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you may not have time to go there, but there's an excellent charter out of dundee beach. It's a bit of a drive but you get good offshore action and river action - plus there's a (modest) fishing lodge there. We cleaned up on spaniards and small ish barra there last thime, but saw some big jews and barra.

mate the best catch you'll have there is cheap tackle!! Make sure you're bringing heaps of luggage, stuff is cheap over there now that the dollar is where it is.

Well done, very jealous of your results! I never do as well as that in the rivers up there.

must have been snowing

i hear the rain they had there has made it pretty tough.

mate, I'm about to buy a 6500 myself....to save you a buck, you can order them from the US for $119 (plus 15 or so for p&h) - with our dollar so good, it's a bargain.

I am very jealous of your success...I haven't had too much luck in the rivers up there.

top work!!! Lyell is firing! Shame the pics didn't make it....

mate, after that trout you caught the other week, why are you looking elsewhere? I've been fossicking around obes for years, we've never seen one like that in the rivers.

well done!!! I too had a birthday trout session, dropped a nice one on the shores of lake oberon, that's about it. It was about a metre from shore, took one jump in the air, threw the hooks and that was that. Also lost another much smaller one in a river near by. That's an amazing fish from the river in particular. You're obviously a lot better than me!

This does happen - on the weekend we had big chunks taken out of our fresh yellow tail (8 of them) by a single squid. I'd imagine he'd have a go at live ones too - same spot each time, just behind the head.

I was out at tcd the other day, and saw a fishy looking dam near by - just further towards portland. Has anyone fished it? Is it fishable?

how did you go? I was up there over the break and it looked like beautiful trout country.

I'm scheduled to go to lake macquarie tomorrow....bit worried about the weather...

saw the post on Lyell, anywhere else firing at the moment?

I recognise that boat harbour too! My dad is up there almost every weekend!

ljepa slika bobane!

and rug up! It's snowing down there!

Check the Cox's, Kowmung and Wollondilly. They all have very remote sections that aren't off limits. They're all pretty swollen at the moment though, give it a month at least for them to clear up.

There are open rivers now, you just have to be prepared to walk and camp!

We went there the other weekend and caught one small one. The Kowmung is quite a river! We'll be doing the big hike down one of these weekends.

unfortunately not....it'll be shore based... was thinking some bankside river stuff. Not quite the upper clarence but I hope worth the trip.

Somehow I managed to convinve the to go on a road trip over xmas stopping at Barrington tops and eventually up to the Walcha/Armidale area. Does anyone have suggestions for fishing locations up there? you hear all sorts of things about the trout and bass, but I haven't been able to get a straight answer, particularly about this time of year. We were also keen to do some camping. Thanks

"Salmon after Salmon".... wow. We were in Pittwater Tues and saw schools of massive salmon and threw every lure we had at them and they wouldn't take one! They even swam under the boat. What's the secret??? We'd love just one!

Guys, Thanks for the replies, sorry I haven't replied, I have been on holidays and offline for a week. It is truly beautiful countryside! Even more remote than the Colo, which we went to earlier this year. To answer the question, it was definately not a designated trout stream. Like was mentioned, I think it is because of its inaccessibility and the fact that the fish are coming upstream from Warragamba dam, where they can't be caught. Apparently at the moment there are significant sand banks at the mouth of the coxs and wollondilly which stop this migration. Allan, I am not sure if you are correct. We camped opposite the Orange cliff (bluff). In regards to the female companion, she was no ordinary girl! Cara could keep up with us and was quite commendable! At that time of year, your daylight hours don't go on much past 5 so you need to keep moving.