Around the Bay with Jim’s Bait and Tackle
Find out what's biting and where in our weekly fishing update.
More people fishing is adding up to more fishing reports and there was plenty of quality amongst them this week.
Most of the reports are of snapper which you would expect for this year and while they haven’t settled down to any one spot and reports are all over the place we are starting to see more of them in the expected areas.
Whiting and calamari could best be described as tough. Both continue to be very inconsistent with only slight improvements, calamari probably slightly better than whiting.
The best snapper reports this week came from the areas you would expect to find them, and all came from the ends of the day.
Either before daylight or just after daylight and the quality and quantity was excellent. Those who caught fish in the best times managed their bag over 40cm easily and most had at least one that went between 5kg and 6kg.
These reports also told us the fish were aggressive and hit baits hard.
For all the other reports we received there wasn’t much of a pattern and very mixed in where and when.
The pre and post light reports came from the deeper water in the channel along French Island from tortoise head to spit point.
The daylight hours reports came from both shallow and deep and we even had one snapper we weighed that went over 6kg from 40m of water offshore.
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