Reports have been slower with the colder windy weather but for those that are getting out there, there are some excellent fishing reports. Squid, Whiting, Flathead and Salmon are standard winter fish for this time of the year and there’s been excellent reports for all these fish. There’s some decent weather right up until Sunday for Salmon fishers and if you can get there give it a go.

Here’s what has been biting.

Elliston

Salmon fishing should be getting better with the lighter and northerly winds and all beaches should be worth having a go. Sheringa and Locks Well are the early go to beaches and Salmon have been caught from these beaches in the last few weeks when they are fishable, lures and pilchard baits are the go.

Flathead are also well worth chasing from some of the shallower beaches in the area and Talia beach also produces some big fish for Salmon fishers at times. Venus Bay has Whiting for boat fishers in the bays and the jetty also has some big Squid and Tommies.

Coffin Bay

Whiting reports are still quite good and land based fishers have been catching their fair share from many areas within the bays. Boat fishers also don’t have to travel too far to catch a feed of Whiting, the Vexed Micro Meat jigs have been helping plenty fishers catch their bag limits.

There’s also Squid in the bays, Salmon Trout, Tommies and Flathead. Farm Beach is fishing well for all of the above with most areas going well, the sandhills and the fence line do have the better reports for Whiting, there is also some good patches of Squid out there.

In the deeper areas you can also catch Gummy and School Sharks and setting up a good burley trail will get them sniffing around. Flathead are still a very good target at the moment within the national park and also the shore line from Farm Beach to Coles Point, this is where the big girls are found and using soft plastics like the Panic Stations Mullet, Berkly Glide Baits, Squidgy Prawns and the Chase Bait Prawns.

For Salmon all the main beaches do have Salmon with Greenly and Almonta two of the beaches with the best reports, the weather looks great for Salmon fishing right up to Sunday.

Port Lincoln

Squid are the dominating catch right now and if you aren’t sick of catching them there are still plenty around, a good start are the jetties but also the boat ramps and rock areas around town are great spots for land based fishers. Boat fishers are also finding plenty along the North Shore  and the in the Proper, the new Daiwa Squid jigs have really taken off and the early reports from those using this new jig have been really good, the favourite colours so far are the orange, white, black and mango shrimp.

Whiting are also going strongly here in the bays and also around Taylors and Thistle Island. In the national park Flathead are still in quite good numbers and for Salmon fishers in the Wanna to Salmon Hole area the fish numbers are getting better and better, it is looking  like the Salmon fishing should be good this winter. Lure fishing has been excellent with the Jackson Metal Effect lures and then Arma Twist lures are going really well.

Tumby Bay

Squid seem to be ok off the jetty and out at the Group that area has taken a big hit. Many will know that there’s been a big die off of the baby Cuttlefish with thousands and thousands floating on the water and washing up on beaches and the Squid have almost disappeared from the area as well, hopefully this doesn’t have anything to do with the algal bloom from Adelaide way but it is a concern and hopefully things get back to normal soon. But there isn’t much other news.

Port Neill and Arno Bay

Only jetty news and land based news from Port Neill and its all about Squid with plenty of good ones taken of the jetty and rock areas around Port Neill. 

This weeks photos are courtesy of:

Charlie & Rosie Hodgens: Fishing in the boat with some nice fish caught including Nannygai, Mackeral & School Shark.

Lucas Wheeler: Whiting caught land based.

TW Port Lincoln