ON THE BITE with Peri Stavropoulos
The Geelong inner harbour this week still offered some great land-based action this week with some impressive snapper being reported.
North Shore, St Helens, Wangim Walk and Limeburners all produced the goods.
Most anglers are reporting fish around the 1kg mark, however to the patient ones, there are fish to 6kg cruising about. The outer harbour is still offering some great King George whiting fishing around the Curlewis bank with reports still coming in thick.
Some fish have been getting up to over 40cm with the average size around the low 30s, which are still fantastic fish for the bay. Fishing the strong tides with quality baits like fresh squid or pipis will put you in for the best chance at success. Bit of burley goes a long way, too, and doesn’t have to be fancy, just as simple as cut pilchards in a cage on the bottom would be perfect.
St Leonards through to Queenscliff is still fishing very well for calamari and whiting. The whiting are fishing the best up towards St Leonards and the calamari are a little more spread out. Swan Bay and the Queenscliff bight are both proving to be great locations with numbers of squid coming through. Although not massive in size they sure make up for it in numbers, there just seems to be heaps on the go at the moment there.
Offshore fishing this week has been quite productive to those out chasing a snapper with some solid numbers out there along the 50 metre line. Either drifting or on anchor have both been producing fish to 4kg.
Also a great chance at a gummy shark at the moment with plenty being reported whilst chasing the snapper.
The Barwon Estuary is still offering some quality all round fishing as of late with silver trevally, salmon, estuary perch and tailor all cruising about. Soft plastics have been working best when chasing them, in particular small paddle tail or curl tail profiles.
The Barwon River has had some good carp reports this week with the extra rain with some nice fish being pulled from the local drain areas. Light running sinker rigs with corn kernels for bait are working a treat.
