Carnarvon bread and butter fish

Hello all,

Hopefully in a manner of weeks I'll be moving the family to Carnarvon.  I'll be bringing up a boat and I'm keen to get into some serious fishing.  In saying that, I've read around the forums from this site and I have a fair understanding of what the conditions and fishing will be like offshore.  What I can't find information on is the fishing inshore like spots that are good to go with the kids on a day that's not great to head offshore.

Can anyone tell me if any bread and butter type fish are caught in the river before hitting the ocean or around the canals?  Also the crabs, are they cauht around the canals etc.

Cheers

Steve


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 Bream are plentiful around

Fri, 2016-01-29 18:49

 Bream are plentiful around any jetty. Whiting on the tidal sandflat shallows. Flatties on the banks. Jacks in the creeks. Crabs in the fascine during the winter months. A river is expected after Stan has visited the inland regions so mulloway can be expected at the one mile jetty

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the barge

Sat, 2016-01-30 14:08

I have lived in Carnarvon and still visit regularly.The barge is about 800m west from the last channel marker and has mulloway like the one mile.I dont have the cords but can be picked up on a sounder. Head WNW Trolling lures, big tailor, mackeral and small bronze whalers are a chance.I have fished it out of a tinny at night when the sea is calm and caught undersize mulloway and fished during the middle of the day and caught plus metre mulloway,bronze whalers and massive tailor.Pink snapper can turn up any time.Tides are important 2hr before and after works.Sometimes nothing happens until 1 minute after high tide then its pandemonium.If its not happening go to either the prawning jetty or 1 mile and cast into the pylons. school mackeral and big tailor are always on the prowl.Use wire trace if you are serious about catching a monster as anything can happen anytime.The yellowfin bream fishing is brilliant off the end of the prawning jetty in winter out of a tinny.The odd suprise like bluelined emperer,golden trevally and dart will put in an appearance.Coral prawns on a long shank and mulie strips on a small gang will catch bait and keepers all day long with flathead and grinners plus tiny whiting.Great fun for kids with the odd big bust off.I have landed school mackerel up to 750mm with a 10lb bait stick but would recommend 20lb with a wire trace and 4/0 gang and whole baitcast mulie for real fishing as big cobia and 50lb mulloway can really test you skill.Have your anchor set with quick release and float as you will have to chase something one day.If you fish for sharks you will get sharks especially after dark.I sometimes take my 80kg braid game stick to the one mile and float a whole mullet out on a monster gang with 7 foot of 300lb twist weld and have yet to land a managable shark.I have gaffed small bronze whalers for other people but I seem to always get the big tigers and whalers.Plastics and lures work very well on everything.The facsine in front off the Gascoigne hotel will entertain the kids with soft plastics on light lines.I have landed 7 species in 7 casts in the middle of the day,most will be juvenile and can be released easily.Hope this helps for a startup I will P.M as I will be there soon Duncan

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Sat, 2016-01-30 14:09

My post picture is in Carnarvon

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