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Fishing spots at Gramps and Araps 11-Dec-2008 At 5:06:05 PM Cookie

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>I've heard of the locals up this way tieing budgies onto the line as live
>bait for big cod. Works a treat or so I am told. Anything that will make
>a fuss on top of the water will attract a big cod.

i dont think i could do that to a budgie :(

>I've used a fairly big live yellow belly as bait and caught a huge cod,
>28 pound from memory. Biggest cod I've caught is 35 pound and a metre long.
>Tasty eating too, they all taste the same no matter how big they get unlike
>yellow belly, they taste like mud. I caught a prehistoricly huge yellow
>belly once, tasted like crap.

hrm, so smaller = sweeter with golden perch? perhaps i should just go for the cod, i'd be tickled pink to catch a metre long anything!