Fishing Report 15
April 2019
Monday
SW gusting 22 by the late afternoon partly cloudy with rain
forecast most of the remainder of the day, max temp 25. Wave height 1.4-1.8
period 8-10 barometer 1008-1010.
High Tide 00.49 Low Tide 07.06
Tuesday
SW gusting 7 swinging late afternoon to S gusting 19. Partly
cloudy with rain forecast in the morning and evening with a max of 24. Wave height
1.4-1.9 period 9 barometer 1009-1015 ( a nice rising barometer)
High Tide 01.43 Low Tide 07.56.
Wednesday
A day of many winds, first thing we have a SW gusting 10
then during the morning it swings to a SE gusting 4 before settling to an E
gusting 9 for the rest of the day. Partly cloudy with some rain forecast and a
max of 23. Wave height 2-2.2 period 8-13 barometer 1017-1015.
High Tide 02.25 Low Tide 08.37.
Thursday
I will be doing an Easter report on Thursday morning for the
weekend.
Lagoon
Well done to the parks board for another successful anti-poaching
patrol and recovered some nets but sadly they had a lot of dead fish in them. 2
boats had some fun with Diamonds (or maybe they were Brown Skates) in the mouth
area but lost both fish. Shad were in the lagoon but no catches were reported,
they seem to be making regular appearances and even take small live bait. The
tides this week suit the morning session the best.
Surf
The main beach fished well over the weekend with reports the
guys droning on Saturday got 2 Diamonds, one of 1.85m and one of 2m, Prof
managed to hook into a Duckbill Ray and that gave him a nice workout. Shad
making size were caught in numbers and there are small Kob amongst them, let’s
do the right thing and throw them back. Deadman’s at Port Dunford as always
produced some Diamonds and I believe some nice Shad were caught on the Shangri
La beach, No news from the Banks and Lucky Dip was busy as usual. Doggies is
very shallow which is great fun for the wading guys to test their skill. The
Shad been caught even though they are making size they are very thin, rather
put them back so they can fatten up a bit.
Ski boat
There are 2 obstructions in the channel when you cross from
the Stone Wall till you are in the mouth, one is a submerged log midday between
the Stone Wall and the south bank and in the mouth itself is a partially
submerged gill net an angler cut as much of it up as he could, this can be a
dangerous situation so be on the lookout for other nets been strung across the
mouth, I have reported the net to the parks board to see if they can use a vehicle
to drag it out. On the fishing side some nice catches of Snapper Kob have been
made and some other bottoms, no reports of game fish in local waters.
Next events.
Beach Blast
This weekend is Beach Blast takes
place mainly on the main beach and is free for kids from grade 1 to 7. All
activities have adult supervision. They have 2 sessions per day and each
session has a different themed game, great fun.
We have an 8 sleeper house (can sleep 10 as it has 2 double beds) should a
group want to hire it, it is self-catering with ample bait storage space.
