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Jewfish steer clear of Clarence River
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been a fly on the wall
the well-known spots being full to the brim and anglers trying their luck.
Back Beach and Main Beach have been the spots to fish for a good feed of tailor, bream and the odd school jew.
fish to 6kg were quite common.
mullet move back up- stream for summer.
the day the lads were busy taking photos of their fish back at the boat ramp in Yamba, only to look up and see the boat drifting away!
The majority of fish- ers have been getting a decent feed each day.
Some honking tar- whine around the 1.8kg mark have been land- ed up along Ten Mile Beach at Shark Bay along with plenty of solid bream and a hand- ful of school jew, and this trend should con- tinue if the swell abates.
In theory, August should see similar fish- ing to last month, how- ever I hope the smelly old jew return to the river for the rest of win- ter before the flat-tailed
Sorry, my report is a bit short as I’ve had a few health issues to deal with, but it should be all systems go next month.
Lucky Travis could swim.
Bream are to be had for those targeting them, however very few boats fish at night like they used to years ago, when you could eas- ily tell the fish were on by the huge number of trailers in the carpark, but these days the car- parks are empty.
Until next month, safe fishing.
Elsewhere, offshore Grafton angler David Atkins managed to boat nice snapper to 6.8kg up north at Black Rocks, while Bill Dur- ham from Sydney led the way with snapper to over 8kg from the southern grounds off Wooli.
Both the Bluff and Second Bluff have fished well for jewfish to a tad over 20kg and tailor to 3kg on hard- bodied minnow lures during low tide.
Back in the 1980s, my mates and I used to fish Forty Foot on the Ev- ans Head headland for mack tuna every Au- gust using metal slugs and though I haven’t been back there for over 20 years, I would as- sume these little speed- sters are still doing their thing today.
Luderick have domi- nated catches in the Clarence River, with all
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Bush ’n Beach Fishing, August 2020 – Page 39
Given that our tra- ditional land-based pelagic season is over until next year on the far north coast of NSW, the headland could be an option if you want to have a bit of fun dur- ing the off season, as