Port Lincoln Fishing Report 25/2/10

Brad Bishop is a very keen young angler who had never landed a tuna until he went on a trip last week with Rob Swincer aboard “Saltiga”. It was just south of Williams Island where he broke his drought by landing 4 tuna with the biggest around 21 kilos.

Not satisfied with just tuna, Brad also landed 3 kingfish taken on the troll. The photographs show Brad with one of his tuna and one of his kingfish.

Big snapper are still on the bite out from Arno Bay. John Powell is shown holding a 16 kg snapper measuring 108cms. John quickly has his photo taken and fish tagged and released. Photograph courtesy of Ash Smith of Arno Bay Fishing Adventures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of the beaches along the south coast was the place where Dallas Trinchini caught his mulloway. The mulloway measured in at 1.1 mteres and was caught on a squid head bait. We often receive reports of mulloway sightings from this stretch of coast line and Dallas has now provided proof as the photograph shows.

The very popular Greenly Island again figures in images submitted this week. Skipper Richard Webb and mates Jamie Crawford and Jason Stephenson, hooked into some nice kingies as the images show. The biggest kingies were going around 25 kilos with lots of smaller ones between 4 & 8 kilo.

Retired English Test cricketer Ian Botham spent a few days with local tourist operators “Goin Off Safari’s” and “Strictly Business Fishing Charters”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Over 50 tuna were caught and released with the bigger fish around 30 kilos. Areas fished stretched from the Cabbage Patch to Rocky Island.

Ian Botham’s son Liam was also on board and very impressed with what local operators are offering. Liam has a Fishing and Hunting Guide business back home and intends to return bringing very keen anglers out from Europe.

Other species caught included plenty of kingfish at the Cabbage Patch and at Greenly Island.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elliston

Oversized tommies are being landed from the jetty and in the last few days a huge flathead that was just under 3 foot was caught by a very lucky angler. Some big mullet and good size whiting are coming from both Waterloo and Anxious bay.

Sheringa

At the far end of the First beach, a few large salmon up to 5kg have been landed. Good sized whiting, sweep and trevally have been caught from the beaches and nannygai have been landed by the boaties from the offshore reefs in the area.

Gunyah Beach / Almonta Beach

There are salmon as usual quite a few schools moving along the beaches.

Coffin Bay

Salmon trout and snook are in most of the bays; trevally, salmon trout and one or two whiting in the town bay. Trumpeters re still a curse on the tape weed areas.

Port Lincoln

Local jetties and the wharf has small to just over legal kingfish swimming around, mixed size tommies, and snook, blue or slimey mackerel and some squid.

Along the north shore there are tommies, squid and some garfish. Snook in the same area range from undersize to some real whoppers.

Proper bay has lots and lots of trumpeter, legal whiting are hard to find in any numbers but anglers are able to scratch up a feed of tommies and a few garfish.

Outside the bay there are a few whiting at Boston Island; one nboat caught a very nice size kingfish behind the island.

Some more tuna have been taken from near the farms as well as sending a berley stream in from outside the lease area. Boats also report quite a few small sharks including baby hammerheads cruising around.

Boats venturing offshore are getting some nice whiting in the Pasage, at Thistle, Hopkins and at Dangerous Reef.

Along the south coast there are numerous schools of salmon with fish being landed from both beaches and rocks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tumby Bay

A few squid are being caught from the jetty at times, while salmon trout, mullet and garfish are still up at Second Creek. Out at the Groups, there has been some excellent catches of,at Spilsby Island besides the whiting, some small snapper and good sized snook have been reported.

Port Neill

The jetty is still producing good numbers of squid and tommies both day and night. Boaties have found a few great catches of King George whiting in the area, while Yellow fin whiting, garfish and snook have all been hooked in good numbers from the beaches.

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