Tackle World Fishing Report
- The Beagle
- Apr 21, 2023
- 3 min read
Moruya River. There have been fish a plenty caught this last week. The southern wall from the anchorage down along Preddy’s wharf to the hole in the wall has been fishing very well for bream hard in along the wall and flathead out in the channel. Soft plastics, hardbodies and baits, both fresh caught or frozen have all been working. Across the river, the airport flats and the spur wall inside the river have also been producing some nice flathead, bream and the odd bonito in the main channel on a rising tide. Up around quarry wharf, there continues to be consistent run of 50cm sized mulloway. This is something we have seen all summer, and has been a refreshing sight, as Moruya river isn’t well know for its mulloway stocks. Further upstream, the hospital has been fishing very nicely for both bream and flathead coming out of the deeper holes in amongst the granite boulders. The town bridge has been fishing very well after dark, with plenty of good flathead, estuary perch and bream all hanging out under the bridge on the flats in the middle of the river. Live nippers or soft plastics sight cast to cruising fish on the flats can result in some nice captures. Try and get your live nippers suspended up off the bottom, or you will provide an easy feed for one of the many small sting rays that call the flats home. With the days getting shorter, we can expect to start seeing some good numbers of estuary perch starting to school up in the deeper holes on the outside bend of Yarragee.
Tuross river. With a dark last night, focus has been on a late season bag of prawns in Coila lake this week. Along with the prawns, there have been good reports of mud crabs for those setting crabs pots also this week. We have plenty of prawning or crabbing gear if that is something that is of interest to you. Just come into the store and ask for advice. The Tuross system itself is still in full swing, with good numbers of all species being caught throughout the entire system this week. From the flats on the potato point side to the main boat ramp, up under the Bodalla bridge and up into the Bumbo and Borang lakes, the fish have been ready to take a bait or lure. The corner of Bumbo creek and Tuross river has a nice deep hole, one that quite often holds a few nice flathead, mulloway and estuary perch. It can be accessed on land as well as by boat or kayak. Four ways in the middle of the system, this time of year has plenty to offer, with good numbers of flathead, bream, whiting and estuary perch all available to be caught. Get out and enjoy, what in my opinion is the best time of the year to fish.
Rock and beach.
The Moruya breakwall has continued to offer plenty of land based options this week, with salmon, tailor, bream, flathead, trevally and Luderick all on offer to those fishing this prime spot location. The inside spur wall, also has plenty to offer, and is often overlooked.
All the beaches are fishing very well at the moment, the mullet run would appear to be in full swing, with the beach netters working the beaches at the moment. The mullet run signals the chance to get onto a nice beach mulloway this time of the year. I know that there are plenty of keen anglers trying their luck on the beach at the moment, all in search of the silver ghost.
Offshore.
Snapper, flathead, gummies and dolphinfish have all been readily available for this e getting out over the bars this last week. We can expect to see the run of summer species start to dry up, as the cooler water are already starting to push back up along the coast. The weather is looking best for a Saturday session this weekend, with strong winds returning for Sunday.
We are well stocked for bait again, block pilchards are again back in stock, and we have a good supply of frozen beach worms for those who have trouble catching them. Mullet, we are still waiting on, hopefully next week.
We have another 2 pallets of Kings product arriving next week, so will be restocked after a busy Easter period.
We will be closed this Anzac Day, so get in Monday if you are planning to fish Tuesday.
Stay safe everyone and remember, “ everyday’s a good day for fishing…”
Team Tackle World Moruya.
