By former Murray River fisheries officer TREVOR SIMMONDS
Morgan is a historic town on the South Australian section of the Murray River.
It has good boat launching facilities.
Being close to Adelaide it is quite popular, and you will find it more difficult to find a piece of river to yourself here than towns further upstream.
The Morgan and Cadell sections of the river are productive for callop and carp, with occasional cod, both upstream and downstream of the towns.
Yabbies are usually about in big numbers in summer, particularly in the small creeks that enter the main stream.
Downstream from Morgan, approaching Blanchetown, there are numerous lagoons and billabongs that are worth a fish for callop, look for some submerged snags.
If buying a shrimp trap or yabby pot, be sure it complies with SA rules here.
For bait, earthworms work well, but you can’t beat locally caught live shrimp.
Here is a list of recommended tackle for the Murray River.
Murray River National Park SA
Murray River flows in SA
Murray River and other SA boat ramps
SA fishing regulations
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