Golden Beach 18/10-21/10

[TBR Club]

Big Swing and a Miss Fishing Wise...

Headed down for a boys weekend all eager to get into the surf and some fishing with 3 days of good weather and three nights of full moon action on paper was perfect fishing weekend. End result far from it.
By the end of the trip had caught a total of two decent flatties, one baby leopard shark, slight much bigger leopard shark and waaaaay too many crabs.

Fished from sun up to sun down basically for three days and not much to show for our efforts.
I've got a feeling the water may have been a bit too cold for any action, am I right in thinking this?

With the fish not biting all that too often gave us all a chance to have a few brews and talk a bit of bull as we guys do.

Cheers

[ned14]

Salmon like the cold, pretty surprised you didnt get much.
You should've gone to lorne instead if it was a fishing trip, mate went over the weekend and caught plenty of salmon and a few trevally too.

[ratbag]

Was tough fishing in the weekend there, I went down too only to have a local tell the trawlers went thru from Seaspray to Lakes on thur/fri.

[nickb123]

i fished there friday arvo/night and the trawler came through 3 times while i was there after reports of all those gummys taken during the week, he was in that close you could just about cast at him that could explain a lot

[toygtr]

Is there a way to find out when the trawlers are going to go past like a schedule or something or they do what they want?

[davidsim]

I used to fish golden beach a fair bit and was told by locals that the trawler wasn't even suppose to be that close to shore hence why they trawl a night. Not sure if the information I was given was correct but should be illegal anyway for the trawler to be working so close to shore.

[nickb123]

I used to fish golden beach a fair bit and was told by locals that the trawler wasn't even suppose to be that close to shore hence why they trawl a night. Not sure if the information I was given was correct but should be illegal anyway for the trawler to be working so close to shore.

Yes you are right dave they are not supposed to be in that close but they do it anyways, their profits far outweigh the fines they receive :down: there is also a stretch along paradise beach they are not supposed to fish but they do it anyway its pretty hard to stop really

[TBR Club]

Yeh I was told that a trawler came long from a local as well, that really grinds my gears.

[Ali22]

Salmon like the cold, pretty surprised you didnt get much.
You should've gone to lorne instead if it was a fishing trip, mate went over the weekend and caught plenty of salmon and a few trevally too.

Of the pier or around the rocks ? And how big ?