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Fingermark are fishing well. Phil caught this one on a vibe in the harbour.
The other fish I tried to target were coral trout, but this has been a bit harder with only a few smaller fish caught.
Gladstone Harbour is holding large schools of herring and garfish, and this would be a bet- ter area option to start your hunt for salmon.
You can soon rack up some sturdy cricket scores with quality fish coming in between the smaller versions.
Targeting fingermark in the harbour
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have been patchy, so if you can track down a school you will catch a few but schools have been hard to find.
bait in these areas you are more than likely to find fish willing to feed.
both lure and bait – but vibration style lures, with their ability to be fished in deeper water and fast-moving cur- rent, is the most pro- ductive technique I’ve found.
The Calliope River typically has schools moving through but with the lack of con- sistent herring in the river only the odd fish is being caught.
Pikey bream and the less common yellow- fin bream are hitting just about anything that movesandyoucanwatch them feeding along the rocky shorelines.
It will take a little time to crack the code on where the best and most contended spots are to find better sized and quantities of coral trout.
Fingermark are bit- ing extremely well – so if you can find bait, a depth change and struc- ture, these will usually hold fish.
Flathead numbers will be on the increase to- wards the end of Ju- ly and into August, so expect to find a lot of smaller-sized fish.
While fishing for them though I have managed to catch other species I haven’t caught in the harbour before, with grass sweetlip and parrotfish a common capture.
There are plenty of these types of location through the harbour and if you can fig- ure out a run of spots, you’ll be able to find a few fish willing to bite.
The odd large breed- ing female will be caught – remember that these fish will be work- ing towards the breed- ing season, so handle and release with care.
On the fishing front, during July blue salmon
Grunter will still be found in the region because they are wide- spread and don’t nec- essarily have a specific type of location.
Queenfish are being caught off the markers in the shipping chan- nel, the headlands and the reefs off Facing and Curtis islands.
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They will normally sit on gravel and scattered rock in water depth from a metre to deep water of 15m or more.
Hopefully, we get more good weather to take advantage of as well as slowly get back to normal life.
Again, if you can find
Cheers and happy fishing from Gladdy.
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