Metro Catches
Picture: #slambo, ripper of a fish caught by James. (Photo courtesy of @james_ancell)
Reef fishing enthusiasts who took advantage of the pleasant conditions earlier this week seemed to find plenty of good size pink snapper off Rockingham and Hillarys. Skippy to 1.5kg and some solid breaksea cod were picked up along Five Fathom Bank and there were a couple of dhufish around the 20kg mark taken off West End and Two Rocks. Samson fish to 20kg, and the odd bigger fish, were encountered in depths of around 40m off Rottnest Island while yellowtail kingfish in the 8 to 10kg category seem to prefer the shallower waters of less than 10m behind Garden Island and Stragglers. King George whiting continue to be caught in good numbers off Rockingham and near The Windmills and there is no shortage of plump sand whiting near Gage Roads and Five Fathom.
Squid are still about in very good numbers along the seagrass beds off Fremantle and throughout Cockburn Sound. Herring and garfish are being caught in better quantities early morning and during the calm evenings at Woodman Point, the Ammo Jetty, North and South Mole and Hillarys Marina rock wall. Early morning lure fishers have been doing well on tailor to 50cm along the Cottesloe to City Beach stretch. Black bream enthusiasts are finding some good fish around the yacht clubs in the lower reaches of the Swan River. Hard-bodied and soft plastic lures have been working well on the bream while baits have produced catches in the evenings. Flathead continue to be caught on soft plastics along the shallower parts of the river.
Jetty, Set, Go! – Point Walter Jetty
Today we’ll shine the spotlight on Point Walter Jetty. Very accessible, playgrounds, public toilets, open parks and great fishing!
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Mandurah and Surrounds
Picture: Tailor a common catch in WA, are in fact caught all over the world! From the Americas to Africa to the Mediterranean, where they are known as bluefish. (Photo courtesy of ilovefishing.com.au)
MANDURAH
Tim’s Thicket to White Hills has been a little quiet but there were still a few reports of big tailor being taken along with some school and gummy sharks. The Dawesville Cut is still producing plenty of King George whiting, chopper tailor, herring, garfish and yellow-eye mullet (pilch). Squid are also being caught in reasonable numbers. Crabbers are still able to get a feed from the deep water and also in the Mary Street Lagoon. Yellowfin whiting are starting to show up along the beaches from Madora to Secret Harbour. Black bream continue to be taken in good numbers and size in the lower reaches of both the Murray and Serpentine.
SECRET HARBOUR / PORT KENNEDY / WARNBRO / ROCKINGHAM / SAFETY BAY
Palm Beach Jetty is producing a few herring and skippy and there are a lot of squid also in the area. Fishing at night seems to be working well for mulloway, with a 10 kg mulloway being landed by a local last week. Fishers fishing from the beach have found whiting, pilch and herring. Other locations in the region that have been turning on good whiting are the Penguin Island sand bar and the beaches at Secret Harbour.
Safety Bay Yacht Club and Rockingham Beach Jetty have been producing herring and squid. There are a few herring along most of the beaches, but not in any great number. There are still some salmon hanging around Point Peron. Squid are still being caught from the jetties as well as offshore.
South West Catches
Picture: Great catches are continuing on the artificial reefs, stonker of a pinkie and a sambo (Photo courtesy of Jed Casserly)
Two young customers of Dunsborough Outdoor Sportz have continued to catch salmon along the Geographe and west coast beaches. Considering the strength of this year’s salmon season, some observers are of the view that the iconic sport fish will be lurking around in good numbers along beaches for several months to come. Herring appear to be in better numbers on the west coast with bag limits of the bread and butter species being picked up in a matter of minutes at times.
The seagrass meadows between Eagle Bay and Siesta Park are loaded with squid and a few cuttlefish. The sandy areas adjacent to the weed beds are worth trying for King George whiting. A 96cm pink snapper was among plenty of smaller fish caught in the Geographe Bay waters during the past week. The hot spots for the pinkies once again were the Four Mile and Eight Mile reefs and the artificial reefs. Shore-based fishers have also managed to land a few pinks near Abbey Beach during, and just following, a period of rough weather.
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Geraldton Catches
Picture: Nice coral trout caught on jig.
The boats that have been working the ground near African Reef and out from Coronation have been doing well on dhufish in the 3 to 8kg range and medium-size pink snapper. The crews who braved the big swells and targeted reef species near the Abrolhos Islands were rewarded with nice catches of baldchin groper, coral trout and snapper.
Spanish mackerel and yellowfin tuna were the most common pelagic species encountered near the islands. Surf fishers have been scoring tailor and herring along the Flat Rocks to Greenough River mouth stretch some mornings. The evenings along there have been better for mulloway. Good sessions have been had on whiting at some of the beaches close to town. A customer of Geraldton Sports picked up a dozen yellowfin whiting between 35 and 45cm south of the harbour last week.
Kalbarri Catches
Picture: Davo’s mulloway (photo courtesy of Kalbarri Offshore & Angling Club Inc.)
Tailor between 35 and 55cm have been turning up some mornings and evenings at Red Bluff, Wittecarra and the northern end of the Blue Holes. Stick baits and poppers have been working well on bigger tailor at Chinamans and Oyster Reef. Mulloway have been caught at Chinamans and Frustrations and there were several school-size fish landed at Wagoe during the past week.
Garfish and herring can be sought at Red Bluff, especially early morning when the wind is light. There were a few pink snapper caught from the cliffs following the recent rough weather. Black bream around the 35cm mark are common in the lower and middle reaches of the Murchison. Yellowfin whiting have started to reappear in good numbers along the sand flats.
