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: Samson fish have been caught in 60m to 70m depths off Esperance (Photo courtesy of @castaways_adventures).
Boats
Dinghy and small boat fishers have been picking up blue spotted flathead, squid and lots of sand whiting within a mile of the coast. The 60m to 70m depths have been producing nannygai to 2.5kg, breaksea cod, queen snapper and samson fish. The waters west of town are producing better catches of pink snapper.
Shore based
The Taylor Street Jetty has been fishing well for herring, skippy, King George whiting and squid. Small pink snapper, most of which have been undersize, herring and a few King George have been coming from the Bandy Creek Boat Harbour. Salmon were caught from Fourth Beach, Salmon Beach, Nine Mile, Fourteen Mile, Roses, Thomas River and Alexander Bay during the past week. Dunns had skippy to 2kg as well as mulloway, juvenile and mature salmon and herring.
Albany Catches
Picture: Black bream enthusiasts have been doing really well on soft plastics in the King and Kalgan rivers.
Boats
Very few boats made it to the coral patches spread between the 65m and 90m depths due to the undesirable weather. The odd bigger boat that managed to sneak out to these waters for an hour or two when the conditions allowed managed some breaksea cod, pink and queen snapper, small dhufish and skippy.
The somewhat protected waters near Caseys, Goode Beach and Frenchmans Bay produced King George whiting, herring and skippy for some boats while others struggled to locate these bread and butter species. The crews who managed to bag of feed inshore were those who moved from spot to spot to find the fish.
Shore based
Yellowtail kingfish and samson fish are a chance from the stones during this part of season. Salmon were caught at Bremer Bay, Bluff Creek, Cheyne Beach and Nanarup last week. Herring are around in bigger sizes and better numbers at the more remote areas of coast. Bornholm has been producing the odd tailor and bigger tarwhine.
Small black bream of less than 30cm have dominated catches in the King and Kalgan rivers. There were a couple of fish of 40cm and bigger caught in systems believed to be the King and Kalgan last week. Black bream enthusiasts recommend fishing soft plastics on a lightly weighted jig head while the water remains discoloured.
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