FISHING REPORT – 6 April 2025
Fishing Reports thanks to MBGLAC
The fishing after the rain and big seas is still very good on all fronts.
The outside flathead fishing is fishing okay again after the stir-up by the large seas. Flathead and odd gummy sharks have been caught over the weekend in 25 to 35 metres of water, fishing off Turingal Head back to the Pinnacles Beach. Flathead to 40 centimetres and gummies to 1.2 metres were caught over the weekend.
The reefs have livened up also, with some better snapper to 45 centimetres, a few nannygai and a mixed bag of other reef species. There were also a few gummy sharks caught around the Haycock Reef on Sunday. There are still a few bonito and frigate mackeral around the reefs and headlands for those that are interested. The inshore water temperature has dropped to around 21 degrees and the current is moving to the north slowly.
The salmon fishing is a bit unknown at the moment. The schools at Bar Beach have moved on, but any beach with decent gutters and sand banks will hold salmon and maybe a mulloway, especially if there is some white water coming into a deeper gutter. Main Beach Merimbula has some good bream, whiting and odd trevally being caught on a low tide rising, using beach worms for bait.
The estuary fishing was great over the weekend in Merimbula Lake. There are large numbers of blackfish being caught using floats and cabbage or stringy weed as bait, fishing around the jetties and moorings if you have a boat. There are also bream, trevally, tailor, dusky flathead and an odd mulloway being caught up the Merimbula Top Lake. Pambula and the Bega River should also be fishing well. Bega will still be pretty dirty with debris in the water, but the bream should love that. The rescheduled Dusky Challenge is on again this coming weekend, the 12th and 13th April. Check the MBGLAC website, www.mbglac.com.au for details and get yourselves ready.
The game fishing, east of Merimbula, on the shelf, is still excellent. The marlin bite is still great on the tide changes in the early mornings, with boats tagging multiple marlin each day. The reports are that the water has dropped a little, sitting at around 22 degrees, but there are pockets of 18 with the way the currents are running at the moment. However, there is a good chance of a yellowfin out a bit deeper in that 500 to 1000 fathoms, trolling lures on the tide changes.
The MBGLAC is open this Friday night. It is open for Dusky Challenge registrations from 5.30pm and the bar will be open from 6.00pm. Come on down and enjoy a cold beverage, support our raffle sponsored by Goodalls Butchers Merimbula and the Bar Beach Kiosk. Catch up on the week’s fishing reports and chat with the locals. The club will not be open on Good Friday, so hope to see everyone there this week.
Till next week. Great fishing.
Fishy Fellow