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love st clair , i go there once a year around october , plenty of fish in the home bay both sides of the camp site got my best a 380 on the surface one morning off the bank before getting in the boat. that was a black bat pretty standard bass lure. if you can get to the weed beds blades and heavier soft plastics are good something that you can throw a bit further and drop into the strike zone quick can be good

Dagger kayaks make a 2 man that you can move the seat and paddle by yourself with heaps of leg room and weight capacity, I am 6'3" which is nothing like your issue but i reckon there is a good 300mm of room in front of my feet when im solo in it, really stable and pretty light considering it is a 2 man. it is called a drifter can get them for about $1500 new i think have had mine for years

hi Jarvo, i have eaten bass, they are probably the best fresh water fish around here IMO, i only take them out of stocked dams not wild ones, always release wild bass but im sure you could take one or two every now and then

i have fished lake st clair a few times, have had success in two main ways, either trolling deep diving hardbodies like taylor mades and stump jumpers (but there are heaps of options) or casting at the weed beds with blades or bibless vibes. the good old soft plastic with a spinner works well but you need to up the weight of the jig head to get down into the strike zone. hope this helps

hi Joe, i head down to batemans bay a bit. have booked a charter for the 29th of december, leaving 6am from the marina. at this stage there are still a few spots. let me know if your interested

i fish for bass a lot in the warmer times, only time i dont like using clips/snaps is some of my surface lures as it can weigh down the front and upset the "bloop bloop" of the action. but if youre using bibbed lures or sp , i reckon its worth a try , good point by cargo05 still need to retie the snaps on some fresh leader every now and then

water might be getting a bit too cold for the lake flathead, especially after all the rain last month.

I go out in a couple of boats mostly off shore, one FG 6metres long, the other is a 6 metre crusher, both are running 150 yammys, the crusher leaves it for dead and uses half the fuel but the owner of the glass boat wouldnt have it any other way as he prefers the ride, i think a big part of it is the type of fishing, we do a lot of drift fishing with a sea anchor , not much trolling so prefer ally but maybe with trolling glass would be more comfortable. bottom line, endless debate that will only confuse you more

good rule of thumb is one litre per hp plus a reserve tank, but all depends on your trip and boat

have heard of soap for freshwater crustaceans , might work for the crabs too

i have fished the bay and river quite a bit, it can be very good for flathead under the bridge at batemans bay but need to get there before the jetskis they seem to have bred like rabbits down that way over the last year, get plenty of whiting and flathead around snapper island if you have the boat to get there.

got a couple at wisemans over the weekend but only had some old frozen bait, get some fresh mullet of flathead frames

that first red looks like a good size, well done i was down that way but fished batemans bay best we did was a 475 flathead and a 350 whiting

i had that same problem with a stingray on my whiting setup down at windang just before christmas, had to run about a hundred metres down the sand flat to get my line on the reel broke off at the leader thankfully.

have fished the rocks at bawley point a few times, you cross the mouth of that lagoon to get there, it was closed at easter but open last winter, may not have opened up this winter