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Big schools of fish are throughout the system MARLO
Jim McClymont mcclymont@net-tech.com.au
With all the wet weather we had over the winter and the good flushing of the whole estuary, the fishing is still great, with anglers reporting good catches of all species throughout the entire system. The prawns are still running and settling on the sandflats that run from the Marlo jetty all the way down to Frenchs Narrows, making it an ideal fishing spot for estuary flathead and all other species that like prawns for dinner (including humans). Big schools of salmon and large tailor are coming into the estuary on the incoming tide, with the best results coming on trolling or spinning lures.
Allan Lavell and David Shanahan finished in the top 10 at the Marlo Round of the Bream Classic.
Luderick are schooling along the rock groynes that surround the islands and mud banks along the rivers. Estuary perch are schooling on snags and other structures in both the Snowy and Brodribb rivers. There are big schools of bream in the system, and they can be found from the entrance all the way up the Snowy River to the town bridge at Orbost, and up the Brodribb River all the way up to Lake Curlip. Recently we had a bream competition at Marlo, and local anglers Allan Lavell and David Shanahan competed as a team in the Marlo round of the Bream Classic. On Day One, they weighed in a nice bag of five bream of 4.11kg, putting them in 21st place overnight. On Day Two they got a better bag of 5.09kg and moved up the leader board
15 places. They ended up finishing in 6th place, with a total of 9.2kg, which is a great result. The surf beaches are still fishing at a premium, with plenty of salmon, tailor, gummy shark and big other shark species being caught. Some anglers have been using big game fishing gear, and either paddling out baits or using drones to take their baits out past the breakers in search of large predators. Anglers fishing offshore from Cape Conran and others using the entrance at Marlo have been getting plenty of action, with catches of flathead, gurnard, squid, barracoota, morwong, salmon, pinkie snapper and gummy shark. Other anglers have been targeting kingfish, tuna and, further out, marlin and swordfish.
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