Fishing Nanga Bay
Submitted by ROBBBO on Thu, 2025-07-17 18:37
G'day All
An old fart here :). Haven't been in the West too long and looking at a first trip with the boat, probably to Nanga Bay next month. just after any advice at all that would help get me on to a few fish, not fussed on species, it's mostly for fun, although wouldn't mind a feed or two of decent table fish. Boat is a 5.4m with 130 donk. Bringing a mate from over East that is mainly used to bait fishing for bream and flathead, so would like to get him onto something bigger too. any advice would be much appreciated!
Cheers
Robbo
Bradmac73
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Date Joined: 22/03/17
Been a while but .....
Hey Robbo,
Haven't been since 2021, but can't imagine much has changed. If y0u head north about 10kms, there's some good channels pretty close in that hold nice Black snapper, pretty much aligne dwith the southern end of middle flat, which is clear on your GPS (and also well worth a fish).
If you want to catch good pinks, straight out from the caravan park until it drops off to about 12m depth (guessing about 7km out?). It's flat gravelly ground without a shred of anything on it, but it's the pink snapper highway. Fishes best on dusk, and as long as the weather is reasonable, it's an easy motor in after dark, just head toward the bit flood light over the fillet table on the beach.
I believe the caravan park has been bought by summer star, so hopefully there'll be some upgrades soon as it's all a bit tired.