Dorsal Fin - SA Fishing Report 28/10/2015

METRO
Signs of crabs improving with better catches coming in. Some areas like Semaphore are still working hard to get a feed of legal ones. Deeper water around the 7-8 metre mark are producing better size. North of the black pole are doing better but again out in deeper water. The northern beaches are fairing the best with good size crabs and even a few for the rakers. Garfish are steadily getting better along with some nice tommies. Try Brighton, Grange, Semaphore, Silt grounds, Black pole and Port Gawler. Some ruggers are starting to filter in around Brighton and this weekends tides should improve the catches. Whiting are still being caught at Brighton, the Bag ground and some good catches are coming from the Black Pole. Snook have been doing well with some nice catches coming from the jetties late and early in the day. Squid catches continue to be strong especially around the West beach area and Glenelg. Port river has been a bit slow but there are still some nice salmon trout from the north arm down to St Kilda. West Lakes is still firing with bream. Best baits have been prawns, fresh frozen worms and live worms.

YORKE PENINSULA
Snapper are starting to show in Spencer Gulf with some nice fish coming from Jurassic Park, Stanta Anna, Corney Point, West of Balgowan and some ruggers at the Tippara reef. In St Vincent things have been a bit slow but Stansbury had some snapper a couple of weeks ago and Edithburgh is still getting some nice fish. Garfish are also out at the Tippara light, Wallaroo near messangers, Port Victoria near rocky, Ardrossan, Stansbury in bay and Edithburgh. Whiting catches are still going strong at Port Hughes, Balgowan, Chinamans Well, Port Victoria, Hardwick Bay, Edithburgh,Point Turton and there are a few big fish hanging around the Stansbury oyster leases. Squid are doing well at Port Hughes, Port Victoria, Point Turton, Edithburgh, Marion Bay, north of Stansbury past the spit, Ardrossan and Wallaroo. Jetties have been doing well on squid also with Wool Bay, Edithburgh, Moonta, Port Hughes, Ardrossan and Wallaroo being the better areas. Snook are in big numbers around Port Victoria, Edithburgh, Port Hughes and Wallaroo towards Bird Island.Port Broughton is doing well on crabs and garfish but the whiting have slowed. There is also some nice flathead being caught. Elsewhere the crabs are getting into the full swing with Ardrossan, Port Julia, Black Point, Stansbury, Moonta, Wallaroo being the better areas.

SOUTH
Big tuna continue to be caught around Cape Jaffa with fish slowly moving west. Some small mulloway have been caught at Salt creek but generally has been slow. Some mulloway came from the Goolwa beach but again were small. Plenty of mullet and salmon trout are in the Coorong. Waitpinga and Parsons are still getting some nice salmon trout along with some bigger fish at night. Rapid bay has tommies, garfish and squid but the fish can be small at times. Second Valley has some nice squid early in the mornings.

FRESHWATER
Not much to tell other than plenty of callop around Big Bend and north of Blanchtown. Yabbies seem to be scarce but the is plenty of shrimp. Big carp are being caught in the backwaters along with a lot of small silver perch and catfish in the river.

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