Fishing Busselton
Submitted by sam321 on Sat, 2016-07-02 18:00
Hello everyone!
heading down to busso to house sit a family friends house for a week. taking my 5.2m ally boat down hopefully get into some fishing. Wondering if people could give us some pointers.
I am thinking head out to the 20m mark/4 mile reef and hopefully sound around for schools and drop some floating baits and paternoster rigs down.
I heard the ground is quite flat and not much structure, I was wondering if someone could tell me how to differentiate between sandy bottom/coral/flat reef. Also what is the fishing like this time of year. Any other tips or if you want to send us some marks ;) feel free to messge me or comment!!
Cheers fellas You guys are legends
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I have all the gear but no idea
Feral
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Date Joined: 01/11/06
Fishing the cape around
Fishing the cape around dunsborough is more productive as there is much more structure. But if your wanting to fish the 4 mile. Head out from marina till you get to 18m. The depth will jump back up to 16m signifying youve just found the reef . Its really only a rock wall that comes up a meter or 2 but can hold a few reasonable fish . Usually schools of skippy and sambos with the odd dhu .
meglodon
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What about the artificial reef
It might be worth giving the artificial reef down that way a good looking over.
MattMiller
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Date Joined: 15/06/09
Unproductive
the artificial reefs are simply unproductive compared to fishing normal hard bottom.
If you're chasing Dhuies head out past 25m and look for some hard bottom with shows of fish within 2m of the bottom.
If Pinkies are your thing this year has been sensational with fish being caught throughout the bay.
Best bet is to find a small lump or sound out a school of bait or even better bigger fish, anchor, berley hard and fish around dawn/dusk. Had most success this year in 14-16m but they are everywhere.