Fishing Report 17 July 2020
Weather for the Weekend.
Weather going forward into the weekend
is looking good for fishing throughout the weekend as is the surf conditions
are under 2m and the colour is great.
Lagoon
Shad are still in the lagoon in the
main car park area, they are feeding off the bottom and from floated bait, I
was down there just now and saw two been caught 1 buy young Michael of about
40cm and young Lous got one of 37cm both were caught with Sard Fillets, no
other species were caught not even Grunter, we saw shoals of Mullet swimming by
as well as River Bream , the Bream were eating the chum but not bait on the hooks
not even Prawn bait could tempt them. Shad fishing in the estuary is a must
over the weekend and on light tackle they give a good box. The water in the
lagoon but its standards is clean and this might be the reason the Shad is
hanging around.
Surf
The beaches are still closed to
fishing, we think they might open in level 2 at best or level 1. This is a
government directive and not a Parks Board directive they are merely enforcing
the law as they are required to. Parks are now open for exercise so maybe the
beaches will be next.
The surf is down and looking good
there is colour in the water but it is not brown as it has been of late, fish to target over
the weekend must be big Shad 2kg plus ones and Kob into the evening and during
the night, the tides are not working in our favour being high tide in the
middle of the day but Garrick don’t seem to mind that and targeting them with
live bait late afternoon will produce results, the best place to catch these
species without moving spots will be Port Dunford. There are Spinner sharks in
the surf zone and I am particularly interested in photos of the tummies so I
can see if they have an umbilical scare or not so I can forward them onto a
research project. Bait you must have is Chokka, Sard and live bait if you can
get it.
Ski boat
Game on sea has settled time to fish
and there is good barometer movement although tomorrow has a high of 1028 in
the morning it drops to 1018 during the day, fish are supposedly more active on
a dropping barometer, the surf is small however early morning launches through
the mouth might be tricky, so the surf might be an option or a very early
launch coming back at lunch time. The mouth area from reports during the week
is that it is quiet shallow be careful.
