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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: mootly53 on October 27, 2010, 12:56:03 PM
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planed a trip at xmas , was wandering if anyone has fished there
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If you have a Yak or Canoe and want to catch and release Bass, I may be able to point u in the right direction.
Pete
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i grew up on the orara river (19 years) and pretty well know it like the back of my hand (if you want i can point you in the right direction there), but the bellinger, i would be looking towards brownlees lane. good bream, bass and occasional jack. even better bull sharks that steal bass. good time of the year to fish this system, but if you get the chance, get out to warrell creek, the best of the bass fisheries around there in the past couple of years, all surface too.
cheers
kurt
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Hey Kurt, heard the first cicadas earlier in the week, got a little fizz in the blood.
Pete
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hey pete
if you can get some of those tiemco soft shell cicada's, that is what they cannot resist. good to see an early cicada season, it only means one thing...... surface bite. coming down soon for a couple of weeks, chuch the barra in the dams and im out of here. looking forward to some awesome bassin.
cheers
kurt
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Will do,Give me a hoy if ya wanna hock up for a paddle.
Pete
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hey pete
if you can get some of those tiemco soft shell cicada's, that is what they cannot resist. good to see an early cicada season, it only means one thing...... surface bite. coming down soon for a couple of weeks, chuch the barra in the dams and im out of here. looking forward to some awesome bassin.
cheers
kurt
Do u know anywhere in OZ u can purchase the Tiemco's
Pete
A bit later................Found them at Mo Tackle, got a couple to try, they look the goods.
Pete
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they are the goods. fished with s morgan with them in the upper tweed and mate they were probably the best bream surface lure going around. also try the stick minnows, both in the floating and sinking. quick rip and pause. never seen a bass hit a lure harder.. awesome fun. enjoy.
cheers
kurt
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Sorry i havn't been on line for a while , with all this rain were having i havn't had much luck getting out for a fish . got a new reel off ebay and finally tried it out last saturday at the bottom of clarrey hall and caught a nice fat 38cm bass on a surface lure . The reel is a daiwa sol 2000 with 6lb braid and 9lb leader and a berkley dropshot 6ft 6 rod .
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What river are you planing to fish?
Bellinger, Gleniffer/nevernever or Kalang?
the upstream side of gordenville crossing is a nice stretch of water but its best fished with a yak or canoe, its a few kms out of Bello on the main road heading towards Thora and Dorrigo
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hey mootley,
that looks like a great little Bass tool. I fished Clarrie a little while back and we got around 20 up to 41cm
JD
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Hey Farma
whats it like down there at the mo. I was in contact with a Coff's lad about a month ago as I wanted to fish the bello next week.
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at the moment it looks good
water is clear, river is full, cicadas are out
just have to time it in between the showers
good old bello weather lol
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farma are you a bello local?
kh
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yeah mate
i live on the kalang river not the bellinger though
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Hey chaps
anywhere you can roll a swag out for the night?
PM if you like. ;)
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I'll be in Bellingen for a week from Monday, takin the yak to explore some of the upper Bellinger river.
Brad
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Just got back last night , fished up past thora on monday , it was a little dirty with all the rain and a bit hairy in the canoe but we only managed 1 bass , 4 herring and a big ugly fishtail catfish . The mate said it was the bigest catfish he had ever seen. We decided to go to Toonenba , got there monday night in the rain , woke up tuesday morning still raining and had our first look at the lake and it looked beautiful except for all the dirty water pouring into it , could see the fish smashing insects off the surface but couldn't get them to take our lures . everybody was packing up and leaving so we did the same as we didn't want to get stuck there , just as well because as we were leaving kyogle to go back to coffs the road was under water , so we had to go via lismore . Im now back in Brisbane , very disapointed but keen to try them when we have a couple of weeks of sunshine . Thanks to everybody for your advise :thumbsup :thanks
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I launched just above the bridge in Bellingen the other day but the rain made the river not very fishable. I went for a drive up past Thora but couldn't find any decent launch spots. All the bridge crossings I checked don't really have any parking area to leave a vehicle.
Where did u launch your canoe up past Thora? How far out did you go?
Brad
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I will get some pics of the area up shortly people.
Did a sneaky there two days ago.
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Brad , i think it was about 17k past the thora turn off , one of the bridges has a closed sign across road . We parked next to the signs and drifted down to the next bridge and one of us walked back and drove back down to the canoe . There were a few rapids we walked through plus a small section we had to carry the canoe through the bush as the water was too fast but if the water level drops it would be a great spot as the water was still pretty clear
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Sounds like fun.
We went for a drive out to never never creek yesterday. Beautiful swimming spots but not ideal for kayak fishing. Very shallow with lots of flow. Crystal clear water tho & would be a hoot in sit in's to ride down the rapids.
Might post some pics later.
Brad
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Bellinger River pics
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Never Never Creek