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A haven for nature
lovers and anglers, the inlet boasts a variety of 37 species of fish
with many popular angling
species such as
King George Whiting and the prized Black Bream.
For details about the
"where's" and "how to's" and "what's biting",
you're just going to have to ask Jeff & Rob.
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King George
Whiting
Easily the largest of the
whiting family, the King George is found across the cooler southern areas of
Australia reaching from NSW to north of Perth. It has a silvery body,
which is dusky yellow above and has irregular oblique rows of small bronze or
brown spots on the back and upper sides.
The eating quality of
King George whiting is renowned throughout Australia. It is a fish with a
delicate flavour and texture. One of its prime qualities is that it
retains its flavour after being frozen.
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Black Bream
The Black Bream is found
in the estuarine and inshore coastal waters of southern Western Australia.
Dawn, dusk and night fishing for bream provide the best results. Entrances
to estuaries find bream hiding in deep holes and channels during low tide, but
can be caught on flats at high tide.
Bream are a tough fish. They
are built to handle salinity and temperature changes which would kill
oceanic fish species.
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Catching them is an interesting
exercise, they pick the bait up and will swim off a short distance with it
in their mouth and then stop, spit it out and move it around. They
will do this maybe three or four times before taking it property, strike
early and you'll lose the fish. It goes against all your fishing
instincts and it's an agonising wait, but it's probably the single biggest
reason why people miss hookups on bream.
From a bait perspective it pays to go
fishing with a few options, they like river prawns, mulies, bony herring
just to name some of the bait options for catching this wily critter.
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Flathead
Common in coastal sand and weed
areas. Best identified by the distinctive markings on the dorsal and
caudal fins, as well as the relatively long head. Usually sandy in
colour. The dorsal spines are venomous.
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Cobbler
Abundant in estuaries but also
commonly found in coastal reef and weed areas. Colour varies from
blackish-grey to a mottled pattern of pale and dark blotches.
Generally seen at dusk or night. Unwary fishers sometimes step on them
in shallow waters and receive a painful sting from the barbed spines around
the head.
This is a popular recreational
fishing species, they are not to everyone's taste but are generally sought
after for their soft and delicate flesh.
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For More information and other
fishing tips
the following web sides may be of interest:
Department of Fisheries - WA
Fishing Western Australia
Fishnet WA |