This weekend was much more pleasant than we have seen for a little while now, and it was very encouraging to see plenty of anglers hitting the water again and making the most of it.


We have seen plenty of fish caught over the weekend, so let’s get straight into it!


Offshore fishing has been pretty good for most that have ventured out.


The shark numbers are still impressive in most depths, I have seen some great school and gummy shark caught anywhere from 15 metres and beyond.


There are also still plenty of nice red snapper, terakhi, flathead and snapper out there too, so you never know what might come along.


There has been only a couple of days good enough recently to hit the shelf, but those who have ventured out have found reasonable numbers of blue eye and pink ling, and most of decent size too.


It’s been a while now since we have seen a tuna along our coastline, but I know the keen anglers have not given up hope of their return to Port MacDonnell just yet, if we get the conditions right and everything lines up, who knows what might swim past.


The surf fishing has been excellent this week, we have seen some nice fish from the beach again and they’re nice and spread out too.


The beaches in some areas have been super soft, whereas others are in decent condition.


As always, it’s a good idea to drop a few pounds out of the tyres before hitting the beach, more often than not if you wait until you’re stuck, it’s too late.


Moving onto the fishing, gummy shark and salmon have dominated the news once more, we have seen solid catches of both this past week from Piccaninnie, through Brownes Beach, Nene Valley and Carpenter Rocks.


The gummys have been decent beach fish, most around that 4kg – 6kg mark which are great samples.


I’m still seeing the odd elephant fish caught too in the afore mentioned areas, and despite being a funky looking critter, they are exceptional eating.


The whiting fishos have kicked into gear, maybe even a little earlier than we’d usually expect.


The conditions have suited the whiting fishos the past few weeks, with the sea being stirred up and milky, it’s good to get out and have a look around and see what’s happening.


There are fish being caught by the boaties and the land based fishos, and much like last week, although the numbers are not massive and we’re bagging out every trip, we’re still seeing a good feed and decent size fish.


The Port MacDonnell breakwater is producing fish for the boaties, as is Blackfellows Caves and Pelican Point.


The land based fishos have done quite well in Nene Valley and Carpenter Rocks in the late afternoons, and I’d expect them to only improve from here on.


There has been some lovely garfish this past week.


I have seen some very nice catches from Cape Douglas in front of the shacks and around at Livingstons Bay.


There are some nice big gar around at the minute, though they can be a bit finicky at times.


Lighter leaders, smaller floats or smaller hooks can sometimes make a difference, but sometimes the buggers just will not bite.


That’s fishing! There are tommy ruff, salmon trout and mullet in the same spots, so expect a bit of a mixed bag.


Inland fishing has been great once more.


Rocklands is quickly establishing itself as a native fisho’s paradise, and once we see those cod reach that magical metre mark, I think we’ll see anglers from around Australia heading down for a crack.


There are some thumping yellowbelly being caught at the moment, with dark coloured lures either jigged or cast around the timber being the best method for success.


There are still bass being landed amongst the yellas too which is very exciting, there are not too many places in the southern states where you can tangle with 50cm+ bass!


The Glenelg River is starting to fish a bit more reliably, Glenn and Donna Fry spent the evening down there on Saturday and managed a nice 80cm mulloway and dropped a couple of others.


The bream and perch fishing has remained good again this week, good numbers of both species have been caught throughout the length of the river by boaties and land based anglers.


Bait fishos have done their best with worms, prawns or whitebait, while the lure anglers have found success with the Rapala crush city range, mostly in lighter colours.


Mia and Nathan Leggett fished Sunday arvo for a couple of hours and managed some ripper bream to 40cm just above Dry Creek on baits, making for a great dad and daughter day out.


The forecast for the coming week looks like we’ll see some pretty reasonable conditions, swell and wind are expected to spike on Friday arvo, before laying down nicely for the remainder of the weekend and into the new week.


Check the conditions before you do head out just in case it does not do as expected.


Until next week, safe fishing!