Fishing report

With the patchy weather this week reports were an understandably quieter but those we received were on the quality side.

It was definitely a case of opportunity this week and heading out for a quick fish in between the changes of weather.

All the reports came from customers that looked at the weather and headed out to fish a tide change between the wind, sometimes in the rain.

We had a few reports from the land where the wind isn’t really a factor just a nuisance at times. The advantage of fishing on an island if its blowing on one side drive over to the other side.

Snapper are the main target at the moment, and they seemed to have settled into the expected spots rather than all over the bay as they were a few weeks ago.

All over the bay however are 100s of pinkies, the very small variety.

It’s as if they didn’t leave and just took a break for a while but are back with no shortage of numbers. They seem to be in the biggest numbers across the shallower areas of the corals and not so many in the deeper channels.

Maybe it’s the reason we aren’t seeing the bigger snapper over the shallow corals, with the pinkies just stealing baits, with those who have persevered still not seeing anything big.

The best of the reports is coming from Elizabeth Island and above, up to the fingers.

The snapper we had reported were all good fish at 5kg or above. We had one report of a snapper that pushed the scales over 9kg.
 

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