jturner1971 0 Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 Hi folks,I'm a recent migrant to South Australia from Austin Texas. I primarily fly fish and lure fish from my kayak. My wife and I are spending a few days in Pt Lincoln NP after Christmas, specifically at Memory Cove. Does anyone have any advice about this area? Is it worth fishing? Any hope of catching anything, Flathead, Snook, Salmon trout in Memory Cove? If so I expect soft plastics are the best bet, correct? I'd be grateful for any comments.Best regards,jt Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dutchy 451 Posted December 19, 2012 Report Share Posted December 19, 2012 amazing place plenty of fish land basedso more to explore in yakhave fun Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piratepom 3,197 Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 Hi folks' date='I'm a recent migrant to South Australia from Austin Texas. I primarily fly fish and lure fish from my kayak. My wife and I are spending a few days in Pt Lincoln NP after Christmas, specifically at Memory Cove. Does anyone have any advice about this area? Is it worth fishing? Any hope of catching anything, Flathead, Snook, Salmon trout in Memory Cove? If so I expect soft plastics are the best bet, correct? I'd be grateful for any comments.Best regards,jt[/quote']Hi mate, I've camped there a few times, and yes it is definitely worth fishing. :woohoo: We've only fished land based, but have caught big Tommies, Flathead, KGW, Squid, Leather Jackets, Sweep, Wrasse and Groper. All these were caught off the rocks not far from the beach. There is a walking trail to the right of the beach that will lead you to the rocks at the entrance of the Cove and you can fish into some seriously deep water here, which opens up some more options, but take care on these rocks, not for the faint hearted and have seen scarely big shapes in the water here. Good luck, it's a seriously beautiful place. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
piratepom 3,197 Posted December 20, 2012 Report Share Posted December 20, 2012 The view back to the beach from the walking trail. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jturner1971 0 Posted December 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2012 Thanks. Really looking forward to it. I've been told it's a beautiful spot to camp. I trust the real big fish will keep to themselves. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jturner1971 0 Posted March 4, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2013 Hi guys,Late follow up, but I ended up having a pretty successful weekend. Probably a half dozen salmon trout on the fly and about the same number of small flathead also on a fly wading in very shallow water. A bit further out in the yak, right along the weed line (which you can see distinctly in piratepom's photo), it was too deep for a fly, but caught 3 nice king george whiting between 40 and 50 cm and a dozen keeper flathead, the largest was almost 55cm - caught them on soft plastics bouncing them on the bottom up to the weed bed, then sped up the retrieve and swam them just above the weeds. Wham! Great fun. The parks and wildlife dept limit the access to Memory Cove so a beautiful spot, with very little traffic. Highly recommended. Admittedly, it's a long drive from Adelaide. Savagelip and piratepom 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wedgetail 0 Posted March 4, 2013 Report Share Posted March 4, 2013 Just a foot note Memory cove had a movie shot there back in the 80's it was called blue water white death Y tube it hope your Kayak isn't yum yum yellow :woohoo: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jturner1971 0 Posted March 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 Holy sheet. I'm glad I hadn't seen the clip before I went. Not to worry I understand in order to fight off GW shark, you just poke them in the eye...yeah right!BTW, my yak is yum yum yellow. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crusher 18 Posted May 15, 2013 Report Share Posted May 15, 2013 Hi guys' date='Late follow up, but I ended up having a pretty successful weekend. Probably a half dozen salmon trout on the fly and about the same number of small flathead also on a fly wading in very shallow water. A bit further out in the yak, right along the weed line (which you can see distinctly in piratepom's photo), it was too deep for a fly, but caught 3 nice king george whiting between 40 and 50 cm and a dozen keeper flathead, the largest was almost 55cm - caught them on soft plastics bouncing them on the bottom up to the weed bed, then sped up the retrieve and swam them just above the weeds. Wham! Great fun. The parks and wildlife dept limit the access to Memory Cove so a beautiful spot, with very little traffic. Highly recommended. Admittedly, it's a long drive from Adelaide.[/quote']hi Jturner, what plastics worked for you over there? did you catch KGW on sp's or have i drawn that conclusion myself??? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jturner1971 0 Posted May 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2013 Hi Crusher,All fish were caught on fly or soft plastics using 1/4 and 3/8 oz jigs.I've attached a photo of the most successful flies and soft plastics.On the retrieve I Iet the jig reach the bottom then three quick twitches and let the bait flutter back to the bottom. Keeping up with the slack, the fish typically took on the drop. Crusher 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jturner1971 0 Posted May 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2013 Noting the nuclear chicken (2nd from left) performed the best (i.e. caught the most fish overall). However all the KGW's were caught on the chartreuse grub (far right in the photo). And the salmon were all on fly in a few feet of water, mostly around dusk, stripping very fast. Salmon trout like the fly moving. Crusher and Del 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crusher 18 Posted May 16, 2013 Report Share Posted May 16, 2013 Noting the nuclear chicken (2nd from left) performed the best (i.e. caught the most fish overall). However all the KGW's were caught on the chartreuse grub (far right in the photo). And the salmon were all on fly in a few feet of water' date=' mostly around dusk, stripping very fast. Salmon trout like the fly moving.[/quote']Champion, Thanks for your help. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Del 245 Posted May 16, 2013 Report Share Posted May 16, 2013 Just a foot note Memory cove had a movie shot there back in the 80's it was called blue water white death Y tube it hope your Kayak isn't yum yum yellow :woohoo: while at Spec Savers today getting an eye check up ( and new prescription polaroids :woohoo: :woohoo: ) this film came up in conversation. the woman serving me, her husband shot a lot of that footage for the film, he is based down at glenelg dive now. back on topic.. great place.. my girl and i are planning a trip there for a few days! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted May 16, 2013 Report Share Posted May 16, 2013 Wholly cow...kayaking at memory cove......faaaarrrrk that!!White Death is regularly seen there and Neptune Island is only about 40kms away where they actually train dozens of different white sharks to eat people!!A cray fisherman showed me a trick once to test whether there's any white sharks about. Throw several pieces of fuel size newspaper pages into the water and wait about for about half an hour.If there's any pointers in the area their curiosity will get the better of them and they'll come up and snaffle the floating pages.Pointers will have a go at just about anything thats reasonably large and floating. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crusher 18 Posted May 16, 2013 Report Share Posted May 16, 2013 Just a foot note Memory cove had a movie shot there back in the 80's it was called blue water white death Y tube it hope your Kayak isn't yum yum yellow :woohoo: while at Spec Savers today getting an eye check up ( and new prescription polaroids :woohoo: :woohoo: ) this film came up in conversation. the woman serving me' date=' her husband shot a lot of that footage for the film, he is based down at glenelg dive now. back on topic.. great place.. [b']my girl and i are planning a trip there for a few days[/b]!anything you want me to suss out for you? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Del 245 Posted May 16, 2013 Report Share Posted May 16, 2013 make sure you catch all the big sharks... and leave me the snapper and groper ;)cheers :Pfew photos of the area/camp sites would be great! facilities etc i guess...cheers! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crusher 18 Posted May 16, 2013 Report Share Posted May 16, 2013 No worries, the wife will be driving the lens. I will let her go crazy and grab the relevant ones.Wont be catch the big sharks... Will be diving with them on Monday 24th of June. Wouldnt mind catching a gropper LB, most-def a bucket list LB species. Even some Naannygai woould be cool. Del 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Del 245 Posted May 16, 2013 Report Share Posted May 16, 2013 cant keep any groper Land based in that area. have to go past Cape Carnot in Whalers Way. to be able to keep a bluey... PM me for some land based areas if your real keen. my best landed is 20lb of the rocks.. and lost a heap more much much larger.. as for nanygai, a friend of mine caught a few of them locally in lincoln off the parnkalla trail.. as well as snapper! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Del 245 Posted May 16, 2013 Report Share Posted May 16, 2013 definitely one of the best land based fish ive ever caught.. these fish are territorial and only live in small groups so gotta treat them good! easy to fish an area out.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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