Moruya river.
Tentative signs of improvement this week. With flathead being the mainstay of this weeks captures. Most definitely the lower reaches, are the areas to concentrate on. The airport flats on the north side, and the areas around Preddy’s wharf on the south side. Soft plastics have been the best performer lure wise, with bait also producing a few good fish as well. The flats around the front of malabar creek have also been producing a few flathead, as the water is slowly starting to clear up. Just remember not to venture into malabar creek and the weir area, as this is a marine sanctuary zone.
Further upstream the flats under the bridge haven’t really shown much signs of life yet. Hopefully this will soon change.
Tuross river.
As for Tuross, a lot of the activity has been compressed towards the front of the river around the mouth and nearby flats. There have been a few reports of Luderick from around the mouth of the river where the water is cleaner. There have also been a few reports of flathead around the potato point side of the system. Apart from that, there have been very few reports of fish further upstream. As the system settles, the fishing will improve.
Rock and beach.
There have been reasonable numbers of salmon around on beaches that have cleaner water. Try the beaches up towards Broulee and down towards Congo and Bingie.
If fishing by yourself, take your time getting out to your chosen spot and don’t overload yourself. Last weekend I had my trip out to Mulliburra point cut short after I took a fall before I made the platform itself. A not so quick trip to emergency ended up with 7 stitches to my knee and a wasted afternoon. Let someone know where you are going, and take only what you need.
Offshore.
Well, hasn’t this week been great for the offshore brigade!!! With schools of Yellow Fin Tuna being found in really close, and in really shallow water for this species. The schools have been reported from Broulee all the way down to Tuross in as little as 65m of water. Fish to 50kg have been seen and caught, with schools busting up on the surface before quickly moving on. Trolled shallow running hard body lures and cast stick bait lures have been the lures of choice. This water depth is usually where the snapper and flathead guys go, so while waiting for the fin to turn up, you could always drop a bait or two and take home a feed of snapper or flathead as well.
More Xmas stock continues to arrive each week, so the shop is starting to fill up as we race towards what will hopefully be a busy xmas season for us all.
Thanks to Sam DeGraaf for showing us his YFT capture this week.
Stay safe everyone, and remember “every days a good day for fishing...”
Team Tackle World Moruya
