Outside the heads things have been relatively quiet, with the catches of snapper down on what I would expect at this time of year. Tea-coloured water, at a temperature of 17 degrees in places, is the reason.
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Enough excuses. There are patches where the water is warmer and this is where the fish are going crackers. Broughton Island is my favourite place on earth, where the snapper action is red hot, with excellent reports rolling in from the shallow reefs that surround the island and the deep water reefs north of the island to Seal Rocks. Toss a floating bait or a plastic and hang on!
Inside the port is on the boil, with mud crabs invading Lemon Tree, Karuah, Tilligerry and North Arm Cove. Blue swimmer crabs are tap dancing up the channels from Karuah to Corlette, while trumpeter whiting are out of control throughout the system. Flathead are gliding through the warm shallows, west of Soldiers Point.
Where have all the flounder gone? Send me a recent photograph of a flounder, stinkerfishing@yahoo.com.
