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love st clair , i go there once a year around october , plenty of fish in the home bay both sides of the camp site got my best a 380 on the surface one morning off the bank before getting in the boat. that was a black bat pretty standard bass lure. if you can get to the weed beds blades and heavier soft plastics are good something that you can throw a bit further and drop into the strike zone quick can be good
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Dagger kayaks make a 2 man that you can move the seat and paddle by yourself with heaps of leg room and weight capacity, I am 6'3" which is nothing like your issue but i reckon there is a good 300mm of room in front of my feet when im solo in it, really stable and pretty light considering it is a 2 man. it is called a drifter can get them for about $1500 new i think have had mine for years
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hi Jarvo, i have eaten bass, they are probably the best fresh water fish around here IMO, i only take them out of stocked dams not wild ones, always release wild bass but im sure you could take one or two every now and then
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i have fished lake st clair a few times, have had success in two main ways, either trolling deep diving hardbodies like taylor mades and stump jumpers (but there are heaps of options) or casting at the weed beds with blades or bibless vibes. the good old soft plastic with a spinner works well but you need to up the weight of the jig head to get down into the strike zone. hope this helps
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hi Joe, i head down to batemans bay a bit. have booked a charter for the 29th of december, leaving 6am from the marina. at this stage there are still a few spots. let me know if your interested
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i fish for bass a lot in the warmer times, only time i dont like using clips/snaps is some of my surface lures as it can weigh down the front and upset the "bloop bloop" of the action. but if youre using bibbed lures or sp , i reckon its worth a try , good point by cargo05 still need to retie the snaps on some fresh leader every now and then
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water might be getting a bit too cold for the lake flathead, especially after all the rain last month.
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I go out in a couple of boats mostly off shore, one FG 6metres long, the other is a 6 metre crusher, both are running 150 yammys, the crusher leaves it for dead and uses half the fuel but the owner of the glass boat wouldnt have it any other way as he prefers the ride, i think a big part of it is the type of fishing, we do a lot of drift fishing with a sea anchor , not much trolling so prefer ally but maybe with trolling glass would be more comfortable. bottom line, endless debate that will only confuse you more
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good rule of thumb is one litre per hp plus a reserve tank, but all depends on your trip and boat
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have heard of soap for freshwater crustaceans , might work for the crabs too
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where to go fishing in the clyde river batemans bay
matyg replied to tezzaboys's topic in Fishing Chat
i have fished the bay and river quite a bit, it can be very good for flathead under the bridge at batemans bay but need to get there before the jetskis they seem to have bred like rabbits down that way over the last year, get plenty of whiting and flathead around snapper island if you have the boat to get there. -
got a couple at wisemans over the weekend but only had some old frozen bait, get some fresh mullet of flathead frames
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that first red looks like a good size, well done i was down that way but fished batemans bay best we did was a 475 flathead and a 350 whiting
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i had that same problem with a stingray on my whiting setup down at windang just before christmas, had to run about a hundred metres down the sand flat to get my line on the reel broke off at the leader thankfully.
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have fished the rocks at bawley point a few times, you cross the mouth of that lagoon to get there, it was closed at easter but open last winter, may not have opened up this winter
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they sell them at some fish shops, so someone must eat them. personally I only buy prawns and oysters , if I cant catch the fish , I dont deserve to eat it.
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thanks for the info mate, those dollies will be 70 - 80 cms in a month or two
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could always stick your ear under water and find out
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big fan of the squidgie stealth prawns have nailed a fair few lizards in lake illawarra on the drop. almost gets to a stage where if there is nothing on the drop just reel in and start again.
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Ongoing bass fishing reports Illawarra, NSW
matyg replied to dylrox's topic in Freshwater Fishing Reports
nice work, they sure do get addictive . unlucky you are losing lures like that, sounds like you need to start swimming a bit to get them back. i havn't lost a bass lure this hole season by getting in the water and following the line down. shouldnt be too many crocs in the illawarra -
a mate showed me a pic of a 450mm bass out of lyle taken last week so they are in there, not sure what lure did the damage, have fished lake st clare for bass in deep water and the best lures are called stuckeys, taylor mades and feral catts
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just so you know, there is a restriction on pippies that they are only meant to be used for bait and not taken above 50m from the high tide mark of where they are collected
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scary when you know a four foot bully is only a baby! video sounds great. love my kayak but you are convincing me to stick to the boat!
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nice work, both are edible in fact there is only a handful of species in nsw waters that are inedible. Having said that, we chuck them both back the maori wrasse are too soft and the crimson wrasse are a bit bony, cube the fillets so you can get rid of the bones and put in thai red curry goes alright.
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the type of plastic used in boat skids has a very high thermal expansion rate (known as creep) so if your shed gets hot its not that surprising. might be worth adding a couple more pop rivets with big flat washers one the head to the underside to keep it in place