Windang Beach

[mako1]

The plan was to hit the beach early and fish for bream and whiting before the southerly came.

I arrived at 6am and found a nice gutter.

I missed a few fish early but they soon started hitting the sand.

There were a lot of just undersized whiting mixed in with the keeper fish.

I was having a chat to a local when I got a good hit. It was a good salmon and it gave me a top fight on bream gear. I ended up giving the salmon to the local as he likes to use them in fish cakes.

I kept on fishing and landed some more whiting and bream. I had another good hit and was into another good salmon. It went 65cm. I kept it to salt down for bait.

I caught a few more smaller whiting and two more salmon, which were all released and then the wind increased so I called it a day with a good feed to take home.

[jonno86]

Nice catches there Mako

What was your line setup and bait you used?

[matjaksco]

me and the wife will be going to stay at Warilla bowls club in Feb, any good fishing spots and what to try and catch would be of great assistance

matjaksco

[mako1]

Nice catches there Mako

What was your line setup and bait you used?

I was using 4KG main line and a similar sized fluorocarbon leader. I used twisted paternoster rigs with size 4 Mustad long shank baitholder hooks. I was using star sinkers as I had two rods out and there was a side current.

The bait was beachworms and yabbies.

me and the wife will be going to stay at Warilla bowls club in Feb, any good fishing spots and what to try and catch would be of great assistance

matjaksco

If you are going to fish from the beach both Windang and Warilla are great beaches to fish from.

All you need to do is find the gutters on the beach which are the deeper sections. The water is darker in colour and the waves don't tend to break till they reach the shore.

You can target bream, whiting, salmon and tailor. The bream and whiting usually hold on the edges of the gutters and in close in the shore dump. The tailor and salmon tend to hold in the deeper sections of the gutter.

For the bream and whiting you can use a similar rig to the one I have mentioned above and the same baits.

You could even try peeled prawns and fish strips for the bream.

For the tailor and salmon use a running sinker rig with a 50cm, 10-15KG trace and a set of 3/0 ganged hooks tied to the end. Pilchards would be the best bait.

If it is too windy or the waves are too big you could try the mouth section of Lake Illawarra between the breakwall and the bridge. You can catch bream whiting and flathead there. Just use a running sinker rig suitable to the conditions and use worm or yabbie baits.