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Broken Head has chopper tailor and bream around the rocks. Choppers also north of the caravan park along the beach at dusk and dawn. Try the beach at Taylors Lake for bream, dart and those choppers. Whiting and dart on Suffolk Park Beach, Tallow Creek and Honeysuckle Hill. Chopper tailor and dart off the rocks at Cosy Corner, and the Chair and the Stepping Stones on the cape.
Belongil and Sunrise beaches farther down the bay have choppers and dart.
A few cobia and the odd mackerel in the bay but nothing spectacular.
Simmo and Dave, Byron Bay Bait and Tackle 6685 7711
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Two major things have happened in the past week on and around the Clarence. Firstly there has been a marked improvement in the movement of the mud crab population. Both amateurs and professionals are reporting an increase in the number taken and for the most part the crabs weigh well. Less visitors around from now on so everyone should benefit. There’s a strong move to have a ‘sharefarmers licence’ introduced so that individuals won’t feel so bad about everyone else checking out their pots and traps!! Blueswimmers are still light on though and we can only hope for some improvement as time goes on. The other specie to really show up in the past week are the spaniards and from what I heard Tuesday and Wednesday from the boys who had fished both to the north and south of the Clarence River mouth the fish are XXOS size. Should be plenty of string stretched there in the coming weeks. The better whiting are at night both on the beaches and in the estuary. Most anglers are happy with the number of flathead around. Use white pilchards for bait and live herring, big problem this past fortnight have been the huge number of small tailor in the system. These critters destroy a packet of whites pretty quickly so if you are plagued by the tooth brigade try silver biddies, word is they don’t destroy them quite as much and don’t forget your lures.
Glen Porter, The Bait Place 6646 2017
ports@turboweb.net.au
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Beginning next week!
Peter Russell, Fish Tackle Australia 66524611
motackle@midcoast.com.au
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Fishing has been a real mixed bag this week.
Offshore, spotted mackerel have not shown up but a few small black marlin and spanish mackerel have been taken. The most targeted species have been dolphin fish, cobia, kingies and small yellowfin, all of which have been in good numbers.
The Macleay River has fished well with flathead up to 7kg taking all manner of live and dead baits as well as most minnow-style lures and soft plastics. We weighed in a jewfish of 23kg cleaned, taken from the South Wall last Saturday morning. There are plenty of good-sized whiting to be had from the sand flats.
Smoky Cape Beach has been fishing well for whiting, bream and huge dart.
Peter & Amanda Jordan, Rocks Marine Bait and Tackle 6566 6726
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Offshore:
Despite clear warm water, game fishing is slow. The best of the offshore fishing is around Seal Rocks with kings to 18kg. The reefs are producing snapper, mulloway and trag. Tailor have been reported in close to Blackhead and Latitude Rock.
Beaches:
Whiting in reasonable numbers at most beaches. Bream seem concentrated on beaches close to estuary systems. Tailor are patchy, with best reports from Nine Mile Beach at Tuncurry.
Rocks:
Land-based game action has yet to start in earnest. A few kings are showing up off Charlotte Head.
Estuary:
Prawns have run well over the past week and as such, the food chain is working overtime. Good mulloway have been caught on both sides of the channel with fresh octopus the preferred bait. Excellent whiting in most parts of the lake. bream tend to be small. Flathead are taking a large variety of lures - DOAs, Rios, etc, but the unsung hero of the summer is the Producers Lure #2 Lightning Minnow in colour 976 (baby king prawn)
Lloyd Campbell, Great Lakes Tackle 6554 9541
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Estuary:
School jew around 4.5kg on the Psyche wreck in Little Salamander Bay; better quality fish in the deeper holes off Middle Island at Soldiers Point and around Karuah bridge. Flathead in numbers around Corrie Island, The Cut in the Myall River, Shoal Bay in front of the hospital and on the Corlette groynes. Bream in the oyster racks at the mouth of Bundaba Creek and Rocks Awash, with young Laurie Beckett working lures on the Middle Island drop-offs for 18 fish to 1.1kg.
Squid around the moorings in Shoal Bay and off the Sally jetty. Sand whiting in quality and numbers on Jimmys Beach from the Boulders to Barnes Rock and trumpeter whiting from the Middle Grounds.
Rocks:
North-easters have made conditions difficult. A good run of luderick on Cemetery Point with Ian lane nailing a ripper of 1.4kg cleaned. Salmon schooling around One Mile Head and Sunny Corner with a few kingies. Solid squire on Fishermans and Fingal Head.
Beaches:
Stockton producing the best run of whiting for years. Bream starting to appear. Dusky flathead moving out of the Hunter and up the beach. Jew at their prime leading up to the full moon. Plenty of whiting on One Mile, Kingsley and Fingal.
Offshore:
School jew from 6-10kg on the inshore reefs, the 21 and the Inner V. Trag on Gibber and Gunsight. Kingies on Looking Glass and Urally. Horses around 20kg on the Seals and Eadith Breaker. Trevally on 21 and Buladelah wide, squire at the front of Fingal Light, Boat harbour and Telegraph Shoals. Dolphin fish turning up at last! Small ones (1-2kg) on the Minefield with bigger ones to 8kg on the traps wide of Gibber.
Salamander BAIT AND TACKLE Graham Duffy 4982 0711
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Watch this space!
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Starting next week!
Windybanks Bait and Tackle John & Anne Windybanks 9477 1501
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Just as they did last year, the harbour has been invaded by millions of 25mm glass whitebait, with the minute baitfish seeking shelter from the predators around rocky foreshores at the end of the beaches. Spin men have been landing 3-5kg salmon off Barrenjey Headland on small silver spinners, with early morning and late afternoon the go.
Bruce Olsen reports pan-size snapper at the Hole in the Wall at Avalon using 100g sinkers and casting pillie tails wide. large whiting are still biting hard on live beach worms in the shallows at Warriewood. Otto, the local flat rock fish from Curl Curl, reports striped tuna boiling up at South Curly, but they’re ignoring everything but tiny flies or spinners.
Our flyrod specialist, Paul Ohagen, caught dusky whaler sharks while fishing for jewies on Tuesday night.
in the harbour, boat fishos have been lapping up the abundance of pelagics feeding on matchstick-size bait. Des from Fish Outta Water reports kingfish turning up in unexpected areas. In Des’s eight-fish session, he found kings popping up between Wedding Cakes and Middle Head, with stickbaits working well. Bonito are in plague proportions around Dobroyd Point and the entrance to the harbour, as Craig McGill of Fishabout tours found out on Sunday morning.
The offshore scene has football fields of striped tuna working 300m off Dee Why Headland, according to FOW’s ‘Captain Kurt’. He recommends trolling small glass flies (Felties flies) for these fussy fish.
On Sunday, one Sydney Gamefishing Club boat caught 40 smallish dolphin fish from the FADs off Dee Why. Ross Hunter’s Broadbill found a purple patch of marlin on Sunday to tag four, and experienced a triple hook-up! Captain Kurt and FOW staff fished Monday and found a 130kg blue marlin which dug its heels in for four hours until it was tagged.
Fish Outta Water Peter or Kurt 9949 9488
fishon@ozemail.com.au
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Coming soon!
Mako Tackle Greg Mercedes 9600 6999
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