Sport
6 April, 2022
Fishing ROD What's Biting Where
Our week away was fantastic. To get out of the region and travel further afield was a godsend and we both came home refreshed and ready to go (till our next trip).
Our week away was fantastic. To get out of the region and travel further afield was a godsend and we both came home refreshed and ready to go (till our next trip).
We flew into Coffs Harbour and spent the week at Urunga. Our B&B was on Newry Island and our back yard was the Kelang River (one of many huge rivers that flow east out of the Great Dividing Range in NSW).
Fishing from our back doorstep saw us land big yellowfin bream, dusky flathead and even mudcrab.
Yes, another torrential rainfall occurred while we were there. It basically lasted two days and on the Wednesday morning we were told to evacuate the island and go to the golf club, which is the official refuge site.
We registered, had coffee then went into Coffs Harbour to shop and have lunch before we got a call that we could return to our accommodation as the tide had turned and was running out.
That was it. The remaining time we had left was warm, humid and sunny and we wasted no time when doing things.
In fact, the day we flew home we spent the morning catching solid bream off the main jetty at Urunga.
They banned commercial fishing from the Kelang and Bellinger rivers (which meet at Urunga heads) some years ago and the fishing is phenomenal and only getting better.
Offshore over broken ground or reefy patches has seen good gummy shark to 17 kilos taken off the bottom.
Accompanying that has been good pinkie snapper to 40 centimetres and some solid nannygai. Burley helps when at anchor and squid and salmon fillets are the preferred baits.
Closer inshore has seen some good captures of sweep and the odd pinkie dropping lightly weighted baits down any bommies close to inshore reefs and cliff faces.
Soft baits tied onto the hook with hosiery elastic has done the job.
Fishing from afar: the bream in the Glenelg River have gone right off with many fish exceeding a kilo in weight taking hard baits like whole crab lightly or even unweighted with the drag backed right off to let the fish run.
From Donovans right down to the mouth has been the go. This spot is looking good for the Easter break.
