Happy Micks Fishing Report

Brian with a 64cm Trout

by Brian Lund

Well what can I say this weather has us all confused rain at the end of May what’s it all coming to. The recent balmy weather has done wonders for the fishing with numerous reports of Barra being taken in the big rivers on lures and live baits. One customer (Eric) came in this morning after fishing the Daly River over the weekend and reported that they cleaned up on Barra to 97cm from various spots throughout the river. The bigger ones came from an area upstream from the Wooliana boat ramp. Eric said that the Cherabin numbers were down on their last visit last year but the Barra were better. The bigger Barra were taken on Reidy’s Golbourn Jacks and Reidy’s Tiapans in the 008 and M2 colours.

Another customer came in this morning looking for another River2Sea Bully Wa 65 frog as he explained that over the weekend during a water skiing trip to Manton Dam that they decided to flick a few lure on dusk near the boat ramp and managed to get a couple of nice impoundment Barra and hooked an absolute horse that managed to straighten the Gamakatsu hooks while trying to get into the timber. He explained that his brother has been doing a fair bit of fishing there and has reported that the “fish on the sounder are massive and that there is no chance that they will fit in the 105 litre esky”. The Barra in Manton Dam are stocked impoundment Barra and similar to their cousins in QLD are possibly more suited to the catch and release fishing techniques.

Reports from Shady Camp from the weekend are patchy butthere is still some good reports of solid Barra being taken at the mouths of both Tommy Cut and Sampan. The Barra taken at the barage have been solid fish with catches in the 70s and 80s being reported. The freshwater side of Shady has been fishing well near the first rock bar.

Reports from Corroboree are still hit and miss with few Barra being reported. The Tarpon and Saratoga numbers are still up there, the water level is dropping and in a few weeks I would dare say the billabongs are going to fire up and the catches willbe great. The amount of smaller Barra being caught at the moment are an indication as to how healthy the billabongs are.

I was speaking to a couple of blokes who fished the South Aligator last week and the reports from them indicated that the trip was worth the fuel bill with some solid Goldies being taken from outside the mouth and some good Barra being taken flicking lures around structure with their biggest a 98cm barra being caught and released at the Rookery.

Brad with a Mack Tuna from Dundee

On the bluewater scene the reports are of Sailfish, Tuna and Mackeral being taken everywhere. A mate of mine Brad went for a fish off Dundee last Thursday and ended up with some great reef fish including a 10lb Coral Trout, some great Tricky Snapper to 50cm, heaps of good Stripies and some really solid Longtail Tuna bein taken. I took Brad and another mate Nick off Dundee on Friday and can not boast the same success story in terms of reefies but we did manage to get some great Longtail Tuna and smaller Mack Tuna. While we were out there the number of Sailfish spotted was nothing short of unbelievable even though we had no intention of targeting Sails on the trip.

The Tuna schools in the harbour have been in good numbers although they are flighty and easilly spooked. Reports of Tuna as far in as Channel Island are coming in from most anglers that have been fishing the harbour. A friend Eugene came in this morning and reported that he got a number of good Threadies from West Arm over the weekend and sighted a number of good Barra but could not encourage the Barra to take a hook.

With the coming spring tides this weekend the crabbing should be great and the lunchtime low tides will mean that, weather permitting, the low tide holes in Shoal Bay could be a pick of the spots for a good Barra  and a feed of Muddies. Alternatively with the full moon on Friday a night fish at Manton Dam should result in some serious impoundment action.

What ever you target or where ever you go good luck and tight lines.

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