Wurdee Boluc Reservoir produced exceptional fishing for trout and redfin in the past week.
Jake Connelly worked his way along the east rock wall last Wednesday afternoon when a chunky 45cm redfin latched onto his lure and headed straight for the rocks before it was pulled free.
Michael Evans spent Sunday afternoon casting Fish Arrow Flash J soft plastics, so when his rod loaded up he expected another large redfin. However, he was surprised to land a brown trout of 2.3kg.
Darren Wilson and Gabor Horvath fished Lake Bullen Merri with trolled pink Tassie Devils, boating two 1.5kg salmon. Anglers fishing the bank caught salmon on Powerbait and worms.
Lake Bolac produced numerous reports of football-sized rainbow trout on lightly weighted running sinker rigs baited with glassies on bright days or pilchard fillets on the dull days. Bait has been more successful than lures due to the discoloured shallow water.
Lake Wendouree continued fishing well from the bank for anglers drifting out mudeyes under floats for rainbow and brown trout.
The Barwon River around Breakwater hosted excellent numbers of carp to 6kg. Anglers catching these hard-fighters also have the satisfaction of knowing they are helping the environment by removing noxious fish.
Samuel Allbutt and his three-year-old son travelled to Swan Bay to fish for gummy sharks only to discover after finding a suitable spot in the channel that they’d left the bait home. They resorted to drifting for squid out the front of the bay, caught two, then returned to the channel where they caught a gummy of 5kg with their fresh bait.
Nearby, Queenscliff Harbour produced silver trevally to 40cm on Gulp turtleback worm soft plastics in Pumpkinseed colour. The change of tide was the best time to fish.
Squid were also taken inside the harbour on size 2.5 Yamashita jigs.
Jan Juc Beach was excellent for the salmon. Fishing the lead up to high tide around sunrise or sunset provided the best action.
Anglers fishing Jan Juc into the night with bait such as fresh salmon fillet caught gummy sharks to 8kg.
Daniel Baden and I fished Geelong’s waterfront on Saturday afternoon, finding pinkie snapper to 35cm around the old Yarra St Pier area. The most productive lure was once again a three-inch Gulp minnow in the smelt pattern.
Portland continued hosting good numbers of school-sized bluefin fish. Trolled skirted lures again proved effective when covering a large area of water.
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