The bay has seemed a little quiet this past week with reports being very hit and miss but Australian salmon remained pretty consistent with plenty of spotfire bust ups across Clifton Springs with birds diving and fishing splashing around.
When they are like this they will practically eat anything you throw in the water but ideally a 3-inch minnow profile soft plastic or metal lure.
Around St Leonards has seen some great whiting fishing this past week with anglers having great success landing bag limit captures with fish to 43cm on offer.
Fishing the tides with fresh or frozen squid is ideal. Burley definitely helps and if you sit a bigger bait behind the boat you can expect some solid flathead to pick it up.
The offshore barrel bite is still going pretty good with reports still rolling through but due to poor weather it has made it a little difficult to get out. Keen anglers have been finding small gaps in the weather and have been getting amongst the action with still plenty of fish to well over 100kg on offer.
Reece and Steve got out for a crack and after unfortunately losing one early in the morning they were rewarded for their efforts landing one that came in at 110kg cleaned.
The Barwon River remained a very popular location for anglers this week with the trevally still going nuts. Soft plastics are working very well for them at the moment with small curl and paddle tails doing the damage. Plenty of scent has been helping a lot, too.
There has also been a ton of salmon in the system, most of them are just around that legal size mark although Michael Stavropoulos landed one that went 63cm which is a monster for this system.
Wurdibuloc has been a popular location again with redfin on fire.
The rockwall has been fishing very well for anglers throwing soft plastics and spoon type lures with fish to over 40cm on offer. Anglers have also been picking up some nice numbers of trout.
