Tackle World Moruya Fishing report

Moruya River. How good is this time of the year, the weather is usually very stable, with warms days and cooler nights, warm water pushing down the coast and fish a plenty. After yesterdays rather warm day, we have a cooler day forecast today before a cracker of a weekend forecast. The river is fishing very well at the moment, with bream, flathead, whiting, tailor and estuary perch all being found in the river at the moment. One lucky angler also found the odd mulloway in the river also. Whilst only in the 50-60cm size range, it’s was a welcome first capture on soft plastics while looking for flathead. The whiting seem to have taken a liking to nippers again, and have been found over the 45cm size. At this size the fight hard, and are a great size to eat. Areas where you are collecting your nippers are the areas to concentrate on. Don’t leave all that free burley you have created in the process of pumping the nippers, as the whiting, bream and flathead will all come over on a rising tide to look for scraps. Preddy’s wharf and the hole in wall area continue to produce good fish, with quite a few good sized tailor being taken this week, with bream flathead and whiting in behind the hole in the wall. The town bridge flats are holding some nice fish, with bream flathead and estuary perch all coming unstuck on live nippers and soft plastics. The areas around the hospital have some very nice fish holding structure, and as such have been holding a few good bream, flathead, whiting and the odd estuary perch. For the sweet water crew, the upper sections of the river are still producing some really good bass, with early evening and night sessions producing the best fish all on surface lures.

Tuross river. Last weekend Bream & Flathead competition was a great success, with over 200 anglers entered and some were in the vicinity of 70+ boats enjoying the areas premier fishing spot. I don’t have the details of the numbers of fish caught or the sizes of the winning fish, but from all reports a great weekend was had. . Worryingly, I did talk to one unlucky kayak angler this week, who had his kayak tipped and swamped by a boat that wasn’t paying attention to his surrounds. This resulted in the contents of his kayak, rods, tackle, keys and the days catch all being lost. He was helped back to safety by another boater that was aware of what was going on around him. So boaters, please be aware that kayaks do use this system, and have as much right to be there and be safe as you do. Luckily this angler was unscathed, but it should not have happened. With that out of the way, the flathead are all through the system at the moment, from the lower reaches all the way up to the Bumbo lake area. The bream are readily available in and around this systems myriad of oyster leases and the whiting are active on the flats. All fish have been taking a mix of baits both dead and alive as well as artificial lures. So stay safe and enjoy this premier south coast fishery.

Rock and beach. Salmon, tailor, bream and whiting have all been taken along the beaches this week, with bonito also being taken off of the rocky headlands in the mornings. I tried for a land based session last Saturday, but the swell height and direction had me pulling the pin before even getting a cast in. 2 green, unbroken waves pushing over the ledge I wanted to fish, were enough of a reason to try something else for the day. Always assess the conditions, and don’t die for a fish.

Offshore. The offshore crews have been finding all sorts of species this week. With warm currents pushing all the way down into Victoria, there are lots of fish to be found. The snapper have been mixing it up a bit this week, with fish coming out of 15m of water all the way out to 50m as well. There have been good numbers of sand and tiger flathead also in close around the 10-15m mark. Sharks have been plentiful for those wanting a feed of flake, and Marlin have been reported in and around the schools of slimey mackerel in as little as 20m of water. The yellowfin tuna have also been on the radar of the game crews this week. Honestly the fishing doesn’t get any better for us down here on the south coast than it is this time of the year, so get out and enjoy the fishing the weather and the conditions while they last.

We would like to thank everyone that dropped in a resume to us over the last few months. You will see a new face in the store over the weekends, with David learning the ropes in store. We have another load of Kings Adventure gear due to arrive next week, in time for the Easter Holidays, and more fishing tackle is being resupplied also. There are still supply issues with bait, worms and mullet are still unavailable, and block pilchards were unavailable last week. Fingers crossed this changes next week.

Don’t forget we are running 25% off all Atomic Arrowz rods this month, so come in and check out what I have in store.

Stay safe everyone and remember, “Every days a good day for fishing…” Team Tackle World Moruya.