Lake Wauwauba Fishing Guide, South Australia, South Australia

• Overview

  You will find Lake Wauwauba in South Australia. Height above sea level is 35 metres. The water covers some 21 hectares, so pick a bank rather than trying to cover it all. Our South Australia list holds plenty of bigger water. Head to Broken Hill, 130 km away, for anything you forgot. Peterborough follows at 263 km, then Quorn at 274 km. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lake Wauwauba

  There is no recorded depth, so work from what you can see. A natural lake fishes on cover, and cover here means weed and timber. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Lake Wauwauba gives up more to patience than to distance. Bait sits where the wind pushes it, and so do the fish.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The year swings from about 11°C in July to roughly 28°C in January. Cold never becomes a factor on this one. Levels swing with the wet season, which moves the fishing about. June through August is cool but far from dead. Plan around that when you fish Lake Wauwauba. Weed growth peaks in late summer and changes where you can fish.

• Tackle & Baits

  The paperwork position is blank for this one. Mapped as intermittent, it fills after rain and shrinks between. Access is unmapped, which usually means a farm track and a walk. Look for a notice board at the entrance. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. Should this one be busy, Lake Charles is 14 km off. What applies at Lake Wauwauba may have changed since it was mapped.