The outer harbour of Corio Bay has had some fantastic reports of King George whiting with anglers finding large numbers of fish and at a quality size.
Some anglers are taking home bags of fish with the average around 40cm with some over 45cm, which is a fantastic fish for this area. Fishing the tides with squid has been super effective and having burley in the water certainly helps.
Around the peninsula has had some really good gummy shark fishing inside the bay with St Leonards through to Queenscliff fishing quite well. Fishing the tides with fresh salmon or squid for bait is proving to be irresistible to the gummies. Some anglers have been landing numerous sharks in a session with some to 15kg.
Calamari also remain a high interest for anglers and for good reason as they seem to be in fantastic numbers across the peninsula. Size 3.0 and 3.5 jigs are working best with Duel Squid Jigs doing some serious damage.
Down the west coast, the tuna are going very well with Portland on fire with school fish. Gone fishing charters has been dominating down there getting their customers on lots of fish with the odd big boy popping up here and there. The crew landed one on the weekend that went 77kg (dressed). If you are chasing a barrel then it is worth the little extra drive and getting down to Port MacDonnell as the fish down that way are going really well with reports coming through nearly daily (weather permitting).
Skirted lures are working very well such as the JB’s and Billmark Lures with some fish also coming off live baits.
Moving inland and the High Country mountain rivers and streams have been fishing very well with both brown and rainbow trout on the chew. The flow is just right and has turned the fish on big time.
Peri and Adam from Trellys Geelong made the drive up over the weekend landing heaps of fish with Rapala F5s proving to be a standout yet again.
