White other anglers targeted snapper, Mark Sesar and Adrian Cole fished around the White Lady off St Leonards recently in search of whiting.
With a little in the berley, they were soon into a frantic session that ended with 33 fish, a dozen of which were at 38cm.
Windy weather last week focused anglers to seed sheltered waters, with Queenscliff Harbour again producing silver trevally to 40cm for anglers casting soft plastics into the cut and around moored boats. Some of the best results were at night, with the trevally holding around the harbour lights, which attract schools of bait.
Large squid were still available in the deeper sections of Queenscliff Bight, where the fast water demanded larger jig sizes.
Schools of Australian salmon were spotted feeding on the surface occasionally, with trolled white occy skirted lures catching fish.
Clifton Springs again produced snapper. Andrew Pettit and father James fished just out from the quarries on Sunday morning with fresh silver whiting, quickly boating a snapper over 4kg.
Further up the bay, Dylan Curran tried again off Werribee, this time catching a personal-best of 93cm and 8.2kg.
Soft plastic anglers worked reef structures around Werribee for snapper to 4kg at first and last light. Small fish were a problem, though.
Brain Long and John Mole encountered some exceptional salmon fishing down the Surf Coast.
Spinning from the rock platforms around Lorne, they banked salmon to just over 2kg in wet conditions.
Tackleworld Geelong’s Adam Van Der Lught fished estuary systems between Mallacoota and Tathra, landing a wide variety of species including bream, flathead, salmon and tailor on soft plastics and hard-body lures.
Some of his standouts included bream over 40cm and flathead over 70cm.
Lake Eildon remained hot for freshwater fishing over the past week.
Justin Burns spent a day casting lures at the lake edges, boating yellowbelly of over 50cm.
Andrew Richmond fished Eildon with his daughter, with the pair catching and releasing numerous cod to just over 60cm and witnessing a few follows from some much larger fish.
The Barwon River continued producing redfin averaging 800g for persistent anglers.
The best locations were Breakwater and further up to Queen’s Park, with lures worked tight around undercut banks caught numbers of fish.
Queenscliff should continue fishing well for large squid and salmon over the next week, while the Wilson Spit area should be a good starting point for snapper.
Freshwater anglers should consider the drive to Lake Eildon.
