Harwood

Red Rock Retaining Wall Harwood

What is it?

Harwood is a small hamlet located on Harwood Island between the north and south arm of the Clarence River. Fishing options include the Harwood Bridge, river flats on the southern side downstream and upstream from the Harwood Hotel and good deep water near the sugar mill, slipway and the hole at Martins Point. Where is it?

Harwood Island is where the Pacific Highway goes over the Clarence river. What’s there?

Boat ramps on either side of the river. which have cleaning tables and toilets, and plenty of parking for cars and trailers. What fish should I target?

Flathead, Mullaway, Bream, Luderick, Whiting can all be caught, as well as some becoming more frequent summer visitors like Giant Herring, Tarpon and Trevally. What bait should I use?

Live herring for Mullaway, small lano mullet also make excellent live bait, as do torpedo squid. For Bream small pieces of cut bait work well. For Flathead it is pretty hard to go past white bait or anchovies.

What lures are best?

Flathead are responsive to soft plastics nearly all year round, peak times are April/ May and August/September. Mullaway find large soft plastics and Vibration Blades hard to resist. Lightly weighted soft plastics, small deep diving hard body lures and small blades work well for Bream. Best time to fish?

The winter months are best for the big Mullaway and Bream, autumn and late winter early spring for the Flathead, summer months for the Whiting. What dream fish might I catch?

Again large Mullaway are the target, however some 4kg+ Flathead are often caught here. Harwood bridge can often turn up some obscure captures, like Cobia and large Mangrove Jack.

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Rocky Mouth

What is it?

Where the South Arm of the Clarence converges with the main river lays a large body of coffee rock reef known to the locals as Rocky Mouth. Where is it?

Rocky Mouth is within 500m of Maclean CBD.

What’s there?

What fish should I target? What bait should I use?

What lures are best? Best time to fish?

What dream fish might I catch?

The boat ramp near the Court House in Maclean is only around 300m down stream from Rocky Mouth.

The most common would be Flathead, Mullaway, Luderick, Whiting and Bream. All the usual baits will work fine at Rocky Mouth, rigged live herring for big Bream and Mullaway, live poddy mullet for large Flathead. Try prawns, chicken gut, mullet gut, squid and worms.

Hard body diving lures for bream in the winter fished over the shallow reef can yield great results as can small lightly weighted soft plastics. Some very big Flathead and Mullaway call Rocky Mouth home. Big soft plastics and Vibration Blades are very effective on both. Plenty of Mangrove Jack and Trevally etc will fall victim to the same techniques over the summer period here. No matter what the season there is always something going on at Rocky Mouth, best for Bream in autumn and winter, big Flathead, Trevally and Mangrove Jack in the summer time. For the big Mullaway you can’t beat spring. The last of the run in tide through slack water, or the bottom of the tide through slack water are both optimum times.

Summer months, Mullaway over 10kg are occasionally caught here as well as giant Trevally over 5kgs have been taken. Some dry summers, massive schools of giant herring take up residence at Rocky Mouth to feast on prawns and small bait-fish.

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MACLEAN

the Scottish town

Imgaes: Lynne Mowbray

On the banks of the mighty Clarence River is Maclean – the Scottish town in Australia. This historic town is renowned for its Scottish Festivals the Highland Gathering and International Tartan Day.

Many of Maclean’s street signs are written in Gaelic as well as English.

Take a stroll and explore the historic architecture on the heritage walking trail or call into the Scottish shop to pick up information to track down your clan on the 200 decorated tartan power poles.

A visit to the bicentennial museum shows the development of Maclean with the adjacent Stone Cottage depicting home life in the 1880’s.

Maclean is also home to Australia’s oldest free presbyterian church.

There is a scottish cairn located in Taloumbi Street. The decision to create a Scottish Cairn in Maclean grew from a Bicentennial gift of a Cairn from Scotland to Australia (1988). Despite intense lobbying, the Cairn was given permanent home in Mosman Park, Sydney.

The Maclean “Scottish Town in Australia” Committee decided to construct its own Cairn. The Cairn was positioned in Stanford Park. Stones were obtained from parts of Scotland, from Scottish families throughout Australia and locally.

The Maclean Scottish Cairn is a fitting memorial to the contribution Scottish settlers made to the Clarence and to Australia. Maclean has a bustling retail sector with many boutique shops housed in some beautifully restored historic buildings.

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