Port Lincoln Fishing Report 4/3/10

We all get a buzz when our kids score a nice fish for the first time. Tim Davis took his son Brock fishing off Point Sir Isaac recently where Brock was able to catch his first snapper. 6-year old Brock is shown holding up two fine examples of the snapper he caught that day.

The happy fellow with the tuna is local keen angler Paul Park. Paul was out by the tuna pens when he landed this 25 kilo fish. During the fight the fish managed to wrap itself around the prop but with the help of as good deckie mate Paul was able to get the line free and land the fish.

Dave Clayfield, skipper of Why-Not Charters has been prospecting for new ground out from Streaky & Ceduna. Catches varied with kingfish, sharks, morwong, large whiting, nannies and a real variety of other reef species.

In one area over two days, clients caught and released over a 100 Samson fish.

In one spot a school of salmon appeared with one monster of 16lb being landed. The biggest salmon Dave has seen come aboard was from an earlier trip to Greenly Island where a customer pulled in a whopper close to 19lb, the angler initially thought it may have been a kingie by the way it fought.

Some of the results are shown in the accompanying images.

 

Leah Mc Donald is the happy holder of the kingfish, the successful angler of the large harlequin fish is Chris Parkinson.

Now for what was biting and where

Elliston

Unfortunately the weather has hindered efforts for most fishers over the weekend, but there has been a few trevally, squid and tommies caught from the jetty.

Anxious Bay has produced some whiting and nice sized crayfish over the last week, at Waterloo Bay some garfish and whiting were landed and at Locks Well only a couple of fair sized salmon have been reported.

Sheringa

Due to the windy weather there have not been any reports of catches at this location, although some schools of salmon have been seen close to the coastline.

Gunyah Beach / Almonta Beach

Salmon schools are constantly moving along these beaches. Fish landed have varied greatly in size from large salmon trout up to about 3 kilo.

Port Lincoln

Town jetty has a variety of fish on offer including tommies, chow, a few yellowfin, mixed size kingfish from well undersize to about a metre in length. Reports of small kingfish have also come from out at the Group, Boston Island, Proper Bay and the North Shore.

Small catches of whiting have been taken top end of Boston Bay, along the north shore over by the monument and horse rock, anglers have been pestered by trumpeters in many areas.

There are snook in the Passage, around Boston Island and off local jetties.

 

 

 

Tumby Bay

Fishing efforts have been hampered by the terribly windy conditions over the last week and there are no reports of any catches from anglers.It will be a very different story next week after the weather settles and fishers can get out amongst the fish again.

Port Neill

Before the windy weather arrived, a few boaties were getting some great catches and bag limits of King George Whiting in the area.Some persistant anglers were also braving the conditions on the jetty and catching garfish in the morning,tommies and squid AM and PM.

Arno Bay

Snapper and whiting catches remain consistently good for boat anglers and shore anglers are getting some nice fish from the beaches.

 

Cowell

There have been many reports of numerous blue crabs, they have plenty of meat in them and of good size. Crabs can be caught both from the jetty and by using crab nets from boats. Yellowfin whiting in good numbers are being caught on both natural and artificial baits.

Port Lincoln Anglers Club

Despite winding conditions, members fished the Coles Point / Greenly Beach area for good mixed bags of whiting, mullet, salmon trout, garfish, sweep and tommies.

Heaviest fish for the day was a salmon just under a kilo caught by Allan Stagg.

Other winners for the day were

Juniors Reece Chamberlain on 25 points

Ladies Heather Hampel 105 points with Julie Bascombe 60 points

Men both Wayne Bockman and son Bradley tied on 150 points each with Wayne edging ahead to win on a countback.

Veterans close competition with Syd Calverley on 135 points just in front of Allan Stagg on 105 points.

This report has been supplied by Spot On Fishing & Camping World - Port Lincoln