What fish are biting where?
Our local river, your local river, the Collie really starts to fire at this time of year with good reports all round.
The bream fishing is really starting to take off with numbers of good size fish coming from the lower reaches of the river as water clarity improves.
Lots of anglers are using soft plastics and hard body lures with 3” flick baits and 2.5” grubs proving to be the best.
A good number of mulloway are starting to be caught. These fish are taking the soft plastics meant for bream and also falling for live baits fished by the anglers in the know. Evening or morning tides are the best.
One fish that starts to make a welcome appearance in the river and estuary as the water starts to heat up is the giant herring.
Anglers will know if they get on to one of these beauties, as they are by far the fastest fish to enter the river.
All the local beaches are still rewarding fishers with good numbers, chopper tailor being number one to find the baits.
Good numbers of school mulloway are also getting caught and later in the evening the sharks are starting to run.
Squid numbers are on the rise and as always Busselton Jetty is as good a spot to try as anywhere. Using prawn style jigs first thing in the morning just out from the break wall off Bunbury can net a few squid caught around the weed.
The off shore fishing is looking really good at the moment with all the near shore reefs producing good fish. Dhuies and snapper are not hard to find and lots are falling for the light jigs that are proving so popular these days.
