Welcome To This Week’s Edition of Tight Lines 

There’s options aplenty this week as we finally transition into weather patterns that are usually associated with the onset of Spring. The water clears up, bait schools start to traverse our coastal waterways and enter the estuary systems and the now warmer water becomes alive with life.

Firstly to the crayfish! All signs point to the idea that our local crays have entered their moult phase. We can observe this via the reduction of cray feeding activity and catch rates in pots. Getting eyes on the activity by taking a dive also confirms this story. Get your pots in early to secure your spot and to ensure you don’t miss the start of the whites run.

As whitebait schools become abundant, we are seeing one of the best bites of Tailor and Juvenile Salmon that the estuary has seen for years. Casting baits or artificial lures around drop off zones and into patches of cleaner water will yield great results while throwing a surface lure around or trolling one behind a boat makes for some amazing surface strikes.

Good numbers of sand whiting and squid can be found along our nearshore weed beds with the squid also being caught in numbers along local rock walls.

Slightly further offshore the bluefin tuna are keeping anglers occupied between spots and this time of year good numbers of Samson Fish and Amberjack can be found on the more prominent lumps with the odd Yellowtail Kingfish being a very welcome addition to the bag.

For the light tackle enthusiast, plenty of bream can be found moving into the Serpentine and Murray river systems and occupying the snags while a cast into the deeper runs will find a small mulloway or two.

And finally to our local gold! The Yellowfin Whiting on lures fishery is really starting to heat up in our estuary system with anglers finding great numbers along the open flats and among the weed beds. Area’s to try include the Len Howard Reserve shoreline, The bottom end of Cox Bay and the grounds south of the Boundary Island Brewery. 

The go-to lures are definitely Daiwa Slippery Dogs and Bassday Sugapens along with the old faithful Ecogear PX55 and if you prefer a subsurface presentation you can’t go past the TT Switch Prawn and Ecogear Zx lures.

Wherever you get the chance to wet a line this weekend as always, good luck tight lines, and remember every day’s a good day for fishing.


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