For a bistatic HF radar,the bistatic angle,ocean current and physiognomy of receiver location will bring about the Bragg lines’ spreading,peak split and peak shift,so that the first order ocean clutter will be detected and tracked as a false target in some cases.To solve this problem,a fast method is proposed to suppress the ocean clutter.Based on some priori knowledge and stationary properties of the ocean surface,the ocean clutter frequency range to be suppressed was obtained on the Range-Doppler(RD) spectra.Then the Clean algorithm was applied to suppress the ocean clutter on the un-beam-formed channel data,after that the digital beam forming was performed and the obtained data were more helpful for target detection.The results show that this method is valid and can be implemented for real-time operation.