Craig Philp
ANOTHER stunning weekend was enjoyed by anglers along the Limestone Coast.
Lumpy seas and fresh afternoon sea breezes kept the offshore guys on their toes but the tuna seem to relish the conditions.
There was a real assortment of sizes out off the coast, with fish from 12kg right up to that magical 100-plus kilo mark.
Well done to Adam Sims who christened his new boat with his first barrel tuna that went 94.7kg.
His deckie Bodhi Pannenburg followed it up with an absolute monster that went 155.55kg, which actually took a live bait.
The charter boats out of Port MacDonnell are working flat stick and providing their clients with results I believe are second to none anywhere in Australia, if not the world.
One young bloke, Mitch Herdman, booked Jamie Widdison’s boat, Extreme Marine and boated five big tuna in two days, four of those on one day.
Now that is pretty amazing.
I believe Jason Fulham’s Port MacDonnell Fishing Charters have also put his clients onto big tuna most outings over the last week.
The bottom fishing has also been productive for those not keen on trolling all day, with plenty of flathead, gummys and schoolies and the normal assortment of bottom fish.
Whiting catches seem to have slowed down just a little for those land based.
We are starting to see a few more mullet, tommies and salmon trout.
Out in the boats they are still doing okay though.
I heard of a couple of serious catches of big whiting boated in Carpenter Rocks and Lighthouse Bay over the weekend.
Those putting in the time are still getting a feed inside the Port McDonnell breakwater.
Garfish catches have been excellent right along the coast with the average size right up there.
Hut Bay and Livingstons have also been mentioned regularly.
There are no real salmon reports yet, other than inside the Port MacDonnell breakwater.
Some of those fish have been of good size for the area, with some pushing the kilo mark.
All the other hotspots have not fired up yet but will not be long.
The Glenelg River is still fishing well with good numbers of bream right throughout.
The mulloway continue to frustrate everyone.
There are good numbers of fish but they are spread out.
Neville Isaacson boated a lovely 85cm fish at the bottom of Taylors Strait Monday afternoon on a live mullet.
I have heard of a few others landed by local putters trolling livies.
Jamie (Coates) and his partner in crime, Tim Carrison are having a ball up in Rockhampton chasing barra.
It has taken a few days to dial in on them but they seem to be slaying them now.
They just have to compete with bull sharks.
It looks like the weather is staying fairly stable over the next few day.
All the best and stay safe.
