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Warm water glamour crew COFFS COAST
Rob Taylor
I’m just back from a trip to South Solitary Island (or ‘The Light’, as locals affectionately call the southernmost island in the Solitary Islands chain), and we brought back a couple of 8kg kings in the ice bag. As is usual for this time of year, yellowtail kingfish have been schooling up around the northeast corner of the Light and are falling to trolled lives, jigs and stickbaits. Fish size ranges from 3kg
The author with one of the kings he managed to stop.
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rats to 20kg+. The other big news this month has been the ongoing hot bass bite and arrival of the season’s first mangrove jacks. The Clarence has absolutely fired for big solid bass this season, but
it seems not all systems are following suit; I did a 6-hour hike along the Nymboida when it opened and only managed one cod. It will improve though as the season progresses. Offshore anglers have
Cameron Hall posted an excellent second placing in the East Coast Sport Fishing Clarence River Bass Open with fish like this.
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Robbie Sullivan (right) and his mates bagged this great feed in close off Station Creek.
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been getting mixed bag sessions, with some fishos finding solid patches of snapper, trag and pearlies and others struggling to get a feed. It’s transition time though as the cool water species start to make way for the warm water glamour crew of pelagics to arrive and take all the attention. Let’s take a look at what the next few weeks should deliver as we run into Christmas. CREEKS, RIVERS AND ESTUARIES As mentioned, bass are pretty much everywhere at the moment and the bite should only improve as the cicadas start their deafening summer shrill. While the bigger systems are sure-fire locations, don’t overlook the smaller creeks as the fish should
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