Fishing Report 21 December 2019
Weather for the weekend.
Saturday
NE gusting 24
by the evening. Sunny with a max of 36. Wave height 1.4-1.8 period 10 barometer
1008-1003.
High Tide ----
Low 05-23.
Sunday
SW gusting 27
first thing then drops during the day gusting 16 by the evening. Cloudy with a
max24. Wave height 2.5-2 period 8 barometer 1016-1018-1016.
High Tide 00.35
Low 06.36.
Lagoon.
The water
colour is good and warm with the mouth been open and deep after the flood there
will be a big tidal difference as we head to the spring tide. The juvenile fish
as always are keen to take baits but if you want to catch big fish use big
hooks with Chokka or Squid wrapped around a prawn or sardine even better use
live Glassies or Mullet. Can the guys using boats to fish show consideration to
the guys fishing from the banks and not go over their lines a few days ago a
boat pulled a rod into the water, luckily the rod was retrieved however that
prop has a lot of gut around it and can damage the gear box.
Surf.
At last the big
non eds made an appearance and in a spectacular way the first Big Zambie Chris
hooked was taxed by 2-4 others about 50m from the beach then a guy further down
the beach went on, we not sure what happened to him then Chris went on again
only to have that one taxed again by know there was an estimated 8 big sharks swimming
in the surf zone, eventually he was rewarded with one weighing 214kg. Another
was landed at Port Dunford. One Thursday afternoon young Gerhard fishing with a
harness had his winch broken although the tried running repairs with a massive
fish on the end of the line they ended up losing it. For the edible anglers
there are plenty of Shad and Snapper Kob to keep you busy, this morning I
watched 3 guys catching them with river rods and having great fun doing it.
Ski Boat
Please show consideration
to guys on anchor or fishing from the banks and make an effort not to ride over
their lines, they have as much right as you do to use the river besides line
around the prop shaft causes damage to the gear box. On the fishing side we see
a lot of boats going to see and mainly bottoms are been caught and we don’t
know of game fish caught in the bay. The bottoms consist mainly of Kob, Slinger
and Soldiers with a lot of small Rockcod been caught, please put them back. It seems
the shark activity on the beach was out at sea as where the Kob were so was the
tax man.
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