The local fishing this past week has been much the same as recent weeks – fantastic!
Squid, whiting, salmon and snapper all showing up in great numbers with some quality fish being caught.
North Shore still remains the current hot spot for snapper at the moment, with some quality fish to 5kg being caught.
Anglers fishing bait with pilchards and squid have been having the best success, however lures have been accounting for their fair share also.
Brad Apps put this to test at the weekend casting soft plastics in hope for a few snapper and was not disappointed.
Fishing hard on structure, Brad managed to reef out some quality pinkies to 50cm, along with plenty of smaller ones and as many salmon as you wanted to catch.
The Geelong waterfront is still holding its share of pinkies sitting on the structure but the attention has definitely shifted to North Shore.
St Leonards is still providing boats with good hauls of King George whiting.
Pipis and mussels have been the two favourite baits, with fresh squid still remaining a hot favourite. Keeping active and moving around has been crucial to finding the large schools and it’s very simple. If you don’t get a bite in 10 minutes make a move.
Queenscliff harbour has had some nice fishing on offer with silver trevally and salmon showing up in good numbers to both boat and land-based fishos. Fishing the incoming tide and ideally on slack has been the prime time to fish for them with both lures and bait account for plenty of fish.
There has been a few whispers of the snapper starting to come onto the chew and as the weather gets warmer we should start to see them really improve.
The calamari fishing in the Queenscliff bight has been red hot this week with once again some fantastic reports rolling in of some massive calamari.
Fishing the slack tide is hands down the best time to fish and allows you to fish your jigs perfectly and not drift too fast off the mark where the squid are holding.
