where to go fishing in the clyde river batemans bay

[tezzaboys]

Hi there heading to batemans bay at the start of march and was going to hire a boat and go fishing in the clyde river was looking for some hot spot please.

[bessell1955]

I have spent many a day fishing between NELLIGEN and Shallow Crossing and have never caught a decent feed. I do not know why but I can say it just has not happened for me.

[Paikea]

I have spent many a day fishing between NELLIGEN and Shallow Crossing and have never caught a decent feed. I do not know why but I can say it just has not happened for me.

A lot of water skiers play in that area, could that be the problem?

Has anyone hired a canoe from the guy at the crossing and fished upstream? Must be Bass up there surely. The river looks very pretty there.

Cheers

Paikea

[matyg]

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.

[tezzaboys]

ok well will try to get to the bridge before the skier get there and will try my luck

[bessell1955]

Above Shallow Crossing there are good spots to catch bass.

[Berleyguts]

Ron Calcutt filmed a TV series called "River To The Sea" back in the 70s I think. It followed the Clyde River all the way from up above Shallow Crossing down to Batemans Bay and out around the Tollgate Islands. Some great fishing. Worth watching if you can get hold of a copy.

Baz

[bluewater188]

Same as the lads above mate I have never had any luck myself in the river. Plenty of flatties in the bay though.

I ran into an old bloke when I was coming in from the tollgates one day and he had been up river. He was all too happy to show me his bucket of fish (bakers flour bucket 20lt!) which consisted of good sized bream that you would have trouble fitting in a frypan and a big lizard that was around the 60cm mark. He was anchoring his tinny up right next to oyster leases and dropping a little bit of berley over the side. he said you had to get within a few metres of the lease and drop your bait down next to the woodwork so the bream could dart out and have a crack at it. Too much water between you and the shelter of the leases and they apparently get too shy. Makes sense I suppose.

He said the trick was to pull up where the tide was pushing water under the leases where the bream are, so basically on a bend and work the top (preferably) or bottom of the tides until slack tide. This makes the berley move where it can get fish interested and moving into the area your bait is.

Of course being an old bloke with a ton of experience he had a special recipe in the bait department that he showed me - chicken breast that was soaked in tuna oil and the rolled in bread crumbs. Seemed like a nightmare from a cooking show to me but he swore by it and his bucket was pretty full of fish that appeared to like the mix. The bread crumbs had me fascinated as I wouldn't expect them to stay on but it dawned on me that they would be like a little bit of tuna soaked berley in a cloud around your bait - irresistible to a bream I reckon.

I had a crack once out of my kayak but was didn't have berley so no luck. Also fished plastics because I thought I knew better.

Anyway might be some stuff in here that people can try.

Cheers

Nige

[Tulz]

Depends on what you're after buy here's a few spots that deliver for me. Jewies at the bridges, chinamans point and along the right hand side of the river as you approach big island. There's other Jewie spots but you can't have them haha. Just look for a depth of around 6 metres with a little bit of structure. I've found flathead all through the river and the bream can be found easily around the areas with rocky shorelines or as mentioned by someone else, the oyster leases. There is a long straight stretch leading up to little island in about 4 metres that I've done really well on the Whiting. Yakkas can be burleyed up at the big island Jewie spot I mentioned and at the back of big island. Good luck and I may see you on the water as I'm down there late Feb early march.

[tezzaboys]

Same as the lads above mate I have never had any luck myself in the river. Plenty of flatties in the bay though.

I ran into an old bloke when I was coming in from the tollgates one day and he had been up river. He was all too happy to show me his bucket of fish (bakers flour bucket 20lt!) which consisted of good sized bream that you would have trouble fitting in a frypan and a big lizard that was around the 60cm mark. He was anchoring his tinny up right next to oyster leases and dropping a little bit of berley over the side. he said you had to get within a few metres of the lease and drop your bait down next to the woodwork so the bream could dart out and have a crack at it. Too much water between you and the shelter of the leases and they apparently get too shy. Makes sense I suppose.

He said the trick was to pull up where the tide was pushing water under the leases where the bream are, so basically on a bend and work the top (preferably) or bottom of the tides until slack tide. This makes the berley move where it can get fish interested and moving into the area your bait is.

Of course being an old bloke with a ton of experience he had a special recipe in the bait department that he showed me - chicken breast that was soaked in tuna oil and the rolled in bread crumbs. Seemed like a nightmare from a cooking show to me but he swore by it and his bucket was pretty full of fish that appeared to like the mix. The bread crumbs had me fascinated as I wouldn't expect them to stay on but it dawned on me that they would be like a little bit of tuna soaked berley in a cloud around your bait - irresistible to a bream I reckon.

I had a crack once out of my kayak but was didn't have berley so no luck. Also fished plastics because I thought I knew better.

Anyway might be some stuff in here that people can try.

Cheers

Nige

ok thanks very much will try it out

[tezzaboys]

Depends on what you're after buy here's a few spots that deliver for me. Jewies at the bridges, chinamans point and along the right hand side of the river as you approach big island. There's other Jewie spots but you can't have them haha. Just look for a depth of around 6 metres with a little bit of structure. I've found flathead all through the river and the bream can be found easily around the areas with rocky shorelines or as mentioned by someone else, the oyster leases. There is a long straight stretch leading up to little island in about 4 metres that I've done really well on the Whiting. Yakkas can be burleyed up at the big island Jewie spot I mentioned and at the back of big island. Good luck and I may see you on the water as I'm down there late Feb early march.

thanks for the tips and yes might see ya out there