The Bemm River Fishing Report
Join up to The Bemm River Angling Club by
going to http://www.brac.asn.au and selecting Club Events and download the form.
Fishing Report : Wednesday,
7 July 2010
(The Channel has been opened to the sea)
Estuary/River
The town
continues to be relatively quiet. The
Inlet remains open with the water quite low.
The bream fishing continues to be variable. The bait fishermen have found it tough in the
last week. One local did not lose a bait
in 3 hours even though he and his visitor caught a few good fish earlier in the
week including two good luderick. Another
bait fisherman from near the Snowy also did not lose a bait despite fronting
the cold at day break and staying out until about 10 am. Fishing lures and plastics has been more
successful in the last week. If you go
to www.youtube.com and search for
MrBemmRiver you will find some footage of one of our members landing a bream on
a plastic. If you are not a member and
regularly read this report, why not join.
Go to the Club Events page and download an application and pay the
$15.00 and then be eligible for our annual heaviest fish awards. Catches
of 0-10 bream per day are typical for each fisherman at present. The
luderick are quiet even though local sandworm is available. The
small bream can be nuisance.
The tailor are still being caught in the channel with lures
although they are not as good a size as they have been with one weighed in at 1.669
kg over our Easter competition. The
smaller tailor are all over the lake and make a mess of your plastic if you
manage to land it before it takes your whole lure. Fishing vibes
seems to be as effective as using plastics. The Flathead are relatively
quiet. The Salmon have not entered the
Channel since it has been opened.
Local sandworm is available at the shop but frozen local prawn is
the preferred bait at present.
Beaches
The beach fishing is very good at present with good catched of Salmon at all the beaches from the Channel to Pearl Point. The salmon are being caught on poppers and bait. 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 huge Taylor have been caught with the salmon using a wire trace and white bait.
The
gummy shark have been quiet even on the moon.
Offshore there seem to be plenty of flathead being caught by launching from Cape Conran and a few gummy shark.
There are still some access issues with the beaches rough weather
a few months ago. They have significant drops down to the beach making them hard
to get down to - use caution. Check with locals before venturing out or
alternatively give Parks Victoria a ring in Orbost. Latest photos can be seen
on the Beaches page.
Before you decide on where to fish have a look from a high point
for gutters along the beach edges - these will more often than not contain
schools of foraging fish. All you need to do is cast into one of these gutters,
preferably on an incoming tide, and hang on!!
Remember wherever your fishing - don't leave rubbish lying around,
bring it home with you. We need to protect our environment - if we don't who
will!
Finally, only keep what you need. We need to preserve our fish
stocks so catch and release where possible. Log onto the Fishcare website for more information on
catch and release rulers and techniques.
Check with your local advisor upon arrival in town to make sure that these reports are up to date. We will attempt to update this site as often as possible. If you have any feed back please contact us and we will be happy to post your stories, adventures and photos on this site.
Changes have occurred in the fishing regulations effective 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.
A couple of
beautiful fish caught in the channel on lures. Both were returned to the water
tagged.
