MOORE RIVER

Herring, Mullet, Whiting

Baby Black Bream

 Moore River

Packed up the car with fishing gear, mozzy repellent and headed out to Moore River for a few days of quality fishing. Moore river is a wicked little spot to go to if you want to get away for a few days. The river is packed with many things to do you can hire a canoe, kayak, picnic or go on a river cruise down the river. There are many walk trails to choose from surrounding the river where you can simply enjoy the natural environment and all it's hidden wonders. The views are truly captivating at Moore river and will definitely lure you in. It's a quiet, peaceful little place to go to where you can fish for black bream, Mulloway or head out for some beach fishing and the best part about this location is that it's only an hours drive from the city. I got there nice and early and set up my camping chair in a nice secluded spot along the river for a bit of fishing caught lots of baby black bream the first day but not any big 25cm plus ones that I was hoping for lol... so it was a catch and release day, the bait I used to catch the black bream was prawns and I must say the baby breams loved the bait :). The peak period for catching black bream is usually in summer time and I would recommend sticking to light spin rods and reels if you do decide to head out for a fish there. The following day I went to the mouth of the river where it joins the ocean and did some beach fishing and boy the herring and whiting were running wild at the crack of dawn. I managed to land a couple of beauties. This little fishing spot is definitely on the favourites list :)

Mouth of the river joins the ocean

   

WOODMAN POINT

Woodman Point

Juvenile Snapper (Pinky)



 

Mini blowfish, Pinky

 
 
 

                                                                                     

 

 

 At the beach life is different.

Time doesn't move hour to hour, but mood to moment.

We live by the currents, plan by the tides and follow the  

   sun.   

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Woodman point is a popular fishing spot for catching a wide range of bread and butter fish. Personally I like the more remote places but it had been a while since I had fished there, so I thought I'd get out there and check out the fishing scene. Fish mainly caught there are usually herring, Gardies, snapper, tailor and plenty of blowies....lol

Winds were pretty strong when I got out there at 3.30pm for a fish and I must say, I got off to a rough start. Lots of little nibbles and the pesty blow fish kept eating my bait. Wasn't till 4.30 that I felt a decent bite on the line. First catch came in as a trumpeter. Which I filleted on the spot and cut up into square pieces. The fresher the bait, the better the catch and being determined like I am hail, rain or shine, I simply had to catch something. They say persistence pays off and it did, although my fish was, well.... undersized and not the big, gigantic, hudge snapper I was preying for. I still managed to land a juvenille snapper and get a happy snap of this beautiful creature. Put pinky back in the water after it's modeling shoot so it can grow to become a decent plate sized fish...:) 

When Northwest winds blowing, woodman point can be an amazing spot as the fish will come in for protection as there are plenty of rocky, hidy holes for them to choose from. I always aim to get out 2 hours before a tide change as thats when the fish will feed. The hook size I used to catch my juvenille snapper was two size 3.0 suicide hooks dropper paternoster reef rig set up. Snapper tend to go for just about anything ranging from fresh bait, plichards, squid, prawns, mussels and worms. Although some people prefer to use lures like Bucktail or soft plastic tipped jigs. I seem to prefer the use of real bait. These fish are opportunistic feeders and they tend to travel in schools of similar sizes, the bigger ones tend to become increasingly solitary. This is an excellent eating fish and would have to be one of my favourites. Tally at the end of the day was not that spectacular given the conditions, 1 trumpet, 3 juvenille snappers and a whole lotta blowies. I ended my fishing trip at 6.30 as woodman point can be a bit of an unsafe place at night time and the areas renown for breakins so don't leave any valuables in the car if you do decide to go fishing there.