Port Lincoln Fishing Report – Wednesday 16th April 2024
The weather so far for the school holidays has been excellent, mild days with light winds, you can’t ask for much more. Fishing reports are also very good there’s not too many bad ones, land based, boat, inshore or offshore there’s some good fishing for anyone right now.
Here’s what has been biting in the last week.
Elliston
We have only heard of Salmon from the beaches in the area, Sheringa and Locks Well have been the two beaches with the best reports but the other beaches should also have Salmon. Flathead are one fish that has been really starting to fire up right now and the around Walkers Rocks and other shallower beaches in the area are well worth hitting right now for Flathead.
Venus Bay and Streaky Bay’s beaches are also home to some good sized Flathead for land based fishers. Boat fishers are finding a mixture of Whiting, Garfish, Tommies, Snook and Squid from Elliston in close, Venus Bay and also Streaky Bay.
Coffin Bay
It’s Flathead time now within Coffin Bay and there are some big ones getting caught. From many areas around Coffin Bay but mostly in the National Park there is some good fishing for Flathead, soft plastics are by far the most popular way of targeting Flathead with Jackson Bone Baits, Daiwa Bait Junkies and Shimano Squidgies in the Prawn styles are the most effective and another very good new lure is the Berkley Nessie Swim Baits. These imitate a medium sized baitfish like a Tommie or Mullet and will be deadly on Flathead.
Whiting can be caught around the Ledge, Seal Corner and within Dutton Bay, mixed size fish can be expected and can include Tommies, Salmon Trout, Garfish and Snook can also be caught.
Gummy Sharks are good late in the day and into the night they shouldn’t be too hard to find. Farm Beach still has average water quality but there are lots of fish here. Whiting fishers are mostly fishing closer into the shore where you can see the sand patches or fishing the deeper water grounds where you don’t have to see the bottom. The Whiting reports have been pretty good. Gummy and School Sharks have been in the deeper water grounds and also off of Coles Point.
Offshore fishers can find plenty Nannygai and a few Blue Morwong from reefy bottom in the Point Sir Isaacs to Point Whidbey area and further out there’s Kingfish and Samsons around the islands. Tuna have been slower this week with only a few reports, that doesn’t mean that they are not out there.
Gunyah Beach again this week was the beach for Salmon with schools in the area and many gutters all holding Salmon but there have not been too many reports of Salmon from other beaches.
Port Lincoln
The main wharf is still the go to place for easy fishing action with plenty of Salmon Trout and some Tommies down there to be caught. Squid have been caught off the town jetty early morning and late in the day and some of these Squid have been big ones. The Kirton Point jetty has squid also. Rock Fishers can catch some good-sized Whiting off of the rocks at Murrays Point and at Tulka. Flathead are starting to fire up now along the North Shore and in the National Park, no monsters just yet but they should be out there you just need to put in the time and cover lots of ground with lures.
Boat fishers within the bays are starting to get better Whiting catches with not as many small fish, the North Shore and the Proper are the best areas right now. There’s still plenty of Garfish around in the bays too and they aren’t that hard to find and there is also some decent Squid reports, better than what we have had recently, and they should get better. The size of squid has been generally quite good.
Further down the coast Whiting are steady down the Passage at Taylors and Thistle Island. Mostly all good-sized fish and there and there’s also some good-sized Squid. Offshore fishing reports have mostly consisted of Nannygai and Blue Morwong on the reefs out from Williams Island to the Neptune’s and there are some rippers out there and they love the Vexed Bottom Meat jigs.
Tumby Bay
There is some really good reports from here both inshore and also out at the Group. Starting on the inshore grounds the best reports have come from Bolingbroke to Second Creek. Whiting, Garfish, Snook and Squid have been the most reported catch in this area and you should have no problems catching a feed here. The Group as well is an easy area to fish with big Whiting, Snook, Trevally, Garfish and Squid all out there from many different areas.
Shore based fishers are finding some big Garfish off of the rocks south of Tumby and Flathead are now a good target from the beaches south of Tumby.
Port Neill and Arno Bay
Not too much news this week from this area, for the boat fishers it’s mostly been Whiting and Squid which are reliable from both areas. The jetties are consistent for Squid, Tommies, Garfish and Snook. The beaches will have some big Flathead and the beaches here don’t get fished that hard for Flathead so there should some great fishing for anyone wanting to put in the time.
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TW Port Lincoln Team
