Surf fishing at trafalgar

Gatiepie2

Member
Hi Guys any help on fishing at Trafalgar eg. good spots, what to target at this time of the year. Also where is mushroom rock?
Thanks
Gatiepie2
 

Pslatarix

Sealiner
Boet the whole of trafalgar is good. Just gotta walk and scratch. You get anything there too, so I wouldn't fish with anything thinner than .60 hook snoot. Black cracker, bronze bream, grunter, kob, shad, blacktail, giant stone bream and decent rock cod. Best baits are pink prawn and chocka or redeye chocka combos. If you can get some cray tail you're in the pound seats. Cracker prawn also boss here! Throw a ghost crab if you can get one and even a live pinky or karro throw bait never goes amiss. Dunno where mushroom rock is but I start at the tidal pool and move towards mpenjati (right) fishing all the holes I can. Good luck
 

Pslatarix

Sealiner
Deffo one of my top spots boet. If you get a chance slide a livey off the left hand side of the tidal pool. Been smoked by some big kingys and yellowbellys there. Live karro is the best. Oh almost forgot occy leg (tenderised) is also a top bait here bru. Enjoy it mate.
 

Gatiepie2

Member
Just to report on Trafalgar fishing. On first outing hooked two bronze bream but released them as they were a bit on the small size. Then a very strong NE came through and put paid to the fishing. After that conditions changed although the weather improved. There was a lot of sand in the water and most spots sanded over. I have never seen Trafalgar so sanded over, it is almost like a desert very little life on the rocks.
 

Enigma

Moderator
If you walk most of the way to the river you will clearly see mushroom rock at low tide.

From my experience the best tide to fish the area is last hour of the drop through to the push.

I normally walk all the way through to Mushroom rock and make sure I get there an hour before low.

I walk out to the end of the broken reef and first look for signs of Stonebream feeding on the green weed growing in the sand in front of the reefs and sight cast to them.

When the water is really low walk through onto the sandbank and put a long shot out into the breakers on the back and hold tight.

The closer you get to the outside broken reef the more fish you are going to get and as mentioend earlier it's a full on lucky dip and closer tot he river side the bigger chance you have of Grunter
 

COBIA777

Sealiner
Yip ....... a spring tide allows you to wade out further on the low tide. Sept/ Oct awsome fishing for Bronze Bream and other rock dwelling fish. As explained previously the area is a lucky packet. We have pulled Bronze Bream at this spot in water you would think a fish cant swim, foamy and turbulent...... just what the Bronzies like. Crayfish, Prawn, White Cracker, Crab, Mole Crab, Occie leg,Whole mussel and Livies.

Had a huge fight with the owner of the caravan park many moons ago during a compo round where I was physically attacked and I say again I was attacked from behind, so being short I bent over forward whilst holding on to my rod the dude went flying over me then I realized why, cause he was tall and I was short and pretty fit back then and using his momentum I flung this oke to the ground and as he stood up he screamed at me to get off the beach...... eventualy he tried to break my line with his bare hands that didnt work so he bites my line off......and now me with my short man syndrome in club colours strips a bolt loose...... guys its a long story. Fortunately I had a good record discipline wise so my NCAU hearing with the committee went of well. All of this because of the owner of the Caravan Park not wanting us to fish there. Pathetic behavior on his behalf. Eish I will never forget this.
 

Gavin_7

New member
Hi guys (I see this thread is 6 years old, thought I would try anyway as the overall topic is very relevant to my context)

-- I will be fishing Marina Beach (Centre Rocks) + Trafalgar mid-to-end Sep this year and would appreciate any help / tips.

1) Does any1 know how the fishing has been lately? Do all the previous comments from 6 years ago still apply?

2) If no livey is available to slide off the left of the tidal pool, could one slide a standard slide bait (E.g. a full mackerel?) -- If so, what conditions would be recommended and what species would one expect?

Any other advice / thoughts would be very much appreciated -- I'm very keen to go out and enjoy some time by the water!
 
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