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Jumping for joy over big jew
* from P40
fishing along our lo- cal beaches, which has been experienced on the rare days when the swell abated.
caught quality fish to around 1.3kg on both black and green weed.
river using yabbies and beachworms, however I am not expecting too much action until the weather really starts to warm up.
Fish to 3kg were quite common, if you were free to fish the nights the sea was good.
This is one spot that normally yields a feed of luderick any time of the year, however the fishing experienced in the past month was be- yond anyone’s expecta- tions.
I normally don’t rate September as a great fishing month – be- cause as per March, it’s a change of season month – but I suppose if you’re lucky enough to have the stars align, you might get the chance to enjoy a taste of both winter and summer fishing in the same month.
This month normally sees large shoals of both white and frog- mouth pilchards mov- ing along our beaches and headlands, and in turn good catches of jewfish, tailor and tur- rum are usually taken in due course.
Bream can be tak- en around Iluka and Yamba all year though the larger fish tend to move back out along the breakwalls and headlands, so floating a lightly weighted white pilly or small king prawn around the rocks will see you hook up to not only big bream but school jew and tar- whine as well.
Having said that, the fact still remains... if you don’t have a line in the water chasing your target species, you won’t catch a fish.
The Old Ferry ap- proach at Iluka was on fire for luderick throughout August, with local anglers To- ny Arnold, Spud Mur- phy and Wayne Frank- lin being three of the many anglers who
Towards to end of the month, I’ll do a few early season sorties for whiting inside the
So, get out there and enjoy the best sport known to humans.
Local angler Travis Porter continued to catch ne jew sh offshore on live bait but refused to give up the honey hole location.
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