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Mallacoota - East Gippsland
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| 23 October 2006, Dave |
| Location: |
Mallacoota |
Time: |
6pm-11pm |
| Type of Water: |
Estuary |
Type of Fishing: |
Shore |
| Target Fish: |
Anything |
| Bait\Lure\Fly: |
Pilchards, poppers, small salmon |
| Fish Caught: |
1 x flathead @ 75cm
1 x octopus @ ? |
| Comments: |
Flathead took a fair while to bring in, wasn't planing on getting close enough to the octopus to measure it. |
| 2 October 2006, Hunter |
| Location: |
Mallacoota |
Time: |
6pm-11pm |
| Type of Water: |
Ocean |
Type of Fishing: |
Surf |
| Target Fish: |
Gummy shark, salmon, anything |
| Bait\Lure\Fly: |
Pilchards, poppers, small salmon |
| Fish Caught: |
1 x gummy shark @ 1m
2 x gummy shark @ 40cm-50cm
1 x stingray @ huge
5 x salmon @ 30cm-50cm
20+ x mullet @ small |
| Comments: |
Kept the big gummy and salmon. Stingray was huge, took nearly 40 minutes to get in, a good night's fishing. |
| 18-28 April 2006, Jason Stalgis |
| Location: |
Mallacoota |
Time: |
8am-12pm |
| Type of Water: |
Estuary |
Type of Fishing: |
Boat |
| Target Fish: |
Bream, flathead |
| Bait\Lure\Fly: |
Bait, lures |
| Fish Caught: |
32 x flathead @ 32cm-49cm
2 x bream @ 30cm
1 x flounder @ 25cm
4 x tailor @ 21cm-23cm
50+ x pinky snapper @ 10cm-25cm |
| Comments: |
First time at Mallacoota. Weather was drizzly, overcast and cold nearly every day! Most of the flathead came from the bottom lake. There were heaps of smaller flathead off Stingray Point. The bigger ones were caught at Refuge Cove and Kingfisher Point. Pinky snapper were a bit annoying in some spots. The bream came from Kingfisher point and one from the top lake. Both were on prawns. Nearly all of the flatties were caught on either prawns or yabbies, except one on a hard bodied flouro pink deep diver. A big flatty was lost up the Wallagraugh River about 1m from the boat. The best way to go was drifting with bait in coves. At the boat ramp we saw other people with similar catches (mostly small flathead 30cm-40cm) but I did see a couple of good bream around the 2 pound mark and a lone estuary perch. The trevally were just coming on out on the beach the day we left. There were heaps being caught and they were good sized fish. (See photo in Gallery section.) |
| 6-11 March 2006, Ben Pinniger |
| Location: |
Mallacoota |
Time: |
All day |
| Type of Water: |
Estuary |
Type of Fishing: |
Surf |
| Target Fish: |
Bream, flatties, salmon |
| Bait\Lure\Fly: |
Bluebait, pipis |
| Fish Caught: |
3 x pinky snapper @ 20cm-30cm
8 x salmon @ 10cm-60cm
8 x bream @ 10cm-25cm
1 x gurnard @ 30cm
2 x leatherjacket @ 30cm
2 x sand flathead @ 25cm-35cm |
| Comments: |
First time in Mallacoota, pleasantly suprised!! The
pinkies, gurnard, bream and leatherjackets were from a boat in the bottom
lake, Goodwin Sands and the narrows. Salmon and flathead were from the surf,
from about 5pm til sunset. Excellent fun, returned all fish. :) |
| 29 October-1 November 2005, Orazio Barbagallo |
| Location: |
Mallacoota |
Time: |
Various |
| Type of Water: |
Estuary |
Type of Fishing: |
Boat |
| Target Fish: |
Flathead |
| Bait\Lure\Fly: |
Bluebait, plastics |
| Fish Caught: |
7 x flathead @ 30cm-45cm
1 x tailor @ 40cm
1 x pinky @ goldfish size!!
1 x flathead @ dropped at the boat |
| Comments: |
Caught our fish on 30/10 drifting out from tee-tree point. Plenty of flathead being caught on plastics and live poddies, we were too lazy to trap the poddies! Mate's uncle and cousin caught 8 salmon and 1 flatty between them over two days, from the surf. Some big flatties were caught in the top lake and around the narrows as well. |
| 31 October 2005 , Craig |
| Location: |
Wallagaraugh River |
Time: |
1pm |
| Type of Water: |
River |
Type of Fishing: |
Boat |
| Target Fish: |
Flathead, bream, perch, bass |
| Bait\Lure\Fly: |
Soft plastics, prawn |
| Fish Caught: |
4 x bream @ 30cm-38cm
1 x tailor @ 40cm |
| Comments: |
We also saw a bloke drop a 9-pound flatty back in the water at the boat ramp after it snapped his line as he was trying to lift it up on the bank (that's what nets are for!!). |
See previous Mallacoota reports here. |
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