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Bream and flathead from the Bemm channel out Robyn’s website: www. bemmaccommodation.com. au or ‘like’ us on Facebook – Bemm River Holiday
BEMM RIVER
Robyn Sturgess
Autumn is always a great time to visit Bemm River, with crisp calm mornings, followed by warm days and cool nights. Anglers have reported that the channel, opposite the Blowhole, is currently a hot spot for quality bream and flathead. The preferred bait is frozen prawn. Josh Nixon and crew recently had a successful fishing trip using soft plastics for quality bream and flathead. As the entrance is closed there are lots of prawns about, providing ideal bait for the next day’s fishing. Quality bream between 32-42cm have been getting caught in the deeper water around the Mahogonies. Good-size flathead are also in abundance, and are being caught on hardbody lures and soft plastics. Josh’s hot spot was located between the entrance of Mud Lake and the entrance to the river.
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Flathead are plentiful at the moment. The river has been rather quiet, producing fish but not in big sizes. Anglers fishing the surf
have been catching some salmon and tailor. At the time of writing, the entrance is closed, prawns are everywhere and the water level is rising. As we are now well into autumn, and winter is approaching, the hot spots for the winter bream season will be Bobs Bay, Mahoganies and Mud Lake.
As always, please ensure your safety gear is in order for your boat, and your fishing licence and boat licence is current. Fisheries officers visit often and check these details in order to maintain safety on our waterways. • For on the spot and up to date fishing reports check
Bream are suckers for a prawn bait.
Hot fishing in local estuaries MARLO
Jim McClymont mcclymont@net-tech.com.au
Trevally often show up as a bycatch.
Round 1 of the Hobie Fishing Series, sponsored by Daiwa, has been run and won. Congratulations to Tony Pettie for taking out the round, with a total of five bream weighing 5.19kg. Thanks should also go to all anglers who attended the event. We had several competitors in-store after their pre-fish, stocking up on lures to suit the local area and conditions. Most anglers did very well, getting their share of bream. By all reports, the fishing in our estuary is on
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There are plenty of big sharks being caught off the beach. fire. Anglers targeting bream have been bagging out, and the fishos chasing luderick have been getting plenty also. Live prawn baits have been the go, also picking up estuary perch that are
schooling on the snags and structures in both the Snowy and Brodribb rivers. Large estuary flathead are in big numbers along the sandflats that run from the Marlo jetty all the way
down to Frenchs Narrows. The same area is where the prawns gather in great numbers, awaiting the right moon and tide to make their run to the ocean. Plenty of
