The talk of the town this week is still all about the yellowtail kingfish around the Geelong waterfront with anglers flocking down with hope to tangle with one.
Although we haven’t heard of any being caught this past week that’s not to say there hasn’t been any caught by someone wanting to keep it on the hush. There are still reports of anglers sighting them almost daily.
Some of the best tactics would be to cast white soft plastics like or small poppers and stickbaits and another lethal tactic would be to run unweighted fresh squid strips as kings usually can’t resist.
Anglers are picking up small Australian salmon and pinky snapper between chances at the kings.
The outer Harbour has produced a mixed bag at the moment with anglers anchoring up with a solid burley trail picking up snapper, flathead, salmon, whiting, trevally, snook, garfish and gummy sharks all in the same spot.
The spoil grounds around Leopold and Clifton Springs have been two hot locations for this with baits such as pilchards, squid and pipis doing the damage. It’s also well worth throwing around some soft plastics as most of these species will scoff them down, too.
Offshore Barwon Heads is still producing some fantastic tuna fishing over this past week with better weather allowing anglers to get out there and get amongst the action.
The fish are spread right across the coastline, this won’t really pin them down too much but they are mainly holding between the rip to Torquay in 25 to 50 metres of water.
Anglers trolling skirted lures with a spreader bar are picking up plenty of fish as well as hardbody divers.
As the day goes on the fish are often seen on the surface and anglers with stickbaits and poppers are picking up plenty. Although they are very hard to tempt with lots of casts and persistence the bites will come.
Gummy sharks have also been in fantastic numbers along the 30 metre line across the whole coast too.
I got stuck into the action over the weekend landing numerous gummies to 15kg.
The Barwon River continued to fish really well this week with a variety of species on the go. Again redfin, carp, eps, bass and yellowbelly all on the chew.
The ever famous TT Jig spinners rigged on a 3-4 inch soft plastic with a paddle tail is by far the standout lure of choice. Fyansford has been a very popular location for all species.
