With the fine weather and extra people around the reports this week have been very good with quality size and plenty in the eskies.
We even managed to put the boat in the water for a run and a quick fish on Tuesday.
Following some reports we headed to the Rhyll bank on the last hour of the out-going tide to chase a whiting.
Being only half prepared and armed with some very soft old pilchards and a handful of pippies out of the home freezer it took two minutes before we had our first whiting.
Within the hour another 10, six of which were keepers, four were over 44cm, two salmon around 1.5kg, one pinkie at 38 and lost count of those undersize, four flathead, three leatherjackets and countless amount of toadies we headed home.
I decided to take out one of the Hookem scaler bags to give them a try and once I got the speed right, which took a couple of attempts, and had it tumbling in the wake it took no time at all and all scales and slime was gone.
We fished in about 5m of water off the Rhyll bank and the whiting all took pilchard fillet and the pinkies all took pippies then as soon as the tide changed, all stopped.
We had plenty of other whiting reports and most contained several over 40cm but all, regardless of length were in excellent condition.
There were plenty who came back with none and it was a case of you needed to be there at the exact right time or nothing.
Working that out was the hardest thing and almost everyone told us the right time was that hour or so before or after the tide change with virtually nothing outside of those times.
It didn’t seem to matter a lot which whiting spot you were fishing around the bay providing you were fishing those times.
As well as pippies and pilchard fillet we had a handful of reports from those using octopus heads and fresh calamari strips.
Calamari, while still elusive to some, are continuing to improve from all areas and if you are in a boat you shouldn’t have too many problems finding a couple for a day’s fishing.
Land based customers are reporting them to be a little more difficult to find and very timid, chasing jigs but not actually taking them.
You will also find they will probably disappear during the day from around the San Remo jetty while the dredge is working. Evenings or very early mornings might be a better time.
For the first time this season the reports from those using artificial jigs out fished the baited jigs with one thing common to all, the size of the calamari wasn’t anything to complain about.
Snapper reports continued to come in and are as regular as expected for this time of the year with the fish showing signs that they are not far off spawning.
The patterns are becoming far more obvious now and they seem to have settled and are schooling up.
Early morning fish head to the deeper water, channel edges.
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