Tackle World Moruya Fishing report

Moruya River. With the offshore currents a little messy at the moment the river temps have stalled a little this week. The river sits at around the 19-20deg mark, not cold, but not continuing to rise in temp. This has seen the fish activity plateau a little, whilst still biting, a few more degrees of water temp, will see their activity step up even more. From the mouth of the river all the way up past the hospital, good reports of flathead, bream and the odd estuary perch have continued to come into the shop. Both baits and lures have been working this week. For the lure fishos, hard body and soft plastics lures, worked subsurface have been the go. We haven’t seen any surface bite activity yet, as we still need a few more warm days and a slight increase in water temp. Any soft plastic in the 2.5” through to 4” sizes will mark on the flathead, whilst the bream will be looking towards the 2.5” plastics on lighter jig heads. Baits of mullet fillet, prawns and the live nippers have all been successful for those wanting to find a feed of flathead and bream. We just need a few days of sunny warm weather to have the flats fishing really start to fire, come on summer, we know you can do it!!

Clyde River. I know a few of you have been asking for reports from the bay, luckily Zane our newest staff member, had a good session on the Estuary perch last week with his dad, he also managed to set a new PB on Mulloway as he landed his first, of hopefully many silver ghosts last week. The river seems to be holding good numbers of mulloway in the 50cm mark, a good sign of a healthy fishery. It’s also good to hear of a few estuary perch being caught, as they have been a little quiet the last few summers with repeated flood events. I would imagine that the flathead and bream are also starting to bite as summer rolls towards us.

Tuross river. Flathead continue their usual dominance in the Tuross system this week, with fish being taken from the mouth all the way up past the metal bridge at Bodalla to the back of Bumbo lake this week. As well as the Flathead, Bream, Trevally and the odd estuary perch have also been found. While the flats are slowly starting to wake up,as with Moruya, we still need a few sunny warm days to really kick the surface season into action. Tuross is a great system to fish in most weather conditions, as it doesn’t matter where the wind is coming from, you will usually be able to find a sheltered section to fish. With the forecast winds this weekend, morning sessions will be the best option before the winds that we get this time of year increase around lunch time. Saturday will be the better of the two days with Sunday’s winds predicted to hit 40kph during the afternoon.

Rock and Beach. The salmon schools that are a staple along our beaches continue to keep beach and rock anglers entertained this week, with good captures reported all along the coast. Moruya breakwall has been seeing the best activity during the morning sessions. That being said, the bream, flathead and Trevally have also been there to be caught as well. The gutters in close, have started to see an increase in both bream and whiting, as the sea temps start to slowly creep up. Baits of worms, pipis and live nippers all work to temps a bream or whiting to bite.

Offshore. Good snapper have been reports as well as nice sized sand and tiger flathead, with a definite preference to early morning session before the winds pickup around lunch time. Look to the magic 30-40m mark for the snapper, and don’t forget to give the artificial reef in 40m of water a good look at. With a healthy bait fish population already, we can expect to see snapper and hopefully kingfish around this year. Nothing to report on the game fish scene this week again, sorry.

The store is starting fill up with Xmas stock constantly coming in, we are almost ready for the hoards of holiday visitors to descend upon us this year. We welcome you all today is a visit if you are planning a trip down to our little slice of gods country. We have our new range of Kings Adventure camping and four wheel driving gear now in store, a perfect Xmas present for someone who enjoys the outdoors and 4wd scene. We are well stocked with all our usual dive and snorkelling gear, so in getting wet is your thing, we have you covered. There is plenty of fishing gear to suit everyone, from the new angler to the seasoned old salt. If you are looking for Xmas presents, and are unsure what to get, don’t forget that we do gift vouchers to what ever dollar value you wish to spend.

Stay safe everyone and remember, “everyday’s a good day for fishing…” Team Tackle World Moruya.