My usual platitudes for not posting any updates in 11 days ! shame on me, so whats been going on since then. Wellllllll it has been somewhat mixed. Autumn weather and night temps have arrived meaning random blows impacting water quality , temps, and days the walls have been open. Overall mark has tried to keep things open so sometimes things get closed at last notice so the most recent info is not already posted to the website or Facebook, it is the nature of the weather at the moment.
After the squid comp the Saturday fished quite well especially for squid although the signs are there that the squid catch rate is defo slowing down inshore, likewise the bass size quality seems to be reverting to schoolies although there have been locally some over 5lb it does seem that “just in size” is being muttered a fair bit. A few plaice were had but not aware of any bream, in fact this last week does seem that bream as well have tailed off and the switch from summer species to winter whiting is upon us.
Sunday saw the east wall closed as was the Sat/sun night on west and any hoped for opening Mon Tues also fell foul of the weather gods.
That brought us to the wed that saw the EAST open and west closed, conditions needless to say were not great and the water change to Autumn colours was obvious and was more of an eel day than anything. V few fishing but there was a decent bass posted up on marina group but was defo tough going for those that gave it a go.
Thurs to the Sun both were open but customer numbers were very low other than at night on the west where there were still loads going for squid with a reasonable level of success. Bream numbers had dropped to near nothing , a few scattered flatties, conger, schoolies,a couple of scad & the occasional whiting and squid mostly night caught although one or 2 were landed by those trying during daylight.
On too this week and Monday saw reports of squid from the night session and similar Tues night, a few morning mackerel and Gar fish had been reported in the 1st half of the week & squid on the west at night but numbers caught clearly dropping away. Ive no idea if there are horse mac about as it seems no one has been trying for them this week and the night fishing had been dominated by squid fishing. Bass were ticking over but again sizes were smaller than previous month. As I type this blog a nice Bass have been posted of 6.8lb caught by Lee Demario on the east wall. Piccy below.
Things have slowed down on the walls. Part from lack of reports but those reports have slowed up simply because few are posting catches and fewer are fishing the walls to post reports. Social media can be a great thing but can also be a curse. Anglers seem to be chasing catch reports and assume nothing is going on somewhere because there are few to no reports. It seems gone are the days when ppl just went fook it , im off fishing and instead decide a place is not worth going to simply as they have not seen catch reports.
I may get the wheels out and take a mooch down the marina, sun is out and looks quite mild out there, but, may is the dominant word having been out fishing yesterday evening. Something quite rare for me these day. Not only fishing pre sunset but I actually fished into the night on the west until 10.30ish with Colin. Only caught a a tiny pout but did enjoy being out and actually having the energy to fish at that time of day (quite rare)
Things were v slow last night, despite a large moon, huge tide of about 7.3+ at midnight and loads of rods on the lower bays of the west all targeting squid. It was quite odd to see for me as Im so used to daytime seeing everyone charging up the walls to get the higher “deeper water” bays and yet last night the “ignored low bays” during the day were packed with people squidding. Robins legacy of boosting squid fishing on the marina is now a firmly established thing
