Fishing Report 18 January 2021
Weather for the Week.
We having a lot of South wind for this
time of year, remember the good old days of counting 3 days of North them
planning a trip for Diamonds, well it ain’t going to happen this week.
Lagoon
On Saturday some angles saw a massive school
of fish entering the lagoon and been silver in colour they expected a Shad
smash however it was a very big shoal of Walla Walla, these are very rare
visitors to the estuary and it was nice to hear they paid us a courtesy call,
they were not in the river for long before moving out to sea. People often ask
how to catch mullet without a net, they can be caught on hooks with bait preferably
floating the bait on the surface or just under, a young fella caught one
following the chum trail behind the boat with a small piece of squid it turned
out the be a Bull Mullet which are not abundant as they used to be , probably
because of gill netting but make good bait for big River Snapper talking of
which young Wesley lost a monster one next to his boat while trying to land
one, he is now in the market for a landing net as he does not gaff due to the
fact he releases his big fish he also got some very nice size River Bream
during that session all on live bait. Yesterday while Doc was trawling in the
river behind his fish ski he hooked into a Snapper Kob again not a common
visitor to the Estuarine System, maybe this is because the water is cleaner
than normal.
Surf
Rats and mice again over the last week
and weekend however the big Shad are still been caught together with some nice
Snapper Kob, yesterday one of the guys had his Snapper taxed. People are asking
all the time ‘Where on the diamonds” well clearly in the sea is not the correct
answer so we went looking behind the dunes and guess what? They are not there
either. Seriously I think they are following a weather pocket that is not here
at the moment and we may have a late season, water conditions temperature etc.
seem right for them but seem more elusive than the winter ones. The guys are complaining
about their lines getting bittern off way up the line above the casting leaders
and yester Prof and Jan Sambriel had 4 bites offs between them with Prof
hogging 3 of them and this is Jan’s report “ While watching the lines in the waves
we saw that grass was accumulating on the line and not long afterwards they saw
a milky come and bite the grass and the line went slack, we think the line is
causing vibration and the sharks comes to investigate the vibration and takes a
bite of the grass and bites through the line”, on Friday this also happened to
Lyle and we could not work out why he was losing so much line so there we have
it, baby Milkies and not Shad are biting the line off, any other theories?
Ski boat
At last the Couta are here as from
Wednesday every time the guys went hunting for them they have caught them,
young Ross skippering Believer on Wednesday got 3 then on Friday he was on
another boat and he got 4, a trip Sarel was on were not so lucky they managed
one but “wasted” time on 7 Dorado, 2 Sallies and a Marlin hahahahaha. At least
from the odd one been caught now bigger catches are been made, the biggest
Couta have been caught in green water close in behind the wreck while the
others have been caught far out on the trawl between and around the reefs along
the line from North Salmon down towards Gerries , Pats and Edwards. Shaun found
the elusive Kob and caught a lot of them only and decent size ones in a short
time and they were back early, me thinks they caught these close in.
