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Fishing

Photos Courtesy : Andrew Zealand, Sebastian Sohlberg and Sally Horne

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Local Laws –Size and Bag Limits

Visit Fisheries at http://www.pir.sa.gov.au/

Eyre Peninsula is without doubt one of the finest fishing areas in Australia, having countless locations from Whyalla to the Western Australia border where abundant and varied catches are the norm. Whether you are a fanatical boat fisherman, an adventurous rock or surfcaster, or a rank amateur who enjoys relaxing with a line dangling from a jetty, the "West Coast" will satisfy your needs and supply you with a wide variety of fresh fish.

Near Venus Bay

Venus Bay is a large, almost totally land-locked bay and offers excellent boat and jetty fishing all year round. The jetty offers good catches of tommy ruff and trevally for the jetty fishermen. Garfish and mullet are also often caught from the jetty.

Venus bay offers idyllic sheltered waters for small boat fishermen. A concrete slab ramp north of the jetty provides easy access to the sheltered waters for boat fishermen who seek their regular bag of whiting by day and scan the waters just east of the town on a hot summer's night for flounder.

Outside the Venus bay entrance is an absolute mecca for the fishermen, if you have a boat large enough to get outside the heads. These waters fishing grounds for whiting, trevally, salmon, flathead, snapper and shark.

A couple of great references on the old King George’s are:

King George Whiting Information from Fishnet

Catching King George Whiting by Geoff Wilson

Anxious Bay, with its white sandy beach broken only by Walkers Rocks and one other small rocky outcrop, stretches south some 38kms from Talia Caves, and whilst access to the section of beach from Walkers Rocks to Talia Caves is limited to four wheel drive vehicles only, this beach offers excellent beach fishing for salmon and the occasional tailor or mulloway.

Mount Camel Beach between Talia Caves and Venus Bay offers superb surf fishing all year round for salmon, mullet and large tommies.

Accessible by conventional vehicle, look for the signpost off highway. If you would like to take a fishing trip to Venus Bay email us

Fishing in the Area

Signposting at Sheringa 41kms south of Elliston is important for two reasons: it will direct you inland to No-Where-Else and no fish, or it will direct you west to one of the two great fishing locations in the Elliston area - Sheringa Beach, just 8km off the Flinders Highway. and Locks Well further down the track.

At Sheringa the first sandy beach on the left with a magnificent backdrop of large white dunes provides excellent beach fishing for whiting in the numerous green holes, whilst to the west, you will be rewarded with good catches of sweep from the rocks. Well-worn tracks will direct you to these locations.

Travel a little further west and the second Sheringa Beach offers you surf fishing for salmon at its best. Sheringa Beach and Locks Well are well known for superb surf fishing. These beaches consistently produce the large salmon that surf fishermen base their stories on. The popularity of Locks Well encouraged the community of Elliston to construct a 120 metre wooden staircase (278 steps!) to provide a safe and leisurely access to the beach. A lookout has also been constructed.

Elliston and the waters of Waterloo Bay offer many opportunities for beach fisherman to catch whiting, trevally and sweep from the rocks. The town jetty, which is lit at night, gives anglers the chance to get good catches of tommy ruff, garfish, snook and whilst you are there, it is worth your while to try for squid.

Skindiving and spear fishing are popular in the Bay, which also has a concrete boat ramp for boat fisherman. The Bay has recently been closed to all forms of netting.

The shores of Anxious Bay, easily accessible by direct road or via an alternate scenic drive capturing magnificent coastal scenery, provides excellent beach fishing for whiting and a concrete ramp offers easy access for boat fishermen to these waters and those of nearby Waldegrave Island, where fishermen will be rewarded with catches of garfish, King George whiting and other species of whiting.

Streaky Bay, provides a wide variety of locations, so that adverse weather conditions may be countered by travelling to a more sheltered area. Jetty fishermen will be rewarded with catches of tommy ruff, salmon trout and snook. During the summer months of November and December, snapper can be caught.

The shores of the Bay and nearby Perlubie Beach offer excellent beach fishing for whiting and nearby Back Beach, Speeds Point, High Cliff and the Granites offer surf fishing for salmon. Launching facilities are provided for boat fishermen and this vast expanse of water is a fishermen's paradise returning catches of King George whiting, snapper, trevally, snook, salmon trout and garfish.

Smooth Pool, with its natural breakwater, is a great picnic spot for the family and offers fishing for trevally, whiting and salmon. Sceale Bay and Baird Bay to the south which have boat launching facilities are renowned for their whiting grounds and are popular destinations for visitors.

Local Laws –Size and Bag Limits

Visit Fisheries at http://www.pir.sa.gov.au/

Please make sure you are conversant with South Australian fishing regulations, which are available at most shops which sell bait or tackle and remember that once you have caught enough for your own needs, every fish you put back will have offspring for you to catch next time you visit the area.

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