
That spot gets a fair bit of pressure
Nearly pissn myself laughin! "Bro, bro" 😂😂😂
Murray Cod is my number 1 fish on my list to catch. One day ill come to Australia to catch one on a Tiny Klash too.
Almost has the look of a giant us walleye only it actually fights. Very cool
Cracking job boys 👏
The 7:13 "naur" might have been the most Australian naur I have ever heard haha
So bloody epic!!
We have rapids with rock formations where I live in Oregon. Just no Murray Cod. We catch Salmon, Trout and Smallmouth Bass.
When you caught that 70cm did you see the other cod that was beside it. Go to 21:50 and watch the top left. You can see it swimming around
Yea mate that’s just a carp. Plenty of them in the river at the moment
I see you fish the tiny klash a lot with the lip in and tail up if you want to get that bait to “glide” flip the tail down and fish it super fast and with a lot of twitch’s. We call it psycho mode here in the states.
Great video guys. Amazing fishing. Have you tried chasing the MC on the Yarra above the falls?
Cheers mate and no I haven’t myself
sick catch, Any chance you do guides on theses ? I would love to come & fish theses waters
So dope on the k9
So no one else seen the huge cod swim up and check them out while they were landing a fish at 21:45 ?!?
Carp
Some quality goodoo and very cool to get them sitting so high in the rapids. It would very interesting to hear your theories on this. I reckon oxygen but river looked to be really healthy you wouldnt think they would be chasing it 🤷♂️
Yep still got the head spinning this one. Rivers is in good condition. My first thought was oxygen as well. But really it was only a handful of the fish up there doing it. Majority would have been sulking in the deep holes. I just feel the active fish were the ones up doing it
@JakkoDavis I've definitely heard of it in the drought when river is super low they all move up into the rapids at night. But who knows maybe they are there more than we realise?? I won't be charging past the store shadow stuff any more anyway 👍
Sweet man. What are those paddletails?
What a cool trip 👍🏻
Long fight in warm water which holds less oxygen and then quite a time handling the fish. It's gonna be lucky to survive. Warm water requires extra care and speed of release. Sick fish though and nice vid.
G,day Jacko, mate l enjoy watching your videos they never seem to dissapoint, Murray cod are such an enigmatic fish always full of surprises, just wondering what was the white swimbait Samuel was using and boy those tiny clashes aren't cheap but they look the goods. Cheers.
Since the floods we had last year in central vic man we have found most of our fish including yellas are coming out of the real flowwy stuff , must be sometime to do with oxygen
Yep that’s what I was thinking as well mate. Interesting to see if it continues for us or was more of a one off
I’d love to fly over there and fish a bit. Probably won’t really happen for me but still I’m wondering….are crocs an issue on a river like this ? I always kind of assumed you guys would have areas where big crocs are not present.
Do you guys fish big tube baits with fiber weed guards in the shoals? I was thinking of either tubes or big spinnerbaits for smallmouth and muskies in the rivers when I saw what you were fishing. I would be right at home there.
i think that darker cod you hooked up on by the tree was the same one by the rapids from earlier
Been fishing out there for 15 years. Never seen them acting like this. Had the same experience this weekend.
😮 that’s a nice cod
Great action. my kind of fishing.
Hey bud just watched ya vlog, if ya have a look at 21.54 a cod surfaces just in front of you while ya got hold of ya catch with the lip grip.
Hey mate! Sensational fishing! Are u in NSW? The hills you traverse look like the Barossa/Willunga area south of Adelaide!
Im a blud from orange nsw and i love to cod fish its just an inpreations to see u fish even though ur spot are great yhere no good one here
That seems like it would be a pretty bad ass place to break out a fly rod. Probably need something heavy though like a 10 or 12 wt . I’m assuming that’s all freshwater because there’s no Bara? I live in Florida, so still learning your fish.
Big fish, look fun.
Cant wait til i getthe opportunity to fish these things.... oh man.
I havent seen many clips of guys in boats with the trolling motor on low flippin/pitchin grass, rock, wood, etc. Just like you would for largemouth with a big jig, big thick hook big skirt and a big soft plastic trailer. I have an 8' heavy fast tip that i use for musky , medium to mdm large blades, 3-10oz rubber. Id pair that with my Calcutta250 or daiwa lexa400, 80lb braid to a 50lb Fluorocarbon leader (If required), 1.75-2.5oz mopp jog/rubber skirt and a 5-7" boot tail swimbait as a trailer and/or a r2s x yabbie 6.5" crawfish profile soft plastic. Fish it just as if i was flippin n pitchin isolated cover for largemouth. I cannot imagine the Thunp these thing's would give you when they fully commit to killing n eating that big jig soon as it hits bottom lol THUMP!! Then reel down and let em have it, make sure that big jig hook does its job then absolute all hell breaking lose fighting these things with drag locked down. I csnt imagine how fkng insane that would be.
Epic video
Another great video mate! Some nice cod there - especially in the rapids. Look forward to the next video 👍
such a cool video !
Mate don't think yous noticed but at 21:55 in the back left you see a cod swim off, it was sussing out your catch 10 seconds before too😂
Hey bloke, I have the tiny klash and swims nothing like that one, I leave the bib in and I’ve changed the tail from facing up/down vice versa with no change … any clue or ideas what’s going on .. cheers bloke
Where in Aussie is this mate? I've always wanted to make a trip from NZ to try and catch one!
Hey Jakko just wanted to ask where you get your swim baits from. And love the vids man I’m trying to make the same sort of content but keep up the good work mate
Hey mate a get them from all over the place.. a lot out of the US and Japan. Bit of an obsession to find cool new baits that not many throw
@@JakkoDavis okay thank you. And my UA-cam channel is fishing adventures Australia to if you want to cheat that out
What wheedles plastic is that
Incredible!
Oh how I envy you for having these fish... Do you prefer the grip to netting because they go crazy in the net?
Hey mate. What river are you guys fishing? I fish for cod in the Murray and the Goulburn. But I’ve never seen cod up in the hills! Love the video tho!
21:55 there’s a fish cruising just out from you
Where was this at?
This is crazy footage jacko!!
What lip grips were those?
Cheers mate. They are called the original fish grip. Find em on eBay. They are a US product and the best I’ve found by far
Awesome drop bud🤙quick question did you draw a winner from your last video with the q&a??
Cheers mate, yea winner was announced over a week back. Put posts up on here and Insta
i dont want exact locations or anything, but is this river in the New England country in NSW? looks familiar to my fishing grounds but not sure.
Hi I’m not really good at fishing I live in Perth. Do you have any freshwater recommendations kind of close to here which I could catch Murray cod or trout?
Thanks so much
Well done jacko
21:43 ... one fish in the background waiting for his mate to come back in
Hi, for example if I came to Australia for cod how can I organize myself and do I need a fishing permit Hi from Italy
Some nice fish boys.
Went to get some jerky but your code won't work. Says it's invalid.
thanks mate. Just sorted the code out sorry mate, it should be right to go now. Appreciate the support