Port Lincoln 7/4/11
Elliston
In Waterloo Bay and off the jetty there are trevally, nice size garfish and tommies; bigger tommies and more of them are being caught from the jetty at night.
Lock’s Well
Good numbers of salmon to 3 kilo salmon have been caught.
Sheringa
A few whiting and flathead came from the first beach, while salmon around 2 to 4 kg were reported from the surf beaches.
Convention Beach
Salmon & big tommies have been regularly caught over recent weeks.
Almonta/Gunyah Beach
Plenty of nice size salmon at both Gunyah & Almonta Beaches; some anglers are topping up bags with large mullet in the surf.
Farm Beach
Whiting fishing has been poor lately with many boats struggling to get more than a feed.
Coffin Bay
Legal whiting are patchy but most bays have good numbers of salmon trout, mackerel, garfish and tommies.
Port Lincoln
There has been some nice tommies coming in from the main wharf and on some days there have been plenty of salmon trout when the pilchard boats have been unloading.
There has also been some undersize snapper caught, but were below the legal length of 38 cms.
Horse rock area and Tulka has still been producing a feed of good size whiting and plenty of tommies.
Tumby Bay
There are a few whiting on the ballast and hospital grounds and garfish are should be starting at the Sandhill’s. South of the town around Second Creek there are salmon trout, garfish and tommies. Like Port Lincoln waters the garfish are around in fair numbers but for the last few weeks have been reluctant to bite.
Port Neill
Boat anglers have been successful on whiting from the northern grounds and they are also getting squid, garfish and snook. Some nice rugger snapper have been taken from the inshore grounds with some of the larger specimens up to 5 kilo.
The local beaches are worth trying for both yellow fin whiting and mullet.
Arno Bay
There has been reasonable squid and whiting catches in the bay and for snapper the better places are out wide with inshore grounds a bit quiet.
Port Lincoln Anglers Club
Members held a very successful outing last Sunday fishing the coast line south of Tumby Bay. A wide variety of table were caught including garfish, trevally, whiting, salmon trout, yellow fin whiting and a host of other edible species. Heaviest fish for the day was a trevally weighing 1.14 kilo; the successful angler was Pip Norsworthy.
Division winners were:-
Overall winner on the day was Pat prow with 170 pts.
Men’s John Peters 165pts, runner up Nathan Paterson 125pts
Ladies Donna Peters 115 pts, runner up Heather Hampel 90 pts
Veterans Pat Prow 170 pts runner up Tom Tierney 135 pts
Juniors Riley Peters 120 pts, runner up Stuart Mesecke 60 pts.
The next outing will be a casting event on Sunday 17th at Greenpatch. Members to leave from Clubrooms at 9.00am and should bring picnic lunch, drinks and chairs.
This report has been supplied by Spot On Fishing & Camping World - Port Lincoln
