Fiona Beasley showing off a lovely 395mm bass caught over the weekend in the Towamba River.
The flathead fishing this week slowed a bite with the water temperature in close having dropped, sitting around 19 degrees. With the cooler water and not much current, the flathead were a bit patchy with lots of undersized fish in the mix. There were still some nice flathead caught around 40 centimetres, but plenty of throw back between the good fish. Working different depths between a couple of boats, may get you onto some numbers of fish sooner. The cooler waters might invite a few gummies in to our flathead grounds, so be ready.
The reefs are still ticking over at the moment, with pan-sized snapper and morwong and a mixed bag of nannygai and other reef dwellers. I had a report of squid being caught around the inside of the Haycock Point from a boat. They were casting towards the shore and picking them up on the retrieve. However, watch the sea closely if you’re trying this.
The surf fishing is still going well, with salmon being caught on Bournda Beach to 70 centimetres and a few bream and tarwine din the gutters using beach worms for bait. Tura Beach also has a few salmon being caught. The Merimbula Wharf also has an odd salmon being caught on live yellowtail or pilchard under a float.
Our lakes are still fishing pretty well with this cooler water. The Bega River at Tathra is giving up a few bream, perch and odd flathead and jewfish. The Merimbula Lake has good numbers of bream, blackfish, trevally and whiting being caught in the front lake on the run out tide. On the rising tide, in the Top Lake, tailor, trevally, dusky flathead, whiting and an odd mulloway. The cooler water has slowed the dusky flathead bite in all estuaries, however, they’re still catching a few, but not like weeks prior.
The game fishing is very good at present. We have a good marlin bit from Bermagui to Eden. Locally out the front of Merimbula the water temperature is around 21 degrees with the current heading to the north slowly on the shelf. The better water is towards Tathra. Find some bait and hopefully the marlin will be at that school of bait. If not, find another school and try again.
Coming events for the Merimbula Big Game and Lakes Angling Club:
Brogo Big Bass Club Social February 28th – March 2nd
March Marlin 1st -31st March
Dusky challenge rescheduled TBC
The Merimbula Big Game and Lakes Angling Club is open every Friday night from 6pm. Come on down. Everyone is welcome to meet the locals, support our weekly raffle, sponsored by Goodalls Butchers and Bar Beach Kiosk. Catch up on the week’s fishing reports and enjoy a cold bevvy or two.
Till next week.
Fishy Fellow