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Bruce at Dave’s Bait Shop says quite a few bream and flathead have been around in the lower reaches, which are stained with local run-off.
Quite a few mud crabs around in the lower river and North Creek.
Plenty of tailor on the beaches with some bream around the walls.
Whiting and flathead in good numbers down along [...]

Ballina Seahorses have qualified for Football Far North Coast’s Anzac Cup final with a 3-2 win over neighbouring Lennox Head Sharks.
It was a sweet win for Ballina, who had not beaten Lennox in the top division.
Playing at home at Saunders Oval, Ballina had an early setback when the Sharks’ Paul Kirkland scored from the penalty [...]

 
Tintenbar-East Ballina captain Brett Crawford, above, has confirmed his status as one of the greatest all-rounders to play the game locally after winning his fourth Far North Coast L J Hooker League Cricketer of the Year award.
Crawford polled16 votes to win the award from Alstonville batsman Greg Potter (14), Lennox Head’s Mark Denmeade (13), Cudgen’s Michael [...]

Bruce at Dave’s Bait Shop says the river has been fishing really well for whiting and flathead with quite a few bream around as well.
A few blackfish also starting to appear around the walls. Some school jew up-river around Pimlico to Wardell. Mud crabs are starting to move upstream again but still a few around [...]

It’s flat this morning but there is real promise for the weekend.
There’s a nice offshore and the forecast for Saturday is south-west to south-east winds, and a westerly is predicted for Sunday.
All we need is a spike in the swell.
Marine weather: W/SW 5/10 knots, tending SE. Sea: About 1 metre. Swell: S/SE about 1.5 metres. [...]

Bruce at Dave’s Bait Shop in Ballina says whiting and flathead are going quite well in the lower reaches with quite a few bream as well.
Mud crabs in North Creek, Emigrant Creek and the main river in good numbers.
The main go this week has been the tailor along the beaches and around the headlands with [...]

Very ordinary onshore conditions today but there’s some hope for waves over the Easter long weekend, with a southerly change predicted for late tomorrow.
There’s a swell of about a metre, so if it holds up over the next few days, there could be better conditions on offer.
Marine weather: E/NE 10/15 knots. Sea: 1/1.5 metres. Swell: [...]

ABOVE: Tintenbar-East Ballina’s Phil Dalli is congratulated by captain Brett Crawford after reaching his century. Scroll down for more pictures.
One of the great contests in Far North Coast sporting history was played out last weekend when Tintenbar-East Ballina hosted Casino Cavaliers in the L J Hooker League final at Kingsford Smith South, Ballina.
Tintenbar-East Ballina batted [...]

Bruce from Dave’s Bait Shop in Ballina says everyone’s catching a few fish in the river.
Plenty of flatties and whiting and a lot of bream but the bream are only just size or under.
A few good whiting around Pimlico with some flatties as well, with bloodworms doing the damage on the whiting.
North Creek, Emigrant Creek [...]

A cleaner swell this morning of about three feet, but the offshore conditions won’t last long.
The forecast is for variable 5/10 knots at first, tending E/SE and increasing to 10/15 knots in the south, 15/20 knots in the north during the afternoon.
Sea: to 1 metre, rising to 1.5/2 metres in the afternoon. Swell: SE 1.5/2 [...]