Tackle World Fishing Report May 7th 2021

Moruya River. With over 150mm of rain in some areas, you can probably guess what this has done to the river. With a fair bit of fresh making its way into the system, this has brought us back to what has become the norm over the last 12 months. Dirty, high water that will force the fish deep and towards the front of the system. Concentrate your efforts around the airport flats and Preddy’s wharf, switch to oilier baits for best affect. Tuna fillet, mullet fillet and pilchards. For those that want to still throw lures, look towards lures with lots of noise/vibration potential and gold flash. Burley will also help attract fish to you. This can be as simple as chook pellets with a bit of tuna oil added, we do have this available in store.

Tuross river. With a similar catchment area to Moruya river, Tuross is also suffering from an over abundant supply of fresh rain water run off. Concentrate your efforts again towards the front of the system, with baits that have a high oil content offering you the best chance of finding fish. The boat shed area, main boat ramp and the flats on the potato point side all offering the best opportunity to find fish that have been pushed towards the mouth of the system.

Rock and beach. The salmon and tailor will be the dominant species to be found this weekend for those willing to brave the less than ideal conditions. All the beaches have been holding good numbers of fish this last week. With the continuing rain, try looking at beaches that are away from the major river mouths to find cleaner water.

Offshore. There have still be reasonable numbers of snapper and flathead caught this week in around the standard 30-40m marks. Once this rain eases and the subsequent out flow slows, the snapper will more than likely be on the chew. For the game crews willing to get out to the shelf, there have been reports of Yellowfin Tuna. The sauries, a favourite pelagic food source have been found a lot further in shore than the shelf. It won’t be long before the tuna move in to find them, if the sauries don’t move out to deeper water. Find the bait, find the predators.

We finally, after 6 months of not having them, have had a delivery from NSW DPI, of plastic Lobster/Abalone and Crab measures arrive. The new crab measures have the updated size increase for the blue swimmers crab that came into affect on April 30th. So if you have been chasing one, come in this weekend and grab one.

We have also had another drop of Tackle World exclusive rods from Shimano arrive this week. The Shimano Sentire Sakana range, are a great value rod from light estuary work through to 12’ beach rods. Come in today and check them out.

Stay safe everyone and remember, “every days a good day for fishing...”

Team Tackle World Moruya.