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Changing current makes it Hhard to pick fishable days
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OPEFULLY by the time you read this, the current will have slowed down on
Tweed to Byron Bay
by GAVIN DOBSON
the wide reefs.
Typical for May it stopped and
some nights producing only chop- pers and other nights three and a half kilo greenback.
started and made it hard to pick a day, so it was up to the luck of the draw whether it was a fishable day or not. The boats that picked the good days came home with the usu- al suspects from the deep such as cod and pearl perch. A little closer on the 32-fathom line and around Windarra Banks some good teraglin were captured too.
Mullet coming down the rivers will stir the jewfish situation up on the walls, beaches and headlands. Bream usually school up at the same time as mullet but as yet there’s no sign of them.
Every summer and autumn a school of amberjack takes up residence somewhere. Often it’s at Windarra Banks, but one year it was Mackerel Boulder at Julian Rocks, other years it’s at the 45-fathom line behind Windarra and this year it is on the 42-fathom line off Cape Byron.
NSW restrictions on travel are lift- ing in June and groups of 20 peo- ple will be allowed, so hopefully businesses can start getting back to normal. The whales are starting to come through, so I’m thinking fishing charters and whale watching trips will be back on the cards.
This area is known as Seven Mile, so if you are after a smaller-sized amberjack you will still get a few there late autumn. Earlier in sum- mer jack are around three to five kilograms but later in the season they are likely to be five to eight kilos. Just babies really but good fun and the right size to eat because the larger models produce huge fillets. Expect to get kingfish in the same areas and for the really big amber- jack the 50-fathom line will be the go.
Thanks to the Bush ‘n Beach Fish- ing team for keeping the mag run- ning during lockdown – last month’s looked great.
Stay well and good fishing.
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It was nice to see an early run of tailor on our beaches, with reason- able numbers being caught through May. The sizes varied a lot, with
Blue Phillips extracted this hard-fighting kingfish from a local reef on a recent day of calm weather.
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As I said last month, the boat ramp is the busiest it’s ever been and while we can’t get away for a hol- iday, locals are making the most of the opportunities.
In close, I’ve heard jewfish are on the chew off Tweed. They must all be up there because down here on the Brunz reefs there have been a few but hardly in what you’d call de- cent numbers. Some good snapper have come in though, with plastics claiming the most victims.