A recent trip found us way down in the South East of South Australia.  We travelled just over the border into Victoria to a place called Nelson.

I had always heard of the good size Bream that could be found around the Glenelg River so while on a holiday it seemed like the right time to wet a line.  Nelson is a small town about 40 kilometres from Mount Gambier.  Mount Gambier seems to be the place to stock up on supplies as there's not a great deal to pick from in Nelson, although there is a rather good takeaway shop there for a good meal.  There are 2 caravan parks in the town and both are very good so it's just a matter of choice I guess as to which one you want to stay at.

Now for the fun part.  Fishing along the banks of the river in the town are these great little boat sheds and these sheds attract some nice Bream.  We all know bream like a bit of structure and the low part of the river certainly has plenty of that.  When I was there I didn't use fresh bait but I did use small lures, both hard and soft plastics with equal amount of success.

I hired a small boat from the boat hire guy and headed up stream looking for likely looking spots, and there are plenty to choose from.  I found a small spinning outfit with 4 kilo line did the trick for me.  As for the lures well I chose shallow diving minnows and soft plastic worms and the fish seemed to love these to bits.

Further down stream towards the mouth of the river you can find Mulloway and Bream and these can be reached from either the beach, river bank or by boat if you don't want to get wet.

All in all it was a good holiday and certainly worth a second trip which is on the cards early in the New Year.