Tathra wharf baits and lures

[Whitingmaster7]

I’m heading up to tathra in a few days and was wondering what fish I could target this time of year and what bait or lures would be good
Cheers

[Longbombs]

You'll always find salmon, pinkies trevally, yakkas, squid and classic inshore species... there are always kingfish that cruise the area. Could get tailor I assume too.

Smaller paternoster rigs (or sabiki) directly under the pier is good for smaller species - use prawn, chicken, squid... all the standard baits.

Small plastics work well for the smaller stuff too.

Salmon - spinning metals and divers. Any 3-4" plastic will work too (probably better).

Kingfish - live bait anything you can get, put it under a float.

I dont think you'll get any pelagics this time of year, but who knows.

Flathead and jewies in the river will also be fishing well I reckon.

[purple5ive]

whatever you do, make sure your gear can lift it up onto the pier. its a big drop from the pier down to the water.

[fishingvic]

There's an absolutely heartbreaking tragedy that happened at Tathra wharf too...

[Whitingmaster7]

Thanks I’ll definetly have to have a live bait out while fishing for other small things
Also, is there any specific tide that the kingies come in most commonly on?

[canned_tuna]

There's an absolutely heartbreaking tragedy that happened at Tathra wharf too...

Theres more to this one than what has been told, but it is definitely a tragedy that could have been avoided.

Good luck fishing the wharf, as has already been said might not be the bigger stuff around this time of year but I have caught heaps of salmon, taior and big barracouta in september

[Whitingmaster7]

What’s the tragedy?