ON THE BITE with Peri Stavropoulos
The weather is certainty making it difficult for anglers to get out and, unfortunately, making fishing quite limited to most fishos.
Some locations have really fired up with the rough conditions include the Geelong waterfront, Limeburners Point, St Helens and North Shore.
The fish come in close on an evening with the high seas chasing a feed of all the bait that is being stirred around putting them in a feeding frenzy.
Anglers are picking up plenty of pinky snapper with baits such as pilchards and squid with a few bigger fish coming along to 4kg.
Mainly fishing the evening and with an incoming tide has been the most productive times and when the bigger fish have been on the chew.
The outer harbour has still had some great whiting reports come through with anglers still landing lots of fish with most averaging around high 30s, again with fish to mid 40s.
Again anglers with fresh squid and pipis for bait are picking up lots of fish and the whole Curlewis bank is holding fish.
The Barwon Estuary has been a popular location for anglers this past week trying to escape the wild conditions with a variety of species on the chew including silver trevally, salmon, bream, eps and a few guys chasing mulloway. We haven’t heard any official reports as of yet but there is a bit of hype and talk about it lately so it could be well worth a look.
The Thunderbolt is a fantastic area to have a look if you were hoping to tangle with one or for any of the other species for that matter.
The surf beaches along the coast are starting to fire up with Australian salmon and gummy sharks starting to patrol the gutters.
Anglers fishing with bluebait and pilchards are picking up plenty of fish as well as metal lures that range in size between 20 to 60 grams are working well. Gummy sharks are about at night with anglers fishing with fresh squid, or better yet, fresh salmon they caught earlier.
Paternoster rigs are working well to keep your bait off the bottom from the crabs. Black Magic Long Reach Rigs are perfect for this style of fishing.
