With the weather on the improve and the water temperatures rising the fishing improvement is really starting to show across the region.
The bay has been a popular location this past week with reports of pinky snapper starting to be more active across the bay with the inner harbour being an popular area as of late.
This is common as the ‘resident’ fish that have held in the bay during winter are starting to fire up and get ready to go on a feeding frenzy.
The outer harbour should start to see better reports roll through over the coming weeks with snapper.
The bend of the channel is a great spot to fish all season and is commonly a great early season spot. The 9ft bank has also had reports of fish holding in good numbers but doesn’t seem to be many being caught, again when the water warms up these fish should fire.
Clifton Springs was a hotspot this week with the calamari seeming to show up in big numbers from the boat ramp right through to Portarlington.
With the water being crystal clear the squid have been well on the chew, bright coloured jigs have been working fantastic as of late and in particular something with a rattle or the flash boost mirror by Shimano.
Queenscliff remains the big squid capital this week and will most likely be the case for the rest of the year as those big spawning calamari show up and hold in great numbers.
The deep water has been holding the most action over the past week with anglers drifting with drop shot rigs have been doing some serious damage.
Size 3.5 and 4.0 jigs are a must when fishing here.
The talk of the town this week is the barrel tuna out the front of Barwon Heads, they have rocked up in massive numbers and with the weather being as good as it is right now we have been receiving reports daily with fish to over 100kg being landed.
Trolling skirted lures between 8-10 inches has been lethal in landing fish.
