Tambo, Nicholson or Mitchell at this time of year
- Kestrel
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Tambo, Nicholson or Mitchell at this time of year
Hi guys
Am planning to head down to Gippy in a week or so and would like to do some river fishing.
Which river should I target... Tambo, Mitchell or Nicholson ?
I won'y be brinng my boat either!
Regards
Peter
Am planning to head down to Gippy in a week or so and would like to do some river fishing.
Which river should I target... Tambo, Mitchell or Nicholson ?
I won'y be brinng my boat either!
Regards
Peter
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Re: Tambo, Nicholson or Mitchell at this time of year
I've heard the Tambo is doing ok... always heaps of (undersized) bream in there and the Mitchell.
Wouldn't bother with the Nicholson
Wouldn't bother with the Nicholson
Re: Tambo, Nicholson or Mitchell at this time of year
Why not the Nicholson? It's less fished than the others, and has plenty of big bream and flathead. Use lightly weighted spider crabs for the bream if you can get them - this will help ensure better sized fish.
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Re: Tambo, Nicholson or Mitchell at this time of year
Should be good numbers of bigger spawning fish this time of year
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Re: Tambo, Nicholson or Mitchell at this time of year
I went up there 3 weeks ago. The tambo was dead. We stayed at lealow caravan park and drove back to the mitchell every day.
They were on at the cut and the grassy banks. Didnt try the nicholson as we were landbased and theres linited spots to fish from the shore.
The locals up there were all sayen its dead as a door nail.
I agree.
They were on at the cut and the grassy banks. Didnt try the nicholson as we were landbased and theres linited spots to fish from the shore.
The locals up there were all sayen its dead as a door nail.
I agree.
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Re: Tambo, Nicholson or Mitchell at this time of year
Mitchell was firing around the cut area..slowed down a bit now apparently.
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Re: Tambo, Nicholson or Mitchell at this time of year
There was a guy on the TALKING FISHING program on ch44 last week say that the bream numbers are so low that it had reached crisis level
Also said the catch rate is 1/seven minutes across the whole gippsland lakes,i think that included commercial catch (not sure)
Also said the catch rate is 1/seven minutes across the whole gippsland lakes,i think that included commercial catch (not sure)
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Re: Tambo, Nicholson or Mitchell at this time of year
They've had next to no rain, the regions 3 main target species Bream, Perch and Bass all congregate and breed around the salt wedge. Little rainfall producing little fresh influxes coupled with a permanently open entrance to the salt ocean drives the salt wedge further up the rivers, and reduces its overall size concentrating soon to be breeding stock into even smaller sections of the rivers. The pro catch of the 3 species is obviously reduced, given they can't go within cooee of the rivers, and the compacted biomass around the salt wedge reduces recreational access to the fish.... If they bothered to do any actual research for their gossip show they would have actually informed the masses instead of scaremongering garbagefishnut wrote:There was a guy on the TALKING FISHING program on ch44 last week say that the bream numbers are so low that it had reached crisis level
Also said the catch rate is 1/seven minutes across the whole gippsland lakes,i think that included commercial catch (not sure)