Albany Catches
Picture: While your toes might get cold, there are still great rewards to be had for those wading the flats for bream in winter (photo courtesy of @massamone)
King George whiting devotees have been picking up reasonable catches of 30 to 40cm fish in the cleaner waters of both harbours and King George Sound. Bigger KGs of more than 45cm have mostly been coming from near Michaelmas and Breaksea Islands while mixed catches have been caught from the inshore areas of Cheynes Beach and Two Peoples Bay. Plenty of sand whiting have also been found in similar areas, however squid have been a little harder to find than normal in all the mentioned areas. Apparently better catches of squid have been coming from Bremer Bay, which has also been fishing well for the common bread and butter species. The boats, which worked the 60 to 85m depths in local waters and similar depths east and west of town, picked up some nice queen and pink snapper, breaksea cod, samson fish and dhufish.
Salmon have continued to turn up along the coast in small schools rarely bigger than two dozen fish. Nanarup, Emu Point, Bornholm, Lowlands, Shelleys, Cheynes and Bluff Creek were among the spots where the 3 to 7kg salmon were encountered this past week. Herring and some nice skippy have also been present along the coast. Plenty of sand whiting have been caught at Cables. Tailor to 2kg have been turning up early morning and dusk west of Walpole. While the King and Kalgan rivers have been fishing well for black bream, some very good sessions have been recently experienced in Wilson Inlet.
Esperance Catches
Picture: The south coast offers some of the best squidding in the state.
A good mix of bread and butter species including herring, skippy and squid can be sought at the Taylor Street Jetty and the Bandy Creek Boat Harbour with black bream an addition at the latter. A customer of Southern Sports and Tackle enjoyed an entertaining session last week, catching and releasing dozens of salmon from a big school at Stockyards. Smaller salmon schools have been regularly turning up at Salmon Beach, Blue Haven, Fourth Beach and Roses.
Big herring and some nice size skippy have also been picked up at the local beaches. Bigger skippy to 2kg, herring and salmon have been the main species caught at Thomas. Poison Creek has salmon and tailor. The dinghy and small boat fishers continue to do well on whiting, squid and snook within a mile or so from shore.
