The water was slightly dirty after all of the recent rain and flooding, but there was quite a large amount of bait swimming around. It was also very windy which prevented much surface fishing for the day.
Clear Island Waters is a subdivision based on constructed canals, the water is freshwater though pre-exisiting boat launches and pontoons indicate is was once salt or at least brackish. There is lots of pontoons and extensive weed banks along the concrete and rock walls.
Well at a lesuirely time of 10:30am John and I launched via a small park and peddaled South slowly trolling an Atomic Hardz Deep Crank 38 in Ghost Gill Brown, though I was more interested in the possibility of surface fishing underneath the jetties and pontoons. Which did result in a good follow underneath a pontoon at the Southern limits of CIW.
John had picked up a few small bass so far until I landed my first, as we went along I found some more bass willing to play and the biggest at 32cm TL.
There are bream living in this waterway and proving this were two at 31cm and 35cm for John, who had now landed all his fish on a Dark Green Maria crankbait.
At around 1pm we decided to head back in and I preceded to pack up and drive to Hinze Dam which is in the hills West of Nerang.
Here I met up with Chris another KFDU member and we started out slow downstream jounery in search of some bass which apparently were biting according to some paddlers that were already on the dam.
After a pleasant 4hours of fishing I finally got a hookup on a large something which buried me in the lilypads, losing my beloved Lucky Craft MS Black Sammy 65.
Well following a nice day fishing for bass I packed up and headed for my accomodation for the night.
Hinze Dam
