Narooma News fishing report - Autumn kings
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FINALLY, some good weather for fishing on the South Coast.
What’s better than good weather is some great fishing, and we certainly saw that this week.
Montague Island kingfish had their best session for the season on Saturday, and some nice kings stayed around on Sunday and Monday.
The question is now ‘How long will they stay?’, I wish I had the answer!
Local fishers Harry DeHass and ‘Bunny’ caught one of the better kings over the weekend, the beast weighed in at 10.5kg, and was taken on the north end of the island.
This is certainly an encouraging sign, and we might even see some ‘winter kings’
The Canberra Yellowfin Tournament was held over the weekend at Bermagui, a total of 82 boats entered.
With an average of three people per boat, plus associated family and friends, it means that approximately 300 visitors boosted the Bermagui economy.
The tournament recorded a variety of fish, with a 80.4kg yellowfin, 142kg striped marlin, spearfish, dolphinfish and plenty of striped tuna. Narooma charter boat ‘The Sheriff’ entered the tournament and landed a nice striped Marlin weighing 115kg caught on 15kg line.
Beach fishing has been quite productive from Brou to Tilba, with best results achieved at either first or last light. Gummies, salmon and tailor are on the menu.
After weeks of excellent fishing, Wagonga Inlet has started to slow, this means that the fishing in the inlet is now good - as opposed to the excellent fishing of the last six weeks.
Fishing Joke of the Week: There’s 10 times more fishing licenses sold than marriage licenses each year which proves fishing is 10 times more popular than marriage.
Fishing Soap Box: The first person was injured on Sunday using the Mill Bay boat ramp, how many more will be hurt before the Apex Park boat ramp changes are complete?
- John Moore
From trophy browns to hefty kings in a weekend
WHERE else can you go from trophy brown trout to hefty kingfish all in one weekend?
The South Coast/Snowy Mountain region is a fantastic place to be living for anglers who enjoy a diversity of species.
On Saturday morning I was standing knee deep in the Eucumbene River enjoying the annual brown trout spawning run, which truly is a world class fishery that attracts fishers from around Australia and potentially around the world.
While the river flow over the weekend was a bit down and the water crystal clear, the fish were plentiful if a little tougher to catch.
A good strategy was to go down to 4-pound leader particularly on the leader connecting the glo-bug or egg pattern to the tungsten headed nymph on a dropper below.
Using as much weight as possible in the form of split shot also ensured the flies were down on the bottom bumping the fish in the face.
Some would argue the brown require thinning out, but there is a strict one fish per day limit and this fish has to be at least 50cm in length.
So that was Saturday morning. And after a leisurely three-hour trip down Brown Mountain it was back home setting up the boat for a Montague Island trip on Sunday morning.
The kingfish fishing on Saturday was some of the best all year, but by Sunday it was mostly “rats” or undersize fish taking jigs in the morning.
I was however able to get onto a bigger fish, my first legal size fish in what seems like a year, using a whole small squid on a running rig left out the back while I was jigging up the rats.
Bang there it was a nice kingfish just over 70cm and I couldn’t be happier – what a weekend!
- Stan Gorton