Wild weather is certainly not making it easy to get out into the action but it has put some fish in particular areas into a bit of a feeding frenzy!
The Geelong waterfront is a fantastic location to go and have a suss around as strong winds stir all the food up and get the resident fish going crazy.
Pinky snapper respond best when this happens and you will quite often catch fish to 40cm off many of the land-based structures in and around the Geelong Waterfront. Other species you can expect to encounter include salmon, flathead and trevally.
Gars have also remained well on the chew inside the bay this past week, with the northern structures of the bay producing the best results.
Offshore Barwon Heads is still attracting a lot of attention from game anglers this week and for good reason, as the barrel tuna are fishing very well. The fish seem to be spread out just about everywhere, from the back of the rip all the way out to 70m right through to Torquay in 20m.
The tuna seem to be mainly chewing on whitebait, which can make them tricky to catch, but at times anglers are finding them feeding on yakkas and when they are the chances more often than not skyrocket! 8-10 inch skirted lures have been the main lures getting the bites, with anglers starting to throw some topwater lures too.
With these strong north winds, plenty of keen fishos have been hitting the surf beaches and rock platforms across the surf coast with most of them providing some great Australian salmon fishing.
The further west you head, the more the fish and numbers seem to improve. Metal lures ranging between 20-60 grams are working best and bait fishos are picking fish up also.
Wurdi Buloc has been fishing well this past week. With lots of reports of brown trout on the chew off the rock walls, anglers are finding fish to over 4lb. Shallow diving jerkbaits and soft plastics have been lethal on the resident fish lately and also picking up plenty of redfin too.
