South coast estuaries

 

 

 

Tuross: This estuary is still closed to the ocean and with no rainfall due it will remain closed for a little while yet. Tuross was starting to pick up with bream, flats and blackfish being taken down the lower sections till Easter. It has slowed up now with the water cooling but there are still some quality fish if you look in the right places. There’s been reports of some people illegally netting the lower sections to, if this is right these scum bags need to be caught and I urge anyone with information to come forward and let the authorities know.

 

Narooma: Been patchy but when it’s good it’s real good. We’ve managed 4 jewies in there over the last few weeks with the best going 9kg and a meter long. These bronzed brutes are holding around the tailor schools which are plentiful at present and all the fish we have caught have been on plastics. Fishing the deeper water there’s been bream, legal snapper to 50cm and still a few nice flatties coming out so it’s definitely worth a look.

 

Merimbula: Fishing the best out of all the systems I think. Catches of 40 fish for the day are the norm at the minute with flats, bream and trevally making up the bags. There’s plenty of tailor around also, casting shiners will do the trick. Smaller plastics fished in the shallows have worked with bait fishos also doing ok on fresh striped tuna and prawns.

 

Wonboyn: Has slowed up a bit but some nice estuary perch and bream are around with plenty of flatties further upstream. Our last session there yielded quality flats to 75cm, bream to 40cm and quite a lot of tailor again upstream. Fishing the rockwalls above the power lines has worked well of late with vibes getting a few fish.

 

Also just to let you know we are guiding this winter at Mallacoota. I already have June booked out but there’s plenty of room for July, August and September. We are only targeting bream and estuary perch on plastics and hard-bods this winter.

 

Tight lines all

 

Stuart Hindson

Aussie Fish Estuary Adventures

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