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The weather forecast for the South coast was pretty crappy for today and for once they got it right, thunderstorms came through last night which forced us to cancel the original plan to head upstream for some Bass. The road up to the freshwater reaches gets a bit slippery after a good downpour and given we only had 2wd vehicles we decided not to go and risk getting bogged. The rain had eased off to a light drizzle so i met up with Patwah and Koich from AKFF at 8am just outside of Batemans bay so they could follow me up to the chosen launch site on the Clyde river near Nelligen.
We were all on the water at around 8:30am and got straight into it, we all chose slightly different locations with Koich fishing the Mangrove lined edges, Paddy fished the edges of the weedbed while i drifted over the top of a shallow weedbed casting an Atomic Hardz lure that i shaved the bib down to make it into a shallow diving HB. It worked a treat, i was the first to hookup after about 10 minutes of casting to a nice little bream of 25cm. Im very happy with how the modified lure worked so i will do a few more of them now!
Every few minutes i was getting Bream, but all of them the same size, i swear the same fish must have been following me around. After the 5th 25cm Bream i decided to try the SP's on the edges of the weedbeds into slightly deeper water to see if i could find any of the bigger bream but to no avail. A few dropped flathead close to the yak and some decent taps but still no decent bream to be found anywhere so back over to the shallow weedbed to pick up where i left off catching more just legal bream and after and hour or so of constant casting i finally found a slightly bigger fish that went a whole 28cm!!
Eventually met back up with Paddy who had landed a decent flathead and had a few dropped fish, and Koich who unfortunately had one of those days where nothing went right, losing fish to broken trebles etc. We were all pretty well soaking wet by this stage so we started to make our way back slowly, i looked over to see where everyone else was only to see Paddy with a loaded up rod, and just as i pulled my line in and got the camera ready the hook pulled and the fish swam free. That was the last sign of any fish for the day...
The weather could have been nicer and the fish a bit bigger but its always good to get out, so hopefully next time it might be better.
