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Snapper Guardians Release Event Rescheduled
You may have seen us advertise our much-anticipated snapper release event over the past couple of weeks in our Broad Cast Newsletter and on Facebook.
Unfortunately, the event was postponed as the bad weather was not going provide keen rec fishing families the best opportunity to come down and enjoy boosting snapper stocks in Cockburn Sound.
We are holding the fish and keeping them in tip top condition until Saturday 18th February when you and your family will have the same opportunity to help release over three thousand snapper into the Sound.
We look forward to seeing you next Saturday. You can’t miss us, we are the ones with the huge grins from the knowledge that we are working together securing a fantastic fishing future for Perth waters.
Thanks for your support and we’ll see you soon.
Albany Catches
Picture: Breaksea cod are coming in with a band of other deep sea demersal species in the 60-80m depths out from Albany (Photo courtesy of @Albanyfishing).
The big school of salmon that stayed off Reef Beach for the good part of a week seems to have moved on. Judging by the schools that have been spotted moving west along the Esperance to Bremer Bay coast during the past fortnight, it should not be long for more of the popular surf fish to turn up along the local beaches. A couple of good salmon sessions were experienced at the local beaches last week. The precise location of the where the salmon were caught was not disclosed, however some local fishers suspect the 4kg to 6kg fish were landed at Fosters.
Herring of mixed sizes are present along most of the local beaches. The bigger fish, once again, are being consistently caught from the more remote areas of coast. The inshore waters of King George Sound and both harbours have been fishing reasonably well for small to medium size King George whiting, but the bigger fish have been hard to find.
Sand whiting, herring, juvenile salmon, skippy and flathead have also been a feature of inshore efforts, however squid have been hard to come by. The bigger boats have generally been doing well on breaksea cod, dhufish, pink snapper and samson fish along the 60m to 80m depths. The waters beyond the edge of the shelf have been producing hapuka while yellowtail kingfish are lurking around Maude Reef. Big numbers of small black bream continue to occupy the King and Kalgan Rivers.
Esperance Catches
Picture: Samson fish are being boated amongst the demersal species caught in Esperance the past week (Photo courtesy of @lannz04).
The boats that have been targeting bread and butter species in close have been picking up good catches of sand whiting, herring, snook and squid. Out wider, nannygai, breaksea cod, queen snapper and samson fish have been caught in reasonable numbers. Interestingly, six dhufish around the 50cm mark were also landed from waters east of town. A 2.7kg blue spotted flathead was caught at Stockyards last week.
The jetties are producing herring, small skippy and a few King George whiting. Big herring can be caught at Bandy Creek Boat Harbour and Stockyards. Salmon schools have been frequenting Eleven Mile Beach while only the odd salmon has been caught at Salmon Beach and Fourth Beach. Thomas River has salmon, skippy and the odd mulloway. Tailor to 2kg, mulloway between 60cm and 80cm have been coming from the beaches near the cliffs.
