Fishing Report 17/5/2019
Saltwater
Flathead
Still biting well in most areas.
Calamari
Going well as the rougher coastal weather settles – try a slightly heavily weighted jig and target some deep water. As Alex calls them ‘the mega squid’ are available at this time of the year.
Southern Bluefin
Tuna a little patchy this week but both school and jumbo fish being caught on smaller redbait patterns.
Snotty Trevally
Starting to appear around coastal jetties in the south east – best times dawn and dusk a fresh mussel the best bait.
Silver Trevally
Also making an appearance in the Derwent.
Sand Whiting
Turning up as the water cools – Storm Bay is a great spot for these fish as they love to feed over the sand.
Australian Salmon
Schooling and feeding well on anchovies, Nth Bruny, Channel and Derwent and Huon estuaries. Larger fish feeding behind the surf breaks along the east coast.
Estuary
Sea Run trout
Spot On team members Alex and Harry fished the Derwent estuary last weekend for bream on fly and lure and ended up catching some nice sea trout with many more seen following their lures and fly. Alex made mention of a cracker in the 4-5lb mark chasing his fly.
Sea trout Fact:
Only 20% of the population, as with most trout actually spawn in any one year, meaning 80% are still remaining to be caught – usually feeding heavily on baitfish and shrimps left over from summer – this is an ideal opportunity for anglers to chase these fish in clear water before the winter floods murk things up too much.
Bream
Bream just like the sea trout these fish are enjoying the varied diet of baitfish left over from summer and are readying themselves to spawn by staging at different locations in our river systems. These fish will wait until the salinity is perfect – usually after a rain before spawning.
Freshwater
Brown trout to 1.4 kg and the odd rainbow. Late winter and autumn can be a very successful time to stalk the shores flicking a wet fly in search of a nice trout.
Rainbow trout although thinking about spawning are a good proposition at Lake Burbury where fish to 1.5kg have been taken recently – fly fishers doing well early mornings with midge and mud eye patterns and spin and trollers using an assortment of cobras and bibbed minnows.
Please feel free to come in and have a chat with any of us re any of the above or more detail on a particular fish you would like to chase.
Cheers,
Andrew
IFS News
Please remember the Inland Fisheries Service Open this weekend at Liaweenee at Great Lake, both Saturday and Sunday 10am – 3pm.
Inland Fisheries have organised a cooking display centred around trout – check out the below link:
https://www.ifs.tas.gov.au/news/2019/may/14/delicious-dishes-trout-weekend-2019-18-19-may
Also
Watch the latest IFS Carp management video below: