June and July brought some tough weather, with this winter one of the worst for wet and windy conditions for some time. We did see a couple of the nice winter glassout days but they were rare.  Luckily the fishing on those days was excellent and we saw a fantastic start to our shallow water snapper season, with some big knobby's landed.




Snapper were caught with a range of techniques but we saw that soft plastics fished around bait schools worked the best.  Keeping your approach calm and quiet is the key to getting a good session, as snappers often move on with too much commotion in the areas we fish.  Guests were treated to some new PB’s and had a ball on light tackle.


 
With covid cancellations we have some vacancies left for the snapper season when it reopens from August 16. Get in quick to secure your dates.



Other species we targeted through June and July were our winter reef species. Coral trout, cod, sweetlip, hussar, Moses perch and more were caught when we could got the right conditions to target them. We are hopeful we will get a few more opportunities through winter to hit the reefs.


Big longtails were also good fun with fish to 20kg landed. Guests love the battle of these brutes with some epic battles had by guests. Mac tuna also added to the tuna count with their blistering runs leaving us wonder if they grew as big as longtails would they fight harder?


 
Inshore we targeted species like school, broad bar mackerel, cods and smaller snapper with many days too windy to head further offshore.



Trevallies were around as usual with some big goldens falling to jigs and soft plastics. Queenfish also have been about deeper in the water column and often will come up to hit a top water lure.  We should see plenty of sportfishing action on the trevally in the months ahead.



Looking forward we should see some stable weather with more of a dry westerly flow in the wind through August. This will bring some stability to the fishing and will be a welcome change to the wet June and July we just experienced. We have plenty of vacancies now with NSW border closures so please get in touch and book a day with our experienced team of guides. We cant wait to see you onboard!


Marlin Season 2021



It’s only 8 weeks away until we will be actively looking for our inshore black marlins. We still have vacancies available with our guides chomping at the bit to get the lures out and start searching!


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