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This website was created to house internal and external drafts containing reports associated with the art of angling and our Kayak Fishing Adventures. Based in and around cities and locations throughout Australia, these tales of experience, knowledge and info are for all to enjoy and all content, text and images contained herein are deemed strictly copyright ( (C) 2006 - 2011, all rights reserved ).
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Just returned from seven days kayak fishing Bemm River and its surrounds, great company and an even better campsite. The angling was tougher than expected with the inlet well over nominal water levels. Apparently in November 2011 there were massive periods of inclement weather resulting in the mouth shutting/filling.
Water clarity was murky at best and those 90cm weed beds were well over 2m deep.
I witnessed some pretty cool stuff with some apex fish absolutely smashing the smaller residents, hooking and losing a few in the process. I also caught a couple of cracking Bream and some decent E.P's but other species didn't want to play lure ball. Chasing mainly Tailor proved difficult compared to last year's rewards but the ones I did land weren't kept for the table. Most had bite marks almost clean through and as savage as it seems I'm not quite sure they were bigger specimens of the same genus.
The bite marks seemed too elongated when compared to a typical Tailors mouth shape and there were numerous Shark carcasses at the local boat ramp, along with what I suspect were small Jewfish. No boils, no schooling, no large amount of bite offs or results, just serious frenetic fleeing from the basin proper right down to the mouth (Which they will apparently open shortly). One I had on peeled line sideways with dramatic speed before simply getting bored and biting me off.
Armed with Bream lures it started to get expensive so I gave up trying to tempt one and concentrated in the channel for Flathead and fringes for Estuary Perch. Fishing for a family feed I kept a few E.P's for the first time and they presented well on a plate, in fact I think I have found a new favourite table fish (Will never rival Flathead though, IMO). All in all a great trip and without the competitive rigours of a Hobie round (Bemm River now home of 2012 Grand Final).
Complete print media article in the works, stay tuned...
The latest poll asked readers if they fished mainly fresh or saltwater (or both), I was a little suprised at the outcome. 36% of readers voted saltwater only while 63% voted for both. 0% voted for freshwater only, a little odd knowing the denizens of sweetwater anglers the capital holds.
Probably not that suprising I guess, being so close to the coast. I must remember to do a poll regarding which state the voter comes from (A clue for the next one). At one stage I probably would have voted freshwater only but given the decades topwater craze and the stacks of Bream and Whiting on high end Japanese lures I would now (And did mind you) definately vite both, even if I still rate yak fishing for Trout my number one favourite past time.
Random, do you know my favourite native lure is a Jackal Chubby? (Go figure)
Archived result:
DO YOU FISH FRESH OR SALTWATER?
Freshwater: 0%
Saltwater: 36%
Both: 63%%
This is the first Christmas break I haven't owned my old coffee shop (Bless its soul), so my time off differed from past Xmas periods. Recieving the token couple of days shy of a fortnight I managed to get away to the far South Coast of NSW for a few days and then a local jaunt. With Pambula/Merimbula buzzing with Mexicans fishing the lakes was going to be a little testing, even if they only just managed to open up the new and improved boat ramp (2 days before Xmas, cutting it fine council!).
Another year been and gone, that makes 5 years online.
Hard to believe that back in 2006 this place began as more of a simplified blog, spin forward to 2011 and it's the same blog only a little more glorified. After the huge spells of rain throughout the land in December 2010 this year began kind of turbidly. Local lakes and rivers had more water than many of our man made impoundments had ever seen. Googong Dam was suddenly at 100% and overflowing, the same can be said for Wyangla/Burrinjuck (And many others Australia wide).
Situated roughly 160km south of Sydney and an easy drive from Canberra is the centrepiece of the NSW South Coasts Shoalhaven scheme, Tallowa Dam. This concrete dam was completed in 1976 and is located immediately downstream from the junction of the Kangaroo and the Shoalhaven rivers. Tallowa Dam collects water from a 5,750 square kilometre water catchment that extends from Kangaroo Valley in the north-east to the upper Shoalhaven River south-west of Braidwood.
This water is stored in Lake Yarrunga, which is in itself is formed by Tallowa Dam. Lake Yarunga is the main water supply for the Shoalhaven and is one of Sydney’s major regular drinking water supplies.
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