🚨 RIVER DRIFTS, BLOWN TRAILERS & FISHING 🚨

Just before Christmas we squeezed in one of those river drifts… you know the ones that make you look over your shoulder thinking “surely this isn’t allowed.”

📊 44 fish in 6½ hours.

Absolute mayhem.

The highlight? Without question the most bizarre eat we’ve ever seen — a mid-70s cod climbing halfway out of the river to eat a lure off the bank. Still not convinced it was real, but it’s burned into our brains forever.

Of course… Codtales rules apply:

⚡ Electric motor decided it had had enough

🛑 Trip ended early

🛞 Lost a wheel AND hub off the axle

🚤 Boat trailer log-slated its way 17km into Binda

We also had:

🎣 A tough river session with Mick Hayden, still boating six fish for the morning when it was proper grindy

🎣 A trip with Daddy Marto, only one fish on a Lighthouse Diver, but it turned into an elite arvo — a few beers, soaking bait and talking absolute nonsense

🎣 A quick fish with Nick & Ivy — 10 cod for the morning, and Ivy landed a cracking cod all by herself (outfishing blokes twice her size as usual)

Now we’re staring down the barrel of State of Origin Teams Fishing Australia in just five weeks 😳

Dam fish… what are you going to do?

Meanwhile at Codtales HQ:

💡 New neon sign pumping

📱 TikTok lives rolling

🎤 Portable mic setup dialled

✈️ Locked in for Lake Monduran, QLD

🎣 Plan to catch up with the one and only Nate Archer

River chaos, big fish, busted gear, good mates and better yarns — this is what Codtales is built on.

🎙️ Episodes coming.

🍻 Beers cold.

🎣 Lines tight.

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