Casting with Coatsy

Casting with Coatsy

A breezy weekend along the coast put a halt to a few anglers’ plans, but the dedicated few who do not mind a bit of stir still managed to hit the water and get into some fish.

The offshore fishos found some nice shark and bottom species, while the boys from Southerly Fishing Charters gave their clients a thrill with sharks, flathead, nannygai and terakhi. I am still yet to hear of the first Port MacDonnell tuna for the season, but it cannot be too far away.

The fishing around the shallow kelp beds is about to get more interesting with the snapper season finally open again. A rippers have already been reeled in, but each snapper catch must be reported on the SA fishing app or a phone call to Fishwatch.

Nice shark have also been caught down there recently, gummies predominately, but the odd schoolie and bronzie have been mixed in.

It is from about now onwards we start to see the schools of mulloway turning up along the coast. Fishing the kelp the usual way for shark and snapper is how we target mulloway and get plenty of burley on the go too.

There is often a mix of sizes down there, so anything from 50cm to 50lb could be caught, so hang on.

The whiting numbers have remained excellent again. The usual spots such as the Port MacDonnell Breakwater, Cape Douglas and Carpenter Rocks have all produced nice fish, while some of the lesser fished areas such as Danger Point, Blackfellows Caves and even up as far as Southend have fished well too.

There are still plenty of silver trevally, salmon trout, mullet and snapper mixed in with our whiting, so you never know what you might take home. The garfish have been great again this week.

The size and numbers have both continued to impress right along the region. The swell has not slowed them down at all and it just seems to have pushed them to the more protected bays.

As has been the case for the last several weeks now, mullet and tommy ruff will be found with them in good numbers around most areas, so they will add a bit of variety to the bag.

There was some very nice sweep caught late last week by the boaties. A lot of anglers took advantage of Friday’s amazing weather and fished in some of those harder to get to spots.

The size and number of sweep was nothing short of impressive along much of the coast and I even saw a few nice hauls by the spear-fishos.

The Glenelg River has delivered for the lure guys lately. I have seen some excellent fish come from the upper reaches of the river. Ben and Kahne Jeffrey managed several nice perch up around Pritchards on a mixture of Cranka Crabs, diving minnows and Zman Grubs.

Brad Kain got stuck into some solid bream down on the sandflats of the estuary over the weekend when that blue water pushed in. Lightly weighted plastics were the weapon of choice and plenty of bream could not help themselves.

The mulloway news has been a bit quiet for most, but a few fishos did manage a couple down around the poles area trolling live mullet. Hopefully we see them kick into gear soon and the size start getting a little bit bigger.

The forecast for the weekend is a little bit up and down, but let’s just hope the wind stays away for as long as possible so we can get a crack at some fish.

Until next weekend, safe fishing.

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