Bassin the Deua New Year Eve

[kingiemaster]

Howdy

I go down to Moruya at least twice a year to see my mother and always make the trip up the Deua looking for bass in my favourite holes.

Problem is that there only so many places you can you access the river without some serious bush bashing.

So this year I took the canoe.

I've been meaning to do it for sometime with the idea being that I could walk it across the shallow crossings.

For another first, I took my missus as she had never been up there before and I figured a human Minn kota (didnt want to fish) could prove useful.

So we launched at Bakers Flat and paddled down river.

It was a reasonably hot day and being peak holiday time a lot of people had been swimming in the main hole, which is only up to 8 feet deep, so I wasn't hopeful.

So I pushed on went through the first creek bed and came across this

then this

It's not as deep as it looks but deep enough on the right hand side in the shade amongst the fallen trees.

Sure enough my first cast into the timber snares a nice little bass.

Next cast and I get another one.

Next cast, the lure gets caught in a tree.

Tried various lures after that with no joy.

We'd left the 8 year old with my mother and were only meant to be gone for "not long".

So having achieved what I wanted to achieve I called it a day paddled back up to the main hole and went for a swim.

A couple of days later I went back by myself with some more time up my sleeve to push further down stream past this second set of shallows but the water following it wasn't particularly deep or fishy.

The next set of shallows was too thick with trees and or simply shallow (dry)to walk the canoe through so I headed back casting a range of lures in the likely spots to no avail.

Certainly is beautiful part of the world but not sure I would call it a bass mecca as you just cannot fish enough of it. Might have to get friendly with some of the locals at the Saturday markets and see if can access private property.

Cheers

Dave

[bharris]

Top report mate top work

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[Centrepin]

Really good post.

I have wondered about the Deua, when trail bike riding down there.

We just need more time to fish. Too many spots