Albany Catches
Picture: A beautiful black bream caught in one of the local rive systems Photo Courtesy of WA Bream virtuoso Dan Coughlan (Photo: Courtesy of @Dan.Coughlan) (Instagram).
Boat fishing has mostly been limited to the inshore waters due to the inclement weather. Fortunately, there have been some nice catches coming from the protected parts. King George whiting continue to be caught in reasonably good numbers in King George Sound together with sand whiting and skippy. Squid stocks seem to be improving along the seagrass meadows close to Albany while catches of the popular cephalopod remain strong off Cheynes Beach and Denmark. When the weather allows for offshore areas to be reachable, expect there to still be fair numbers of red snapper, breaksea cod, pink snapper, big skippy and samson fish to be around the 60m to 80m depths.
The beaches east of town remain more productive than the local shore-based haunts. Schools of salmon have still been appearing along the Bremer Bay coast. Big skippy have been found in the deep gutters near Bluff Creek and the odd tailor run has been experienced early morning and dusk at Nanarup. King George whiting and squid are being caught occasionally from the shore at Frenchmans Bay.
A customer of Albany Rods and Tackle landed four big squid from the stones there last week. Plenty of juvenile salmon have been encountered along the beaches between Albany and Denmark. Black bream can be sought in both of the local river systems, however they have been very hard to tempt with hard-bodied and soft plastic lures.
Esperance Catches
Picture: Silver Trevally, fondly referred to in the West as “Skippy” has many pseudonyms: Araara, Blue Trevally, Blurter, Bruised-face Trevally, Jack, Ranger, Silver Bream, Skipjack Trevally,Trevally, White Trevally are some that come to mind. There feeding behaviour and presence is seemingly just as diverse, this one as you can see went for a soft plastic rigged for larger predators.
Surf fishers caught gummy shark and tailor at Israelite Bay’s back beach and mulloway and gummy shark at The Dunes. Thomas River has been fishing well for small mulloway, skippy to a kilo and salmon. The Taylor Street and Jane Street jetties are producing squid and loads of herring. Bandy Creek boat harbour has King George whiting, herring and black bream.
Stockyards is worth a visit with a variety of species including juvenile salmon, herring, flathead and skippy on offer. More juvenile salmon and the odd mature size fish have been coming from Salmon and Fourth Beach. The smaller boats continue to do well on sand whiting, skippy and squid inshore.
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