Donna Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 Hi everyone. Im heading to Chain Valley Bay next month with my boat for a couple of days to fish. Does anyone have any ideas about spots worth trying and is it worth taking my crab nets with me. thanks for any advise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelm Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 No idea where that place is, can you give us a hint? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XD351 Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 (edited) I lived there for a year in 2007- nice place ! link to dpi map https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/680450/Map-lakemacquarie.pdf Below I have added a few spots I used to fish for flathead usually using prawns or half pilchard as bait . ( red circles) I never put traps for crabs out as it was illegal back then but is permitted now - link to post on here about it if I were going to try for a crab I would do it in the yellow circles as this is an extensive shallow area with lots of weed and not much current . If you want to fish the main inlet channel ( Swansea to the ocean ) stick to the last and first hour or so either side of a tide change as the curren rips through here hard . Please don’t swim in the lake unless it is in a caged area or shallow with good visibility as there are some humongous sharks in there - especially around pulbar island. I used to swim in the clear shallow water around the islands in the main channel at Swansea . There are two tackle stores there - one on the south west side of Swansea bridge and another at marks point ( this one has a YouTube channel also that does a weekly fishing report every Friday ) sorry can’t name them on here due to site rules - they will be easy to find by doing a search on the internet. Unless they have updated it the ramp at chain valley bay is only very small - I wouldn’t want to launch anything bigger than 4.5 m tinny there . Sometimes I could catch poddy mullet at the ramp also . Edited February 22 by XD351 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XD351 Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 25 minutes ago, noelm said: No idea where that place is, can you give us a hint? It is the southern end of Lake Macquarie Noel. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donna Posted February 22 Author Share Posted February 22 XD351 thanks bit we will probably be staying with the bay and not going into the main lake area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsswordfisherman Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Welcome to the forum. Great info from the members While you wait have a look at the search engine. It will bring up older posts https://community.deckee.com/search/?q="Chain valley bay"&updated_after=any&sortby=relevancy&search_and_or=or Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickmarlin62 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 The bay to northeast between cvalley nth and summerland pt anchor in 2.5 mtrs and burley fish floating baits of prawn pilly or mullet strips bream galore 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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