Plenty of spots to try luck
Australian salmon are proving a popular catch among anglers around the state, with some great captures being reported from the East Coast and in the Tamar River.
While the majority of captures are fish on the smaller side, some thumpers have been caught in the North recently and for those hardy enough to have a go, the rewards are there.
Thinking fishers in the north have been spotting big fish in shallow water, off Kelso, by cutting boat motors and drift spinning with lures and soft plastics. Fly anglers are having great success in the salt water.
In Great Oyster Bay, a local angler had success recently with a number of Australian salmon being caught from a land-based position.
Silver trevally and yellow eyed mullet were also being caught in the area.
Off Little Swanport, bream were taken on squidgy soft plastics plus captures also included salmon and silver trevally.
At Bell Bluff in the South, one angler reports of being busted off by a large unknown fish and the same deal occurred with an angler fishing at Rosny, spooled by a large unknown fish. I suggest the mystery fish could either be big sea run trout or large Australian salmon, as a few have been reported as being captured in and around the River Derwent lately. A silver slice lure is the one lure that attracted all the attention. Whitebait are really starting to move into estuaries around the state and of course where there is whitebait there is bream — and usually big sea run trout.
At the Trevallyn tailrace a whopper was caught last week on a scallop and it went over 6kg.
The whitebait season opens next month and you do need a licence to fish for these tasty morsels. The annual licence fee is $32 and you can take 2kg of fish per day with a total weight of 10kg per licence holder for the season. It is an offence to sell whitebait and it is also an offence to have whitebait in your possession without a licence. More info on the Inland Fisheries Service website www.ifs.tas.gov.au
The Henty and Gordon rivers are fishing very well, with some cracking, sea run trout being caught. Huge fish inhabit these waters and lures fished slow and deep are best.
These fish are taken on a variety of lures which include the Spotty Dog, Canadian Wigglers and some of the great winged wonders from Wigston’s Tassie Devils.
Calamari squid are on the move around our waters but be reminded of the closures in some areas which include the East Coast, Upper South East Coast waters including Great Oyster Bay and the Mercury Passage from October 15 to November 14, inclusive each year.
Tasmania’s north coast will be closed from October 1 to 31, inclusive from Cape Grim east to Cape Naturaliste.
The striped trumpeter season is closed and reopens on November 1.
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