Land-based anglers have been getting stuck into some great fishing especially around the Geelong waterfront with pinkie snapper, flathead, salmon and snotty trevalla.
Casting soft plastics around the structure has been holding lots of fish with the standout lures being turtleback worms, 3-4 inch flick bait style lures and paddle tails.
Trellys Geelong’s newest crew member Stefan Uzur has been getting stuck amongst plenty of pinkies fishing the late arvo with soft plastics landing fish to 50cm and unfortunately missing a few much bigger.
Cunningham Pier has been his main spot where he is finding the fish.
Moving to the outer harbour seems to have an abundance of nice eating size flathead with anglers picking them up with both bait and soft plastics.
The spoil grounds have been a productive location to target them as well as on the edge of the mussel farms.
Calamari have been very hot and cold this past week. By that you could be fishing for hours not finding a single squid but when you do they have been holding together in big numbers and some quality size ones amongst them, too.
King George whiting have been yet again this week a hot species to target this week and again with great reports of numbers and size fish available. Anglers fishing the faster water and bigger tides are finding better success with squid working an absolute treat. Quality burley, such as Gotcha Whiting pellets have been helping anglers land more fish.
The west coast has had some very average weather this past week making it hard to get offshore and chase the tuna but some anglers managing to find breaks in weather are getting amongst some great action.
Apollo Bay has been a popular location and in particular Blanket Bay with the school tuna holding in great numbers and eating a whole variety of lures from skirts to divers and topwater lures.
Gone Fishing Charters is still getting amongst some fish down at Portland and also plenty of albacore too which is cool to see. Still some barrels being caught but as mentioned the weather has made it tricky to get out.
