ON THE BITE: Peri Stavropoulos
Once again the garfish have been on fire inside the bay with St Helens producing as many as you want!
Pretty much any tide and any time of day have been fishing well – the trick is to get a good solid burley trail out with tiny pieces of bait suspended under a pencil float.
St Helens is the current hot spot but there are plenty of other locations that are fishing well like Limeburners and Grammar School Lagoon.
A few weeks of windy conditions have really fired up the rock fishing inside the bay as of late with quality fish being caught, with St Helens yet again being the hot spot.
Pinkie snapper have been reported to be in good numbers off the rocks with fish reaching more than 2kg in weight and anglers saying they have been missing out on some much bigger catches too.
Cunningham Pier has had a small run of silver whiting cruising up and down the jetty over the past week and typically, when we see them show up, the snapper aren’t too far behind.
Queenscliff has been fishing well for calamari over the past week also with the bight starting to produce some big specimens.
Drifting through the deep water on a slack tide with silver whiting on a squid spike is working best.
Ideally you want to fish in clean water, so the last few days of windy conditions could add some colour to it. But when it passes, it should be fishing well.
The surf beaches along the coast have had a few reports of Australian salmon coming on the chew for anglers shore-casting with metal lures.
Along the Great Ocean Road the rock platforms are another prime location to go and have a cast. Bait fishing is also an effective method to pick up a few fish too.
Wurdi Buloc Reservoir has been fishing quite well over the week with trout and redfin.
Trout to 1.5kg have been in respectable numbers casting off the rocks, casting shallow diving hardbodies in minnow profile have been a prime lure to throw around for one.
Redfin have also been biting well along there too with spoon lures working best.
