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Trip Reports Maclean Rocky Mouth | Rocky Mouth | | Print | |
| Written by Josh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Monday, 31 August 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dabbling back into the Clarence river They're back! It's been months - since the floods infact - since I've been inspired to fish the Clarence river. At the Maclean end especially, it's taken quite some time to clear up. But now the water has finally gone from a thick mud soup back to it's normal murkiness and the fishing is on again. That's what I'm hearing anyway, though my first venture out there wasn't exactly record-breaking. Blown off the water by 30+ knot winds only an hour or so after I started I only had one keeper fish to show for my efforts - a single flatty of around the 45cm mark. I also caught an average sized catfish, but of course these don't count. Both fish were caught from a trolled Rapalla bibbed diver, completely outfishing an Ecogear SX40 (a lure that usually does very well here). In that small window of opportunity that I had I checked out a few of my favourite spots, getting bites but no takers at both. My plan was to head up to the broadwater, fish for flathead and then drift back with the current. Trolling my way towards it resulted in the fish caught, but at around 9:00AM strong winds howled in from precisely the direction I was peddling (adding to the out-going current) and was funnelled by the river. And up to that point, there I was thinking the reports (the very same ones that kept me away from the ocean) might be wrong. They weren't. I was blown off the water soon after. Eventually I gave up fighting the wind and current, vowing to return another day. That day isn't far away.
When & where
10:00am launch,4:00pm land |
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