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Fishing Report : Monday 7 December 2009 (The lake is still just open
but the entrance is now shallow after the strong winds)
Estuary/River
The
weather has been good for the past week. The fishing has also been good.
Bream are still being caught in reasonable numbers in the river although
the lake and channel are fishing best. In the channel, there have been
large yellow fin bream come in from the ocean. In the lake, the bream are
being caught on bait and on vibes and plastics. I caught two good bream
at the river mouth this afternoon on vibes in about 20 minutes and the bait
fishermen nearby also landed several in that time. The channel and just
inside the lake have been producing really good luderick up to 2 kg and they
have been fun on light gear. Most are caught on sandworm although some
have been caught on vibes but they are not as numerous as they were
earlier in the year. Catches of 4-10 bream per day were typical for
each fisherman. Some days the small bream are a nuisance as I can verify
when my mate from NSW and I caught 30 or so before we landed a size fish.
We did eventually find a good spot and had a good day. We must have
cut at least 50 small fish off for the day. Some others had similar
problems while another chap in the channel fishing sandworm caught some
magnificant fish and lost quite a few on light gear. He only caught one
undersized fish for the day. The Entrance was wide but appears to be very
shallow now and is probably about to close if it has not already. There
have been some tailor caught in the channel trolling lures. Fishing
vibes seems to be not producing the catches of several months ago. The
Flathead are picking up with a few recent catches. There are reports of
good silver bream being caught in the Channel on plastics. There are no
reports of Salmon in the Channel at present and we seem to have missed them
this year.
Local sandworm is
now available at the shop together with frozen local prawns.
Those who have a good day should remember the bag limit applies per
day and should not go and catch more of the same species of fish in the
afternoon if they have already reached the bag limit. Several anglers
have recently been fined for going out twice and catching more than their bag
limit. $ 1200 each I hear with action still pending. There is
enough variety of species of fish for people to target a different species once
they reach the bag limit. Remember we want our children and grand
children to enjoy the Bemm.
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Surf Fishing Report
In the past few weeks, the salmon have been on the bite at the beaches and they are taking lures, blue bait and blue surf poppers. Several local anglers have been going regularly throwing metal lures and catching a few salmon most times. Another angler has been using a popper and bait with good success. If you walk between Gunnai Beach and Pearl Pt there are some delightful gutters about halfway if you're wanting some exercise as well as throwing a few lures around. Some good Taylor have been caught with the salmon using a wire trace and white bait.
A few goo gummy shark have been caught on the beaches in the past few weeks.
Don't
forget to get the latest tide information from the link on the Bemm River Angling
Club main web site which gives a one week tide report for Eden to which
you need to add 10 minutes to get the Bemm River Beaches.
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Regulation Changes
Changes have occurred in the fishing regulations from 2 March 2009.
The main effects on Bemm River are :
Bream (all species) : Minimum Legal Size 28 cm and Bag /Possession Limit :10
Dusky Flathead : Minimum Legal Size 27 cm and Bag /Possession limit : 5 ( no more than 1 fish may equal or exceed 60 cm in length)
Estuary Perch : Minimum Legal Size : 27 cm and Bag/Possession Limit : 5 ( of which no more than 2 can be Australian Bass
Luderick Minimum Legal Size 23 cm and Bag /Possession Limit :10
Taylor : Minimum Legal Size 23 cm and Bag /Possession limit :20
Prawns : No Minimum Legal Size and Bag /Possession limit :30 litres
of whole prawns or 5 litres of meat.
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