Some testing weather is making it difficult to get out for a fish over this past week but anglers sneaking out in small weather windows and having a shot are being rewarded.
The outer harbour has plenty on the go as far as variety of species is concerned with King George whiting starting to come back on the radar.
They aren’t exactly going crazy like some anglers have been reporting. The fishing being relatively slow with smallish fish and other reports of good numbers. It’s just a matter of getting out there and having a crack.
Curlewis through to Portarlington has plenty of good ground well worth having a go around.
Australian salmon have been spontaneously busting up on baitfish around the outer harbour also feeding on small baitfish so having a light rod rigged with a plastic or metal is very handy.
Snapper have remained consistent this past week with most reports seeming to come from anglers casting soft plastics. Structures and reefs have been holding plenty of nice fish, Alcoa pier is a great spot for this sort of fishing. Casting around 3 to 5 inch plastics have been successful.
Also expect to pick up plenty of other species such as salmon, flathead, whiting, snook and maybe even a cheeky kingfish on a hot day off Alcoa.
Bait fishermen have been picking up seemingly a few less fish but the quality is far better. Stefan Uzur from Trellys Geelong fishing alongside Aleks Vasic landed a solid fish coming in at 88cm weighing a healthy 7kg on the dot. The fish was taken on a Supa Pilchard.
Around the corner of the Bellarine Peninsula towards St Leonards and Queenscliff has seen the whiting and squid really turn on the chew with anglers getting stuck into plenty of both species and of course Gone Fishing Charters getting right into the thick of it.
Offshore Barwon Heads has also had some great fishing on offer with snapper in great numbers along the 50 metre line with a few gummy sharks thrown into the mix. Drifting along with paternoster rigs baited with squid, salmon or salmon has been working well.
It’s coming into summer so don’t be too surprised to find a kingy out there whilst chasing snapper and it also pays to have stick bait or jig rigged up at all times cause you just don’t know what could happen out there this time of year.
