HOOK, LINE & SINKER
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WORDS ANDREW HART
In more than 20 years of Hook, Line and Sinker the crew has never officially joined the metre club—until now! Andrew Hart tells the story of one that didn’t get away.
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n fishing there are many dreams that keep anglers going back to the water time and time again, even when it means going home empty handed. Catching your fish of a lifetime is at the top of that bucket list—like securing a 10-pound trout, a 1000-pound marlin or, in our case, a metre-long Murray Cod. It’s a true dream fish—much desired, but never actually realised.
Hook, Line and Sinker has for many years had a love-hate relationship with Murray Cod. These big Aussie natives are easily one of the hardest fish to catch when you’re filming. They seem to taunt us, time and time again. We’ve spent many long, cold days and thousands of casts not even looking like catching one. But that’s cod fishing, and despite its challenges, there’s a special
breed of anglers out there who only fish for cod. And I can understand why. There’s just something about them. They can grow to an enormous size. They are found far and wide throughout the Murray-Darling system, and when you finally get a hook up, all the effort seems worth it—even if they don’t really fight very well anyway! This season on Hook, Line and Sinker
The Murray Cod whisperer, Kyle Dalrymple, and the newest inductee into the one-metre club, Andrew Hart.
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