Weekend fishing report for Ballina and district
NSW Fishing Monthly editor Tony Zann reports on the local fishing …
Bruce at Dave’s Bait Shop says there have still been some good hauls of whiting, from the lower river right up to Woodburn. The further upstream you get, the less the fish want worms and the more partial they are to yabbies and prawns.
There’s still the odd decent flattie in the lower river and the bream and blackfish have started. Bream are a little small so far and blackfish weed is hard to come by but catches and size of both species will improve over coming weeks.
A school of mullet ran to sea earlier in the week and we should see the run continue when the next westerly change
arrives.
On the beaches tailor have been quite good but they’re a little patchy at times. The top of Seven Mile Beach has been as good as anywhere, as have most of the headlands. Better quality bream have been taken on the beaches and off the rocks, too.
Offshore, the wider grounds have snapper and pearl perch and very little current, so there should be plenty of action out there this weekend. The mackerel remain very patchy at best.
