A breezy weekend made the fishing a bit difficult for boaties, but the forecast of a few ripper days this week has softened the blow a little bit.
Late last week there was an opportunity for offshore anglers to hit the water and a number took the chance. The 60 to 100mt line has fished well again for those targeting flathead and sharks.
Gummy shark have made up the bulk of the numbers, but school shark are still sniffing around too. Nannygai, terakhi and blue morwong were also caught, so there is a real mixed bag out there at the moment. A few anglers have had some decent mako sharks cruising around the boat, but I have not heard of one landed just yet.
We still have not seen one tuna off Port MacDonnell just yet, but hopefully one is only a matter of days away. Snapper fishos have enjoyed a cracker start to the season.
Lots of solid fish have been caught so far and they have been well spread out. I know of fish from Carpenter Rocks, through to Livingston’s Bay, off the beach at Nene Valley and into the usual haunts from Orwell’s Rocks through to Green Point.
There have been plenty of other species mixed in with the snapper guys caught, big whiting, mackerel, sharks, squid and even crayfish have all been welcomed. Whiting fishos have been into some nice fish again after the stir.
The Port MacDonnell breakwater has probably been the most productive. Land based anglers have been finding their fair share from the Port MacDonnell jetty this week and other have found theirs off the beaches around Carpenter Rocks and Cape Douglas.
There is still plenty of mullet and salmon trout being caught with the whiting, so an opportunity for a mixed bag is there.
Garfishos have got stuck into some nice fish and the waders have probably had the upper hand with the wind, but those in the protected areas have still managed a nice feed. The usual hot spots such as Livingstons, Cape Douglas and Hutt Bay produced some nice gar and tommies and with the upcoming forecast, I cannot see that changing too much.
The evenings down on the Port MacDonnell jetty have been great for those chasing a feed of tommy ruff. Under the lights, throw in a burley float with a bunch of gents underneath and you are just about guaranteed to find mackerel, salmon trout and the odd gar too.
While you are chasing the tommies, pop a squid jig out the back on a float because there are some excellent numbers at the moment. The Glenelg River has fished reasonably well and I have seen a few reasonable fish caught but they have been very spread out.
Neville Issacson boated a couple of legal mulloway downstream from Donovans on the weekend and a handful of bream mixed in. Nathan and Rachel Leggett fished Sunday afternoon just up from Dry Creek and boated 30 or more bream, keeping four of the bigger ones for a feed and a nice 80cm mulloway.
Eli Johnson fished under the bridge and found some very nice bream and estuary perch. There have been more nice fish caught upstream too. Ben Jeffrey and Craig Turner threw cranka crabs for a few hours on Sunday and found good numbers of both perch and bream around the rock walls.
This weekend looks like it could be a good one. The wind is down and the swell looks fishable so far, so let’s just hope the weather man has got it right.
Until next week, safe fishing.
