Kingfish were taken off Ocean Grove and Barwon Heads in the past week but proved a little more challenging to locate.
Dropping smaller jigs onto schooled up fish located with a sounder did the trick, resulting in kings to 70cm.
Other anglers drifting out wide in 50m bagged large numbers of tiger flathead. Tackleworld Geelong’s Kevin Hunter boated an impressive bag of tigers on baits bounced along the bottom.
Mark Sesar, Adrian Cole and Keith Fry ventured out of Barwon Heads on Sunday, encountering plenty of seven gill sharks while fishing baits on the bottom. Then Mark caught some mackerel and baited them up under a balloon, eventually catching a mako shark off about 60kg that took 20 minutes to subdue.
Anglers also sought kingfish inside The Rip at Queenscliff, with some managing to take the larger specimens known to haunt this area.
Australian salmon erupted on the surface in a feeding frenzy most days in the Rip, with anglers boating great numbers on small metal lures and soft plastic cast among the commotion.
Whiting were taken off the grass beds to the east of Queenscliff Harbour, again on pippies and tenderised squid.
Tackleworld Geelong’s Michael Moore spent Sunday afternoon catching a variety of species at Swan Bay. Casting hard-body lures and Gulp soft plastics along the channel edges, Michael boated silver trevally to an outstanding 50cm and flathead to 62cm along with pinkie snapper and even King George whiting.
Michael also caught squid over the grass beds in 3m to 4m.
Corio Bay was a hotspot for pinkies, with the fish holding over the spoil grounds and in tight around structure. Soft-plastic anglers fared best but bait also picked up the odd nice flathead.
Tony Hynds cast plastics along the waterfront for pinkies to 40cm along with some pike. Silver blade lures worked well for Tony.
Alcoa Pier held schools of salmon to 1kg, which took trolled lures.
The Barwon River estuary continued fishing well for bream and mulloway, with live bait fished on the incoming tide best for both species. Some of the mulloway reached 85cm.
Portland produced kingfish and southern bluefin on stick bait lures. The average size of both species was 8kg to 12kg, with anglers covering plenty of water faring best.
Freshwater anglers caught smaller model rainbow trout at Wurdee Boluc Reservoir on mudeye suspended under floats in the evenings.
Justin Burns and daughters Aisha and Amity took some well-conditioned carp from the Barwon River, with the fish providing an excellent fight on light tackle.
With great weather forecast, next week should be good for kingfish offshore and in The Rip, while anglers who head offshore could find mako shark. Freshwater anglers should find plenty of smaller redfin around Queen’s Park Bridge.
