Local MBGLAC junior member, Logan Walker, captured a yellowtail kingfish at Haycock Point on the 20th December 2024.
It was recaptured on the 2nd February 2025 at Montague Island by Tim Mason. DPIRD send certificates to those that tag fish and are recaptured and Logan received this last week.
The outside flathead fishing is still giving up a feed to those that are trying. Boats are fishing from Bournda Island to just south of Tura Heads in depths from 30 to 45 metres. The flathead sizes are varying from 36 to 42 centimetres with odd bigger fish in the mix. A few gummy sharks are also being caught around the reef edges and deeper in amongst the flathead.
The reef fishing has been a bit slow. The fish are there, but have been hard to catch. Before the cyclone swells, there were some quality snapper caught to 55 centimetres. Since the seas have settled down the reef fishing should still be good with the stirred up waters.
The beaches are fishing well for salmon and tailor. Fishing the rising tide during the day with whole pilchards being the most popular bait for the salmon and tailor. Over the last week, Tathra Beach, Bournda Beach, Tura Beach and Quondola Beach have all been fishing the best. They’re also catching a few salmon around the headlands and off the Tathra and Merimbula wharves. If you’re fishing from the wharves or headlands, try floating your bait about 1.2 metres under a float and you might even catch a bonito. The beaches have whiting and bream being caught on them at the moment. The best beaches are Tathra, Merimbula and Pambula. Fresh beach worms are the only bait worth using.
The estuaries are still fishing pretty well with dusky flathead, bream, trevally, some tailor, whiting, blackfish and mulloway being caught in Merimbula, Pambula, Tathra and Wonboyn Lake systems. Lures and fresh natural baits such as nippers, prawns and live mullet baits will give you the best chance of catching a good feed.
The gamefishing was on fire early last week before the cyclonic swells slowed things down. Over the weekend the seas settled, but the wind persisted. Saturday was a good day weather wise, but listening to the Bermagui competition on my radio, things were a bit quiet. 45 boats and lots of 0.0.0 in the skeds. Sunday was a rougher and windier day, which had a decent bite around the low tide change at lunch time. A few boats out of Eden also found marlin. The marlin bite was between 70 and 250 fathoms. The water temperature is sitting around 24 degrees on the shelf. Bait was patchy, but once boats found bait, they generally found marlin.
Coming Events:
March Marlin 1st to 31st March
Rescheduled Dusky Challenge 12th to 13th April
Details can be found on our website at www.mbglac.com.au.
The MBGLAC club rooms are open at 6pm every Friday night. Come on down and enjoy a cold beverage, support the raffles sponsored by Goodalls Butchers and the Bar Beach Kiosk. Catch up on the week’s fishing reports and meet the locals.
Till next week.
Fishy Fellow