WARM weather over the past few days has pleased South East anglers with the sea and wind both lying down, it has been fantastic.
Boaties who headed offshore have reported some nice catches of flathead and gummy shark in the 90-120m marks and good numbers of snapper is still being caught too.
The snapper ban is lifted on Friday at noon, so we will be able to bring home a feed.
The guys in the 50-70m zone have reported sharks in good numbers and some nice blue morwong and nannygai.
There have been a few people targeting mulloway along the coast recently and I am hearing of guys pestered by snapper.
The numbers and size both seem to be excellent, so let’s just hope they continue the trend once the season opens.
Plenty of mulloway have been caught and although most have been below the 82cm limit, the odd legal fish has popped up.
There seems to be plenty of baitfish hanging around, so it should only be a matter of time until the bigger fish turn up.
The surf fishing has been excellent but the fish have been spread out, so trying to hone in on one spot in particular is difficult.
Tyson Ploenges has had a couple of excellent trips, landing himself a nice mulloway and a couple of gummy shark.
Salmon numbers have been good through Canunda on most afternoons, which are also excellent baits for sharks and mulloway.
There are still the odd elephant shark cruising around along the Browns Beach area and plenty of good eating-sized gummy’s.
The Coorong has produced some nice fish, with the bulk coming from the upper reaches.
Mulloway numbers have been great with fish to 15kg the most common, although there is the odd bigger fish lurking around.
The whiting fishos have caught some beauties, both land based and in the boats.
Green Point has produced some rippers, with fish in the high 40cm range.
The landbased guys at Carpenters Rocks and inside the Port MacDonnell breakwater have done well and although they are not getting their 10 per trip, three or four fish of 40cm or better is an excellent feed.
The Port MacDonnell breakwater has seen plenty of fish caught.
Tommy ruff, salmon trout, whiting, flathead and squid have been caught from the jetty at night, and it is a great safe place to take the kids after the refurbishment.
Gar numbers have been good again, with reports coming from far and wide.
Cape Douglas and Livingstons have been the two most frequently mentioned spots, but any sheltered bay is worth a shot.
Livingstons has seen more good squid fishing, with boats finding 10 or so fairly easily.
The freshwater fishing has been red hot again, with some excellent redfin coming from Rocklands Reservoir on a mixture of cast soft plastics and trolled hard bodies.
Fish around 40cm have been the norm this year and some in there are even bigger.
Trout are in reasonable numbers at Toolondoo, but can be hard work at times.
There are still good numbers coming from Lake Wallace, which is only getting better.
Glenelg River has produced nice fish, with the upper and lower stretches doing well.
The mulloway action has been predominantly below the bridge, although there has been the odd good one caught up river.
Young Harry Taylor fished with his father Dave on Saturday night and landed a couple of legal mulloway, along with some thumper bream and even a big mullet.
There have been excellent reports of perch on surface lures in the upper reaches of the river, with some I have seen well over 40cm.
This weekend’s forecast looks fairly reasonable, so hopefully we see plenty of fishos out on the water.
Until next week, safe fishing.
