The outside flathead fishing is still going off. Reports are telling me that there are good numbers of sand flathead up to and over 50 centimetres. These fish are being caught in depths from 40 to 55 metres right down the coast. Over the weekend I heard of areas outside the Haycock reef, off Tura Beach, Tura Heads and off Bournda Beach, so there are no excuses to go fishing and catch a feed. There was also a few gummy sharks being caught over the weekend and a pretty large one measuring up to 1.5 metres. The inshore water temperature over the weekend was sitting around 19 degrees.
The reef fishing for the Snapper Classic was out of this world on the weekend. There were 25 Anglers fishing the Snapper Classic, and between them there were, 19 fish at 50 plus cm snapper caught, 12 over 60cm, 1 over 70cm and all the pan-size eaters people took home. Most of those big fish were photographed on the measure mat, then released back to swim another day. There were also a selection of morwong, nannygai and other reef species. The caption picture was the winning longest snapper on a lure. The longest on a bait went 755mm and we had the juniors and small fry with a 680mm and a 615mm snapper to take out their section of the competition. It was great fishing for all involved.
The beaches at North Tura Beach, Haycock Beach and Tathra Beach, are still holding schools of Australian salmon which have tailor mixed in with them. Pilchards have been the best baits of late, and whole pilchards, not half pilchards. I’m told casting metals is also catching fish when they come in close enough to reach with a lure.
The estuary fishing is still fishing well, the water is crystal clear and sitting around 16 degrees at Merimbula, the best area to fish is the top lake where they’re catching tailor, salmon and trevally, fishing around the bait schools. The Bega River at Tathra, they’re still catching a few bream along the rock walls, trevally around the bridge, odd mulloway, tailor and occasional salmon. The water in the Bega River is still sitting at 13 degrees.
We have reached the end of our fishing year with the conclusion of the Snapper Classic. So coming events for the MBGLAC:-
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- The Seafood dinner night is set down for Saturday 20 June.
- Then next is our presentation night which is normally the 2nd weekend in August. So, watch this space as dates come to light.
The MBGLAC is open this Friday night, opening at 6pm come on down for a quiet beverage, enjoy some lite snacks, catch up on the week’s fishing reports, and buy a ticket in our Friday night raffle, sponsored by Goodalls Butchers, the Lakeview Hotel and the Bar Beach Kiosk. Love to see some new faces come along.
Till next week, good fishing.
Fishy Fellow