[Gator]

I am hijacking this idea from Bleans Tassy Poll.

It would be great to get as many of us together as possible for social and fishing too! As with Bleans idea the poll is for the month and then if everyone would respond with a suggested place I can coolate(sp?) it all and try to organize it. Also, indicate if you would be interested in an overnighter. Maybe organize to meet up on a Friday night and spend the weekend.

There are those of us for whom a weekend is not an issue; however, you that have to work thru the week, I would expect, would prefer a weekend.

Looking forward to your replies.

Duncan

 

[Yakabe]

Hey Duncan,

Any month should be fine, so should not be a problem for me. Weekend preferred.

Wallaroo has a couple of good Caravan parks and there is a lot of opportunity down the peninsula so that would be my suggestions. Maybe Marion Bay or Innes National Park or Pondalowie.

Yakabe.

 

[water_baby]

i guess october will be the easiest, just cos its the closest!

adrian, will be in contact about a trip up your way in the next fortnight, maybe Price again, or Pt Riley for snapper, squid and salmon (which i hear is going OK at the moment :wink: )

and all other SA boys, if you wanna come, ill put it up in "fishing trips" when we work something out. Saturdays are now good for me (lacrosse is over) so it mite be a goer.

either way, ill be in touch

 

[Gator]

As Jacko is busy for the next two weeks - How about we target the weekend of the 8th of October. Looks like there are 5 of us ready and able so far. Drum it up with the others.

I favour an overnighter and Yakabe says there is a couple of good caravan parks close by to Wallaroo. If tenting is a pain I am sure we could go in on a cabin and share the costs?

Are we getting there?

 

[Mattdogger]

Reckon the 8th sounds good. I'd be happy to camp, or cabin it don't mind. Just saw the kingfish on the back of sun paper caught at the powerstation up that way.... blimey!! Catch that in a yak! :shock: 8)

 

[Yakabe]

8th of October is good for me as well. Lets hope the weather turns it on for us. If it is going to be Wallaroo, l will get all the accomodation options and post them for everyone.

Water_baby, give me yell when you want come for a fish. Weekends probably best at the moment. There have been some nice salmon caught at late, quite a few ruggers in close to about 45cm, and plenty of squid. Problem being is the weather has been terrible for the kayak. I have done quite well from the rocks though, with a 60cm salmon and a few ruggers in the last 2 weeks. With the blow, weekend just gone I am hoping that it will have brought some bigger snapper in close this evening. The jetty has been producing some snapper to 4kg as well.

Yakabe.

 

[fisher]

Gday fellas - you can pencil me and Scupper for that weekend provided the weather is ok. Being school holidays it might impact on accommodation options a bit?? Haven't been out much lately so am really looking forward to it!

 

[JW]

G'day Duncan

Great Idea, But I wont be able to make it this time due to family commitments.

Have been fishing the port river most weekends over the last few months and catching good numbers of 30cm+ bream (things have improved since the last time we went out). If you, or anybody else, would like to join me for a session, just send a PM.

Enjoy the trip.

 

[Yakabe]

If we can get this to go, hopefully we can get us some good points in the October fishing comp and put SA on the top of the list for that month. This will mean Saturday will have to be the comp day for us. This will give us extra incentive to crack onto some big stuff. :wink:

Yakabe.

 

[scupper]

Hey Yakabe,
Seeing that it's your home turf, where do suggest we launch (albeit weather dependent)?
I was (boat) fishing off the point between Moonta Bay and Wallaroo last w/e and could see Bird Island.
Do you know much about this area for fishing as it looks a likely yak spot.

Regards Scupper

 

[Jacko]

i will be in whyalla on a fishing charter that weekend in a stink boat

 

[Yakabe]

Hey everybody,

In light of Scuppers question I thought that I might put a couple of maps up of places we could venture.

Map 1 is of Bird Is. I have not fished here myself but yesterday I spoke the guys at Compleat Angler. On the map they were saying that best bet is to take the road marked B. on the map. This will get you very close to the main points of interest. Road A. will get you to within about 1km. I will have to get exact instructions. The guys said that if you head out past the mangrove area and on to the rocky island at the end, you will catch salmon, kingfish, whiting, drummer and tommies + your reef fish. They said to be careful of the tide as it rips over the rocks and they see the occasional shark out there also. Closer in there is whiting, gar, ST's, crabs, squid and snook to be had on the shallower areas.

Map 2 is of Riley. I have put down 3 possible launching areas. I have not kayak fished up here yet but I LBF regularly, and I know the fishing can be excellent. Spot A. is probably our best shot as there is plenty of room to park the fleet. This will give us a shot at Black Rock which is a very good reef area that is a good spot for snapper. Spot B. has smaller area to park but could be worth a try. It would give us access to my spot x that has this year produced a 6kg, and a number of around 40 - 45cm ruggers. There has been at least 1 10kg, and another couple of around 6kg snapper caught here. There are lots of squid and often large schools of salmon. I have spoken to an old timer who said that the area used to be very good for big whiting also. Spot A. is the Pt itself. This would give us access to the hut which you will often hear about in the paper/fishing reports etc. I am not sure how far it is off the shore but apparently there are some nice holes that are quite close. Those with sounders should be able to assist. Directly off the hut is a great squid fishing ground that a lot of locals fish. South of Riley there are lots of good squid fishing also.

Aside from that we could fish Wallaroo bay, which would be more of a specticle for the locals. But there are some good snook, whiting, gar and squid to be caught. The marina has started to pick up for bream and sometimes you will see kingfish, mulloway and salmon trout caught here. And of course the jetty. A few legal snapper caught at night at the moment, even though my fish yesterday at the jetty, saw me mixing company with seals and dolphins.

There is also Cape Elizabeth.

Regards,

Yakabe.

 

[fisher]

Here's a couple of pics of some options in that area. Unfortunately googleearth is not very good for the Wallaroo area, so have used the SA Atlas.

 

[Gator]

Hey Yakabe: have you had the opportunity to check up on the local accommodation? We might want to book in ASAP just in case there are many school holiday makers in the area.

 

[Yakabe]

Hey Duncan,

Hear are a couple of links to the local caravan parks with prices. Both seem to be quite nice and have beach frontage.

http://www.parks-sa.com.au/obhcc.html

http://www.parks-sa.com.au/wnbcp.html

I am also going to speak to a fella I know today about his holiday shack. So will get back to you soon.

Yakabe.

 

[fisher]

Are there any ideas on where and when we should meet? Scupper and I will aim to leave southern Adelaide at about 0400am, so we can be there and ready to go around 0700am (unless a later start is wanted). here's the tide times for saturday 7th and sunday 8th...

Saturday: High 0507am 1.27m; low 1129am .42m; high 1727pm
Sunday: High 0517am 1.45m; low 1201pm .34m; high 1751 1.10pm

looks like a reasonable high tide coinciding with late afternoon saturday, might be a good Pt Riley option?

 

[Yakabe]

In a previous post I said that I would talk to someone with regards to a shack in North Beach. It is free for that weekend and would cost $150 a night.

If you guys are interested in this please let me know.

Yakabe.

 

[fisher]

Gday Yakabe - at this point in time Scupper and I are planning to use his camper in one of the caravan parks - but let us know if any beds remain available for the saturday night in case we want to look to something a bit more comfortable.

 

[Jacko]

damm sounds like a good trip and im busy fishin on a stink boat

 

[Yakabe]

OK here is a tentative intinerary for the weekend, weather depending.

At a pre-arranged time we meet in Moonta, probably at or near the servo on the way into town. We then head down to Bird Island for a morning fish and a look around. We come back into Moonta for lunch (great pizza at the La Cantina down on the water near the jetty).

We head up to Wallaroo for an afternoon fish north of Riley (Fisher the picture that you posted is a great place to launch, north 500m of good squid, salmon, whiting and snapper fishing and 500m south to a good squid area) as the tide high and time is a good one. Then back to my place for a BBQ etc. For those who are "keen" we could also fish the haven or channels in the marina for bream and who knows what else after dinner (the marina always seems to turn up suprises, lately just legal snapper and some small mulloway have been caught).

Sunday we head over to Price and head into the estuary system (if you want some crabs there are plenty so bring a net). A great place for SP's, but HB's will collect weed. The channel for HB's would be good though.

Any comments on this.

Yakabe.