new south wales Good fishing spots on South Coast

[KhalidMSyed]

Hello All,

Starting a new thread as the previous one was specific to Durras North. I have been fishing on several spots on South Coast and wanted to gather all my fishing reports in one thread. For those of you who have not seen my fishing reports from Durras North, please view this thread first:

 

 More reports to come below. Stay tuned!

[KhalidMSyed]

Here is some info about a fishing spot I tried in Tathra. Convenient parking at #1 with easy short walk to the fishing spot at #2. Take heavy sinkers with you as the current is super strong here, anything less than size 5 star sinker will cause too much drift and your line will tangle. Video report coming below soon.

[KhalidMSyed]

As promised, here is my video report from Tathra Beach:

 

 

[KhalidMSyed]

Here is another one, Bengello Beach near Bengello Creek. More than 0.5km walk from the parking spot at #1 and spot #2 is where you fish. Video report from this spot coming below.

[KhalidMSyed]

Here is the fishing report from Bengello Beach:

 

 

[KhalidMSyed]

This happened to me recently on Wallaga Beach near Little Tilba Lake. 

After a fruitful fishing session where I caught 3x Salmons and 1x Flathead, I was just finishing off by making some scenic drone footage of the area when a wedge-tailed Eagle struck my drone. I actually did not see the attack when it happened because the drone was flying around 100m high and sunlight was very bright making it difficult to see the phone screen properly. But what I did notice was that the screen went black for a few seconds which I thought was a normal glitch. When I landed the drone I was surprised to see that the recording had already stopped which I also thought was a glitch. I did see the Eagle fly away in the distance but did not make the connection at that point.

It was after I came home and watched the footage that I understood what had happened. The impact from the Eagle was so great that the last 1 second or so of the video that was not saved to the memory card yet was lost and recording stopped.

Anyway, I am happy that my drone survived the encounter and the Eagle seemed unharmed. Video report of the fishing trip coming soon.

 

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Thanks for the great tips Khalid - you are very generous to share your knowledge about so many spots.

Have you ever tried fishing for mulloway off some of these beaches/rock walls?

Cheers Hamish

[KhalidMSyed]

My pleasure mate. No, I have never targeted Mulloway as they seem rare and difficult to catch.

[Kat]

What setup were you using?

[KhalidMSyed]

42 minutes ago, Kat said:

What setup were you using?

Nothing fancy. Just fairly ordinary Penn Defiance surf rod that came with matched reel, 50lb braid, 40lb leader and size 3/0 hooks.
For footage, I use 2x GoPro Hero8 Black and Hubsan Zino 2+ drone and that's where things get a little bit fancy 

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

3 hours ago, KhalidMSyed said:

My pleasure mate. No, I have never targeted Mulloway as they seem rare and difficult to catch.

You could try using a similar rig for mulloway as what you said above. A clump of beach worms or a strip of salmon on gang/snelled hooks and a sinker large enough to hold the ground in the surf. Mulloway supposedly are best targeted on a high tide. I'm sure there would be plenty of youtube videos about it.

Cheers Hamish

[KhalidMSyed]

2 minutes ago, AUS-BNE-FISHO said:

You could try using a similar rig for mulloway as what you said above. A clump of beach worms or a strip of salmon on gang/snelled hooks and a sinker large enough to hold the ground in the surf. Mulloway supposedly are best targeted on a high tide. I'm sure there would be plenty of youtube videos about it.

Cheers Hamish

Ok thanks. Will try.

[KhalidMSyed]

Here is another one. Wallaga Beach near Little Tilba Lake. You park at #1 and there is a short walk to #2. Video report from this spot coming soon.

 

[KhalidMSyed]

Here is the video report from Wallaga Beach near Little Tilba Lake as promised.

 

 

[KhalidMSyed]

Went to Durras North again with a friend of mine and caught something I have never caught before, a Sole fish. Did not even know what the fish was called or whether it was a fish. Googled later and found out that it has many names and one is Sole fish.

 

[ellicat]

Nice size sole. Good eating if you want to keep them.

[KhalidMSyed]

8 hours ago, ellicat said:

Nice size sole. Good eating if you want to keep them.

Thanks for letting me know.
Did not know it was good eating. Will likely keep it next time.

[KhalidMSyed]

Had the opportunity to return to Bengello Beach after a long time and had a good session (burley was required). See video report below:

 

[Andrew_P]

Onya mate! Looks like a very fishy spot you’ve got there. Well done!

[KhalidMSyed]

Thanks mate. Yeah, this is a good spot due to Bengello Creek that flows into sea here. However, you can improve results here by using burley.