It's beginning to look a lot like Fishmas!

Paul Kneller | December 11

Jason Sheehan with a good sized wahoo, proving you don't need big boats to tangle with these offshore speedsters at this time of year.

After what would have to have been (touch wood!) the driest Spring we have seen for some years in the Clarence Valley, with just the odd afternoon thunderstorm, the fishing has flourished.

The bass are really starting to hit their straps now with good morning and afternoon surface action ramping up. If you fish for bass and don't shriek like a four-year-old girl when a big fish climbs all over your surface lure, check your pulse – you are no longer with us!

The flathead fishing has gone from ordinary to unreal in the past couple of weeks. Bream anglers pre-fishing for the Gamakatsu Bream grand final on the Clarence have been plagued by the lizards, especially around Rocky Mouth and the entrance to the Broadwater above Maclean.

I don't know why flathead have such a love for little Jackall Chubbies but they can't get enough of them here.

Often the big frogs will chew through the bream fishos’ light fluorocarbon leaders, resulting in the loss of expensive lures (we call that feeding strawberries to pigs!), but the flathead swims off with it the and the tackle shop gets to sell you another one. That’s a win-win situation for me, at least!

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