With many young anglers already finished for the year with school we have seen lots of our local land-based fishing locations producing some good fishing.
The Geelong waterfront has offered some great species including pinkie snapper, King George whiting, flathead and salmon.
Most anglers are finding their best success throwing soft plastics around but there is still a large percentage of fish being caught on bait.
Salted pilchard and squid are two fantastic baits to run when fishing here.
The outer harbour has continued to hold some good fishing for those chasing snapper. Reports have slowed down a little bit but this could be due to weather and not heaps of boats out on the water chasing them.
The anglers that have been getting out have been reporting with good captures. Bait fishing has been most popular with lots of fish being caught by throwing soft plastics around.
Queenscliff has offered some hot fishing this past week with huge numbers of calamari. Although they aren’t huge in size they are in ridiculous numbers. Just off Bell Reef and the football oval has been a great area for them with depths anywhere between 3 to 10 metres. They seem to be everywhere but finding good water clarity is key, ideally the high tide slack.
Offshore has been fishing very well for snapper and is showing no sign of slowing down. The 50 metre line continues to produce some good fishing with snapper to 3kg in great numbers with plenty of fish up to 6kg being caught also.
Gummy sharks remain a common catch with a few more kingfish starting to pop up. It’s well worth heading out with some pelagic gear as the kings are obviously around and the tuna should rock up just about any day.
