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2 July 2002, Vass
Location: Patterson River Time: 8am-2pm
Type of Water: Estuary Type of Fishing: Shore
Target Fish: Bream
Bait\Lure\Fly: Beach worms, chicken
Fish Caught: 9 x bream @ to 1kg
Comments: Fished at second bridge for 3 hours with no result, moved under the bridge and the action started. All fish were caught on beach worms right on change of tide. Good day out.

26 April 2002, Chris Mc Mennemin
Location: Patterson River Time: 2-2.30pm
Type of Water: Estuary Type of Fishing: Pier
Target Fish: Black bream
Bait\Lure\Fly: Shrimp, crab
Fish Caught: 2 x black bream @ 1.5lb & 500gram
Comments: Nice bream. Cast line out, placed rod on jetty, turned away then heard a splash to realise my rod was gone, jumped in the water and searched for about 10 min to no avail... my dad grabbed another rod and cast and retrieved for 5 min and eventually hooked into the rod which had the 35cm, 1.5 pound, black bream dangling on the end... hehe!

20 April 2002, Lindsay
Location: Patterson River Time: 10am-5.30pm
Type of Water: River Type of Fishing: Shore
Target Fish: Bream, flathead, mullet
Bait\Lure\Fly: Live Bass yabbies, pilchards
Fish Caught: 3 x bream @ 19-20cm
Comments: A very quiet day. Started near the ramps them moved under the bridge near the mouth of the river. Could see HUGE fish swimming there but not a nibble from them. **All fished returned**

8 April 2002, Cory Foz
Location: Patterson Lakes Time: 9am-2pm
Type of Water: Estuary Type of Fishing: Pier
Target Fish: Bream
Bait\Lure\Fly: Prawns, chicken
Fish Caught: 2 x bream @ 30+cms
3 x bream @ -25cms
1 x trevally @ 36cms
Comments: Good day infact, caught a beautiful trevally, nice (big and fat). Caught a few bream, brother caught the bigggest at 34cms.

2 March 2002, Julius K
Location: Patterson Lakes Time: 1-5pm
Type of Water: Estuary Type of Fishing: Shore
Target Fish: Salmon, trevally, bream
Bait\Lure\Fly: Chicken in tuna oil
Fish Caught: 1 x trevally @ 28cm
Comments: A few bites but only 1 hook up

16 September 2001, Julius K
Location: Patterson Lakes Time: 11.30am-2pm
Type of Water: Estuary Type of Fishing: Shore
Target Fish: Bream, mullet, salmon, anything
Bait\Lure\Fly: Chicken
Fish Caught: 2 x salmon @ 26 to 28 cm
Comments: First time I've caught something at the Patto Lakes.

9 September 2001, Julius K
Location: Patterson Lakes Time: 1pm-4pm
Type of Water: Estuary Type of Fishing: Shore
Target Fish: Bream
Bait\Lure\Fly: Prawns, live bass yabbies
Fish Caught: None, see comments below.
Comments: 1st time I fished Patto Lakes. Not too impressed!!

29 June 2001, Shane Hutchinson
Location: Patterson Lakes Time: 8am-11am
Type of Water: Estuary Type of Fishing: Shore
Target Fish: Bream
Bait\Lure\Fly: Prawns
Fish Caught: None, see comments below.
Comments: It was pretty slow going. Had a few bites but nothing special. Will give it another crack another day.

16 April 2001, Mark Bolger
Location: Patterson Lakes Time: 4pm-6pm
Type of Water: Estuary Type of Fishing: Shore
Target Fish: Black bream
Bait\Lure\Fly: Crazy Charlie Fly, prawns
Fish Caught: 4 x Black Bream @ 30-40cms
Comments: I landed two bream, one small, then another of about 750 grams. Clint and Nathan landed one each - Clint's was about a pound. I fished the wind lanes with a drifting prawn, to great success. Then some idiot stole my rod.
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February 2001, Chris Macca
Location: Patterson Lakes Time: 1pm
Type of Water: Estuary Type of Fishing: Wading
Target Fish: Monster bream
Bait\Lure\Fly: Crab, shrimp
Fish Caught: 1 x Bream @ 37cm 1kg
1 x Bream @ 30cm 500gr
1 x Bream @ 29cm 460gr
Comments: Waded on the water and with a pencil float I put it under my big boat not long later the biggest bream in Patterson Lakes was caught.
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