Fishing Report 26-Jan-06 - Courtesty of Scott Forbes - EGFC

The rains may have taken away a few of the flies this last week, but now it’s time to watch out for the biting insects, especially at the marina. Sandflies have also been thick along town beach where the weed has washed up on the shoreline after the rough seas. The better places for fishing would have to be the west side, as long as the south-west wind is not too strong.

Spangled emperor have still been thick along the beaches on the west side and baits of mullet and squid seem to be the preferred choice. The ocean has been extremely confused after the cyclone with the swell coming from all different directions. The water has been very dirty and green, however off the lighthouse in about 80m of water there is a distinct colour change to blue. Here there have been plenty of dolphin fish and small black marlin. Between the tip of the cape and north-west reef there have been hundreds of birds working schools of bait with predators such as shark mackerel and long tail tuna. The odd Spanish mackerel is also smashing up the baits on the surface.

The small Williamson surface lures have been working well on these fish as well as the usual bibbed minnows in varying depths. Fishing in the gulf recently in just 7m of water, Bob Dobson and fellow angler Jason caught two coral trout using 2 and 4m Halco laser pros. They also managed to land a couple of good mackerel in the shallow waters, showing that you don’t have to go far to get a good feed.

Watch out on GWN each day for the advert for GAMEX. The Exmouth Game Fishing Club would like to thank Jon from Exmouth Computer Services for helping put together the advert in such short time.