Merimbula Big Game and Lakes Angling Club President, Shane Mayberry, with one of three bream he caught at Mogareeka at Tathra recently.
The fishing is pretty slow on all fronts at the moment.
The outside fishing has been hard since last week’s report. The water temperature in close has dropped to between 14 and 15 degrees and the water quality is a dirty green. I have a report from one boat out Sunday in the sloppy sea conditions. They fished for the morning for five flathead. Fourty metres was their best producing depth. They also reported that they were having problems keeping bait on their hooks as the red spot (school) whiting were ferocious.
The reefs are pretty slow and patchy also with pansize snapper and morwong being caught, along with snapper into that 40 centimetre range and morwong around that 35 centimetre size. You need to fish the tides and fresh squid is the bait of choice. Long Point and Haycock reefs are the reefs to try.
A bit of swell on Sunday should stir up the beach fishing for salmon and tailor. Tura Beach has some good deep gutters and sand banks to hold the fish.
The estuary fishing is pretty hard right now. The Pambula Lake has some salmon and tailor in it, but they are moving around. Thursday afternoon they were up stream off the boat ramp and then they were in the channel between the ramp and the lake. They are on the move, so keep an eye out for birds working bait or fish busting up. Merimbula is clear and quiet and Tathra has odd bream and trevally along the rock walls as well as odd salmon around the bridge. There are a lot of casts between fish.
The game fishing has been slow and the weather hasn’t been good enough. The water on the shelf is around 16 degrees. There is hotter water towards Bermagui, around 18 degrees, but it’s out over the second drop off.
The Merimbula Big Game and Lkaes Angling Club has its presentation night next Saturday night at the Lakeview Hotel, starting at 6pm. We need to know final numbers by Wednesday the 6th August. Call Shane on 0428 424 496 if you would like to come along. Following that is the AGM on Monday evening, 11th August, starting at 7pm at the MBGLAC clubroom.
Coming up there is a Tackle Buy Swap Sell night planned for Friday 22nd August and all are welcome.
The club is open this Friday night, opening at 6pm. Come on down and enjoy a cold bevvy, support our raffle sponsored by Goodalls Butchers and the Bar Beach Kiosk. Come and catch up on what’s biting.
Till next week. Fishy Fellow