ON THE BITE with Peri Stavropoulos
The Bellarine Peninsula has finished exceptionally well this week for a lot of species, especially if you were after a delicious feed.
King George whiting, flathead, pinky snapper and calamari are all on the chewin the area.
Fishing in the dirty water for the whiting has been ideal and ideally on the start of the run out tide with fresh pipis or squid proving to be the best bait on a running sinker rig.
There has also been plenty of silver whiting in the area so what Benetton stock up on the bait ready for the snapper season ahead.
Calamari have been responding very well lately on major craft gigs in a size 3.0. Natural colour jigs and also bright pink jigs have been the stand out as of late.
Offshore Barwon Heads continues to fish very well for pinky snapper and gummy sharks with plenty of reports of boats making most of the good weather getting stuck at some quality fish. Drifting or fishing on anchor anywhere from 30 to 50 metre waterline has been producing some fantastic fish with gummy sharks over 15kg and snapper over 4kg being caught. There also seems to be plenty of tuna life out the front towards Cape Schanck, school tuna and a few whispers of barrels are getting around at the moment.
There is plenty of life including bait, seals, dolphins, birds and whales so there’s no surprise that the tuna will be there, too.
Barwon River around Ocean Grove has been fishing very well for silver trevally and Australian
salmon on soft plastics. Either landbased, in a boat or kayak has been producing plenty of good fish in deeper holes on the incoming in slack tides.
When fishing in this area with small plastic, you might catch other species including mullet, pinky snapper and flathead.
Stony Creek Reservoir and Wurdi Bullock Reservoir have both fished very well this past week with redfin and trout captures coming in just about every single day. For redfin, spoons style lures have been a hot favourite allowing you to cast a long way to cover maximum water and for trout, shallow diving jerk baits have been working a treat.
