Fishing Report
March 07, 2007
Section: Sport
WITH the swell that hit over the weekend not to many boats made it out but those that went out chasing reds were rewarded.
Snapper to 3kg were seen being cleaned down at Shellharbour by one very cagey angler that knows the key to good catches is a well placed and regulated burley trail, especially when fishing in 150 plus feet of water.
The word has definitely got out about the dredging and the great fishing it's producing at Warilla Beach with anglers scoring good whiting and bream as well as flathead off the beach the best time to fish this week was on the bigger incoming tide in the afternoon with fish moving in to scour over the burley that was deposited from the dredge.
With the dredging that is occurring in Lake Illawarra, the fishing around the lagoon area is improving day by day in leaps and bounds, with all the stirring up of the bottom from the dredge fish are moving into the entrance channel from the lake proper.
Steve Burke while fly fishing there landed his biggest tailor on fly it measured a whopping 62cm and weighed 2.5kg.Other anglers were having success on flathead to with fish in the 40 to 50cm range being caught.