help with Yamba???

[brock13]

heading to Yamba for easter with the family to get away from everything for a week. Never been there before and just looking for a few hints and tips on what i will encounter. I have a good mix of estuary and surf rods. What baits? Should i take the boat? (4.2 30hp)

[LostNearBribie]

Mate have a look through these reports, always a good insight into what is going on.

http://reports.fishingmonthly.com.au/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=34

Take your boat for sure.
It is a huge area and you can catch most things you would want to catch.
A week is never long enough.
Boat, Beach, Rock walls, you name it, it's down there....
Take all the tackle you've got room for.
Baits as usual fresh is best, yabbies, mullet, worms etc.
Yamba bait & tackle and Big River Tackle at McLean are the places to ask questions when you are there.

[brock13]

a week with my family is long enough trust me.

[brock13]

a week with my family is long enough trust me.

[blackjew]

Mate Yamba is the entrance to the mighty Clarrence easyest bar to cross anywhere on the eastcoast,except on a big swell.
jewys of the rocks,oh and theres a few secret spots i know lol ,you want a decky thats recovering from a cornea transplant :D In the boat snapper out the front and up towards woody just sound for some good bottom,If its to blowy head up the Clarrence ,make sure you got all your safety gear and stuff the Marine fisheries are always out and about and love bragging about the amount of people they have caught in the local rag ,oh dont forget your N.S.W. fishing licence.

Cheers Rob

[matt fraser]

So many options, the week will fly by, and you'll only just start to get it sussed.

My trouble there is trying to balance a family and fishing holiday, because I just want to fish 24 hours a day.

You need to work out a target species or area early and then focus on working it out, or you will just end up trying a bit of everything and not working anything out.

Browns Rocks is a goto spot for me, holds a lot of fish - Bream, Jewies, Flathead. Its a bit of a run up the river though, and the river can get nasty with tide against wind.

The entrance to the boat harbour is a good close area that holds good whiting and flathead.

Landbased -whiting beach was fishing well for flathead on my last trip.

Click on 'Search' above and type in Yamba, quite a few reports there.

Good luck,

Matt

[steve harney]

The middle wall always has something to catch!! Oyster Channel bridge!! Browns rocks on the change of tide is the only time that you can feel the bite. I always have fun on the rock wall for bream beach side, you lose lots of gear but fun & games, nice little gutter on the inside. Watched the local fishing & bail shop owner catch big Jew fish every night using a big popper off the rock wall, They say up to 20,000 people come into the area in the holidays that's a lot for a little town like Yamba watch out for the looneys on the water all the locals leave as it get out of control there during the Hol's. make sure you get a fishing license as the fisheries guys will check them out & check the regs as a few things in NSW are different down there cast nets a big no no!! I don't mind about the license fees they seem to give it back to us fishing people great ramps, cleaning boards, etc someone goes around & cleans all the ramps & boards am everyday, wash down hose & engine flush hose on all the ramps, cannot say this about Qld but than again we don't pay fee's here. They have changed some rules about life jackets at night, & different size for fish & crabs also & believe u will be checked as I was, they were polite & pretty easy going until there's something a miss as I witnessed in a another boat out there. mate it's great down there pretty easy fishing & boating there for all the family
Cheers

[theoldlegend]

Browns Rocks up the river is worth a shot, although it's been a bit hit and miss lately. A couple of k's up river and look for the green beacon. About 150 metres past the beacon and sound around for the drop offs. Yabbies and live herrings. An hour or so before high up there which is about 2 hours after high in the tide times.

Try at the end of the Middle Wall at low tide for bream. Bait is as above.

Whiting Beach at low. Yabbies can be pumped just around the corner past the end of Whiting Beach. Soft plastics for flathead.

Beaches and the wall for just about anything.

Make sure your safety gear is spot on and make sure you have a permit.


TOL

[Truck]

I have always done well with live bait along the middle wall for good sized flathead. Any of the beaches at the right spot with worms will get you some good whiting/bream/flathead. Whiting beach or along the break wall is always a good spot to go to if the weather is not too great but I suspect there will be heaps of fellow fishers there as well on the easter long weekend. Get out on your boat and have a go along the middle wall (or any walls for that matter), also Browns Rocks and there are some really good spots along the sand flats at Goodwood Island which is on the way to Browns rocks. I have alway done well there and I am sure you will too.

[brock13]

thanks to everyone for your suggestions. Am itching to get down there. going to take the boat for some explorations, in the process of making a new trailer for the drive (dont think the old one will make in there and back) thanks again will post photos after the trip. IS ANYONE VENTURING THAT WAY FOR EASTER???