WHAT a great long weekend a little breezy at times, but all in all, very fishable withplenty caught.
There were no tuna reports off Port MacDonnell, but they seem to be all around us.
Portland through to Port Fairy is still producing good numbers of tuna to 30-plus kilograms, with the odd good yellowtail kingfish mixed in.
From Victor Harbour through to Beachport, the tuna numbers are excellent also.
It is quite normal to see an early run of fish around February and then the big numbers turn up off Port MacDonnell around April, so offshore anglers are not all that concerned.
Plenty of other options kept the offshore fishos busy over the weekend.
Mako numbers have been excellent out off Portland, but quite scarce off Port MacDonnell.
A few fishos told me they had trouble getting baits to the bottom out in the 100 metres due to huge schools of arrow squid.
Not a bad by catch though – they make great bait and are pretty good on the table as well.
They are a little tougher than calamari, but if you marinate them in kiwi fruit, they are delicious.
There is still plenty of snapper around.
Numbers may be down slightly, but the average size is way up.
Hot spots have been Danger Point, Pelican Point, Western Channel and Blackfellows Caves.
Anna Ferraro, fishing off the Port MacDonnell jetty, even managed a lovely 4kg snapper, along with a good size whiting and seven squid.
Garfish numbers have been good right along the coast.
Size has varied from day to day, but generally the majority have easily made size.
Bodhi Pannenburg fished Livingstons and boated a healthy catch of squid and garfish.
The surf has fished well from the Coorong, all the way through to Swan Lake all summer and last weekend was no exception.
The Southeast Amateur Surf Club’s Coorong surf competition was huge success.
First prize went to Sean Pumba Farrell with a mulloway that went 9.98kg.
Second went to Grady Janeway with a 7.2kg gummy and third to Josh Whaits with a 5.95kg mulloway.
A little closer to home Flynn Thomas beached a 94cm mulloway off Browns Friday evening.
However, dad Nathan fished out in the boat and could not manage a legal mulloway.
A lot of anglers turn their noses up at mullet, but fresh I think they are right up there with the best.
Most surf beaches and protected bays will fish well, with a steady burley stream.
A couple of lads have been fishing the Southend jetty of late and have been catching plenty.
Mulloway numbers and size are still on the increase off Danger and Green Points.
Nigel Telford boated another lovely mulloway last Friday morning that went 12.8kg on 4kg line, just another of many this season for him.
Alan Boyle from Perth boated his first ever mulloway out off Danger Point last Friday morning that went to 93cm.
The Glenelg River fished well last weekend, even with all the holiday boat traffic.
Mulloway to 5kg were caught in good numbers from Donovans right down to the estuary.
Aron Coleman fished the estuary Sunday night for two lovely mulloway and a good feed of bream.
Gary MacDonald boated a 79cm mulloway Saturday night from the same area.
The bream seem to be fairly spread out.
I have heard of fish right down on the sand and just as many up above Pritchards.
It is just a matter of moving around until you find feeding fish.
Looks like we are in for a bit of wind this weekend, so stay safe and I’ll catch you next week.
