We had some big southerly blows in August and lots of rain – 356mm compared to a monthly average of about 40mm. The swell stayed high for most of the month and the river turned brown.

When the swell dropped I had a few sessions fishing on the rockwall . One day I tried just about every lure in my tackle bag but could not get a bite. Sometimes they are just not interested.

The dirty water in the river didn’t trouble the small jewfish which seemed to be everywhere. I was also surprised to catch a few estuary perch.  The bream came out to forage after all the rain. The flathead also did not seem to be worried by all the fresh water in the river.

Only a few of the river jewfish/ mulloway were over the 75 cm minimum size limit. I am sure the bigger ones were out there.

Out on the headlands I had a few sessions where I caught tailor, but they were hard to find.