The inner harbour has still been offering some great fishing to those casting soft plastics either land based or from boats around the structures.
The waterfront is always a popular area to have a crack and in particular around Wangum Walk. Pinky snapper, Australian salmon, flathead, trevally, snook and more.
The grammar school lagoon has also fished very well this past week with good numbers of pinkies kicking around snatching up soft plastics. Fish to 2kg have been landed here recently and offers great shelter for small boat or kayak fishers.
Alcoa Pier has been fishing very well this past week with large numbers of Australian salmon patrolling the pier. Most fish are around the 30cm mark with still plenty of fish either side of the average.
The best bet to secure some of these guys is small 3” Minnow Profile soft plastics worked fast through the school. Some very impressive snapper are also being caught off the pier at the moment with snapper taking both soft plastics and bait. Fishing an evening or first/last light seems to be when they are biting best.
King George whiting are still going very good off the Curlewis bank and yes this is mentioned pretty much every week, but the fishing is still fantastic. About 4 metres of water seems to be the sweet spot for them at the moment and again, fishing the strong tides is key.
Queenscliff bight has had a great week on the XL calamari with reports starting to roll though to anglers fishing out that way. Casting size 3.5 and 4.0 jigs are the best bet when fishing here.
There are a few other important factors to put into place is ensuring the water clarity is good, ideally small tides and the slack tide is by far the best time to fish. To find the slack tide, go off Williamstown tides to find the slacks.
Offshore snapper have continued to fish well offshore with great reports coming through when the weather permits. Gone Fishing Charters has been right amongst the action as per usual with the crew getting plenty of fish up to 4kg with some pleasant big catches such as tiger flathead, gummy sharks and even the odd thresher shark.
