Leech Lake in Coorong: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  This water sits in Coorong, South Australia. The surroundings are scrub and brush. Keith is the closest town at 44 km. The big place round here is Adelaide, 190 km distant. Nearest other option: Lake Ellen 30 km off, The Coorong just 52 km and Black Cocky 58 km off. No border sits close enough to matter. Trees shelter part of the bank when the wind gets up.

• Where to Fish on Leech Lake

  Our records carry no depth, so judge it from the bank. Weed, then depth: that is the order to fish a water of this kind. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Leech Lake responds to conditions more than to tactics. Colour after rain pulls fish into the margins.

• Seasonal Patterns

  In an average year February sits at 21°C and July at 11°C. Nothing shuts down for cold, so the question is when in the day to go. Summer, December to February, brings heat, so fish the early and late hours. Spring, September into November, fishes hardest, with autumn a close second. That is the shape of the year on Leech Lake.

• Tackle & Baits

  No access rule appears in what we hold. Nothing formal is recorded here: no ramp, no car park, no marked path. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. Access can change hands, so last year's answer may not hold. The nearest alternative is Lake Ellen, 30 km out. For Leech Lake in particular, ask before you travel.