Game fish were back on the boil off Merimbula last week with one boat reporting 15 striped marlin over the day. Tag and release is the name of the game. Baitfish balls are the secret and when found everything goes into top gear. As well, deep droppers at the shelf are getting good returns of hapuka, blue eye, ling and ocean perch.
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Good salmon and tailor are shoaling off the beaches and salmon up to 4kg are reported from near Bournda Island. Try also Tura Beach, Middle Beach, Haycock and Aslings beaches. Off the more northern reefs including Long Point and Haycock the battle between anglers and chinamen leatherjackets continues. Try further to the south at Lennards Island, North Head and Mowarry for snapper and morwong.
Kingfish have made a welcome return to Mowarry as well as off Tura Headland and Long Point. Ocean Flathead remain on the chew at Tura Headland and off the Horseshoe Reef, try 25 fathoms for the big ones! Try also off Bournda, Turingal Head, White Rock and NE off Baronda Head at 13-15 fathoms. Keep a watch for the chinamen!
New lights at the Merimbula Fishing Platform wharf are a great calamari attractor and good calamari squid continue to be landed. Luderick are still around and respond to artificial lures.
Large tailor are on the chew providing anglers excellent sport in Merimbula Top Lake, all you need is a silver spinner. There are also lots of very large blue swimmer crabs. Make sure you use legal traps as nets are banned in the lake. Trevally are thick at Merimbula both the top lake and downstream past the bridge, try soft plastics. There are also lots of very large blue swimmer crabs. Make sure you use legal traps as nets are banned in the lake.
The estuaries continue to fish well with tailor, mullet, trevally, lovely blue lipped bream and lots of breeding snapper all on the chew. Try Pambula Broadwater for dusky flathead. As the moon wanes we anticipate some reasonable prawn runs.
The club’s next event is the Tri Club “Grudge Match” (Merimbula, Pambula and Eden clubs) scheduled for 4-6 May and hosted by Pambula. It is time to gear up for the Merimbula Snapper Classic to be held later on May 26-27. The club is open every Friday evening commencing 6.30 pm. Visitors are very welcome. Come and enjoy the fishing report, the ambience, friendship and lovely views with very competitive bar prices. Darragh Reynolds is your scheduled host. All enquires to John McKay on 0427 639 585. Membership Application, Membership Renewal and everything you need to know about local fishing is on the Club’s Website: www.mbglac.com.au.
