The snapper are dominating this week with fish being reported from all over the bay with the average size and numbers only seeming to get better and better.
The outer harbour continues to offer some great fishing along the channel, in particular the bend.
This spot each season is a consistent winner and is proving to be again.
The old channel off Portarlington has also been holding some nice fish and if you’re after numbers and not necessarily bigger fish then the spoil grounds are a great area to have a crack and throw around some soft plastics.
Fish averaging the 1kg have been out in force here lately and again should only get better as the water temperature continues to increase.
Inside Corio Bay has also been fishing quite well for both shore and boat based anglers with small pinky snapper, salmon and flathead all on the chew. These can be targeted with both soft plastics and bait such as pilchards and squid strips.
Queenscliff is still offering some fantastic squid fishing at the moment with bag limit captures of big calamari still on the go.
Fishing the bight has been fantastic either with big artificial jigs or real baits on a spike. High tide slack is the best time to fish it as it will offer the cleanest water which plays a huge factor when targeting them in this area.
Offshore the snapper and gummy shark fishing is still going red hot with lots of reports still coming through with anglers having some great success drifting along the 50 metre line. Paternoster rigs with baits like squid, pilchards, whiting and salmon are all working very well at the moment.
As for the gummy sharks you will still pick them up the same way as the snapper but putting down a bigger chunk bait like a chunk of salmon, trevally, wrasse, snook or just about anything should result in some good success.
