Welcome to Recfishwest’s weekly fishing report, brought to you by Recfishwest’s fishing expert Joachim Azzopardi, John Curtis for his Mandurah and Surrounds report and Matt Cox for the latest in Kununurra.
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Esperance Catches
Picture: Still some salmon around for the beach fishers and as the picture suggests, they release really well making them a great catch and release fish for the whole community (Photo courtesy of Tony Tropiano).
Boats:
Crews who ventured to the islands and beyond scored mixed bags of queen snapper, harlequin fish, breaksea cod and nannygai. Schools of samson fish were encountered in a range of depths and areas. Dinghy and small boat fishers have continued to pick up their usual catches of herring, squid, sand whiting and skippy within a mile or so of the coast.
Shore-based:
The Taylor Street Jetty has been producing herring and squid most days while the Bandy Creek Boat Harbour has plenty of herring and the odd King George whiting. Salmon are being regularly caught at Salmon Beach and Fourth Beach together with herring, skippy and flathead. Alexander Bay has mulloway, herring and skippy. Bigger mulloway have been landed at Thomas River.
Albany Catches
Picture: The jetty at Middleton Beach is a great place to take the kids fishing. You can catch squid, herring and plenty of whiting. If there’s squid ink on the jetty, you know someone has caught squid there recently!
Boats:
Most of the reef fishing performed this past week was along the coral clusters in 50m to 80m where fair catches of pink, red and queen snapper as well as the odd dhufish, breaksea cod and harlequin fish were achieved. There were a few crews who made it to the edge of the shelf and beyond, which depths mostly produced hapuka and grey-banded cod.
Schools of yellowtail kingfish, samson fish and pink snapper have been regularly turning up at Maude Reef and Vancouver Reef. The inshore areas have been a little hit and miss and this is largely due to the discoloured water in these parts. Some boats managed to bag a feed of King George whiting and squid while others have had very little to show for their efforts. Sand whiting and small skippy have been a tad easier to come by inshore than the previous mentioned species. Small-bibbed minnows trolled along the seagrass areas are likely to produce snook. Pink snapper, mostly a touch under 50cm, are evident within King George Sound.
Shore-based:
Surf fishers were able to hook onto a few salmon at Nanarup, Bornholm, Shelleys and Cosy Corner during the week. Bremer Bay has been producing perhaps the biggest numbers of salmon, Bornholm has tailor some mornings and evenings and herring have been thick at Sand Patch some days.
If the Bremer River has not opened by the time this is distributed, then it is very close to bursting its bank. Mulloway and pink snapper are always a chance at the adjacent shoreline during this event. Black bream enthusiasts have been catching dozens of fish in the King and Kalgan during single sessions, however most the fish have rarely been bigger than 25cm. The King is worth trying for mulloway.
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