It is Spring 2022 this season there has been plenty of water around meaning the rivers are dirty, which so happens to be an ideal circumstance for the LED technology that is contained inside every Balista lure.For trout opening this year my good mate Spider and I planned a mission in the upper reaches of the Goulburn river. Our plan...
The Balista hunchback has long been a favourite surface lure of mine and has account for many of my Big cod! The hunchback comes into its own in the smaller rivers I have found. Rivers like the Darling, Edwards and Gwydir are some of my favourite spots to cast the hunchback. However, any and every river that holds cod is...
By Colby Lesko Copeton dam or as its affectionally called by anglers ‘the big fish factory’ is an amazing place to visit as a Murray cod angler. The dam holds a massive number of large meter plus Murray cod and is the perfect environment for large cod. The dam built an amazing reputation years ago as the surface capital of cod...
Targeting Murray cod in their home waters in the Murray river is without a doubt one of my favourites types of fishing. I think there are few fish that provide such a challenge with many angler devoting their whole lives to catching them. I’ll run you through some of the tips and tactics that I find successful while fishing the...
It’s been interesting watching the take up in fishing for bigger Cod in southern Impoundments over winter. Slowly but surely the word has leaked out in regard to the opportunity’s that present in places other than Copeton Dam in northern NSW. Not so long ago during the depths of winter on dams such as Wyangala, Burrenjuck, and Blowering you could...
The Goulburn river starts south of Eildon around a little town called Woods point, from here it travels 654 kilometres through Lake Eildon, Alexandra, Seymour, Nagambie, Murchison, Shepparton to the Murray river around Echuca. The upper reaches of the Goulburn offer brilliant trout fishing, as you get down to Seymour Murray Cod become more prevalent, and from Murchison down the...
With my first bub due later in the year I thought it was about time I pulled my finger out and came up to Darwin for a few days to try out the Balista’s. I’ve been doing a sales run from my hometown of Shepparton up to Cairns twice a year for the last 3 years. The first year was...
The attributes I love most about bass is their aggressive nature and brutal pulling power, especially for their size. On a recent trip to Port Macquarie I was fishing with a good mate James Newton, the plan was to walk the banks and fish this pristine river that James had access to. The river we fished was more of a...
Twice a year I make the drive from Shepparton Victoria up to Cairns to do a sales run to our Queensland barra store. I’ve always got plenty of fishing tied in with the trip, this time I had organized a couple of days fishing with Merv Hughes and Lindsay Dobe on Peter Faust dam. (more…)
Upon arriving on a recent trip to Lake Windermere we were confronted with low water temperatures and a super tough bite. It’s well known that Golden Perch are easiest to locate and catch when the water temperature is in the 18-22 degree range. When you start getting down to 14 degrees its just as challenging as trying to push start...
