fishing the belingen area

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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