Paterson 22/5/13

So I had a few hours free today so Dad and I went and fished around Paterson.
We found a great stretch of river for testing lures, lots of different forms of cover and a small tributary outlet meeting under a bridge.

It was a great day out, a touch of rain but got to have a good look around and mapped out a few more potential fishing spots. Fishing mostly onto river sand and mud, we used yabbies, worms and grubs for bait and threw a few lures around. The yabbies were caught elsewhere and most weeks I get more for either bait or fish food. My pet bass love them and so do the wild ones, this one took a small one.

We took extra care with this one as it was possibly full of eggs and with breeding season starting soon it could of been an early bloomer. She hit hard on a great little lure made by Bob (Links to lurelovers.com, sign up and have a look around.) It swam off strongly and hopefully will make it to the estuarine waters before letting its eggs go.

The end of the day was spent at a spot I've fished before with mixed results but it is a lovely little spot that I will fish many more times. It is a fairly popular spot inside the town of Paterson and I've seen people swim and rope-swing there but there was nobody else around today and it made a quiet, peaceful afternoon. No fish were caught here this time but there was a lot of movement in the water and plenty to see. A few bites and a big hook up that I lost all added up but in the end I just scooped a few shrimp for my pet bass and a gudgeon for another tank.

 Hopefully I can get out again next week and put some more photos up.
I'll show off a few of my lures if I get a chance and a few other bits and pieces I have been saving for a rainy week.

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Lake St Clair 1/5/2013

So this week I planned an early morning fishing trip with my Dad. He taught me most of what I know now and he is the reason I love fishing and the bush and can appreciate and enjoy it without destroying it. So thank you for everything you have taught me so far.
Alright so we left at 4am, got up there on daybreak and it was a beautiful morning. A bit of cloud cover, not really hot and the dam was sitting higher than when we were last there by about a metre.
I spotted a few wallabies on the hill behind us and I missed them with the camera but they were still a great sight.

We got into the fish early, with dad pulling in a nice little Bass about 30cm first up.

I got the biggest one at 41cm and between us we pulled out 6 Bass all 30cm+.

We had no luck on lures this time, but they were loving the grubs and garden worms.

I'd love nothing more than to spend every day doing this, but the real world doesn't let me.

Lake St Clair is still fishing great and is a beautiful spot. The water was clean, the fish were very healthy and are stocked frequently so I will definitely be back there again soon. I would love to get a Golden Perch as I haven't caught one yet so I will try to focus more on them next time.
The Singleton Tourism website says that the dam is stocked with Australian Bass, Golden Perch and Silver Perch. I am yet to hear of a silver coming of there but if it's stocked then I'm sure they have been caught. I will look further into this too.

I'll post next time I get out.

Cheers,
Andrew