Fishing Report 27 July 2020
Weather for the Week.
Apart from today’s rain the weather is
not looking bad for the rest of the week, with Wednesday and Thursday been good
fishing days, Tuesday will be a bit unsettled.
Lagoon
At last we are having some rain and it
will properly lead to the river going back to its normal colour after been so
clean the last few weeks and this could be an end of the Shad run we had. An
Angler over the weekend got a bit of a fright when the Thorn or Tiger fish he
was reeling in was taken by quiet a big Diamond right near the bank, who says
these fish don’t make good live bait, a few Diamonds have been caught on artificial
lures recently adding to a list of fish that can be caught on them. A very big
River Snapper was also caught meaning they are still here, we did see some
decent size ones from the boat on Friday heading towards the N2 bridge as the
water was clean we could see them under branches.
Surf
The Beaches are now open to angling
with a very big BUT you have to be in position of an angling licence and you
must go directly to your spot to fish, in your tackle box you must have a
little bottle of sanitizer. A family may fish as a group provided all members
have a valid fishing licence the rest of us must social distance not that that
will be a problem as there is plenty of space, yesterday the was a couple
fishing with 2 small children and they were told to leave the kids at home next
time, I think this has to do with gazette no 42410 d/d 3 June 2020. The park is
open from 6am to 3pm for fishing at the lagoon and main beaches.
Ski boat
Snoek were caught close in on Friday and
I am sure the boats that were fishing close in around the Glenton Reef area.
Merriman got a nice big Catface Rockcod which he released and a rare visitor a
Striped Grunter another rare catch Merrimen had was a White Edge Rockcod it
seems like it was his weekend., these Grunter tend to live on the reefs and are
one of the only species of grunter that do not visit the estuarine system as
they have a very low tolerance of the salinity in the water. The mouth and area
leading up to it is getting very shallow especially as we are going into neap
tide and more and more boats are returning on the beach, all good so far
however the snag is the ramp and beach itself is very soft even the rock
robbers mentioned this maybe over time the vehicles will compact the sand on
the ramp, Ross mentioned to me how he and Greg struggled to get off the beach
because the ramp was so soft.
