Big bream have been in hot form down at Lakers Cutting this week with anglers landing some fantastic fish from the shore.
Fish to over 45cm have been taken and in pretty good numbers.
Berkley Powerbait Nemisis 3inch in camo and cappuccino have proved to be lethal at the moment and Berkley 50mm Shimma Shrimps have also been working well.
To give anglers the extra edge rubbing gulp scent on lures has been helping get those extra bites. If lures aren’t your thing then using unweighted live scrub worms or freshwater yabbies are insane baits to run – bream can’t resist.
Inside the bay the snapper reports are still coming through with the season starting to really take form with anglers landing some cracking fish.
The outer harbour towards Portarlington has definitely been one of the major hot spots as well as the bend of the channel out front of Clifton Springs.
Fishing on a tide change has been proving the point of difference with most reports of captures coming an hour or so either side of the tide change. Pilchards, squid and silver whiting have all been productive baits.
Clifton Springs right through to Queenscliff has still been fishing very well for calamari with reports coming in nearly daily with boats and anglers having great success.
Clifton Springs seems to be much more consistent whereas Queenscliff seems to have the big ones so take your pick to what you would rather target. Majorcraft Jigs have been a hot favourite this past week with purple coloured jigs working very well.
The bottom fish offshore Barwon Heads is showing no sign of slowing down wht anglers managing to find a small window in the weather have been heading out and getting stuck into gummy sharks to over 15kg and snapper to 6kg. Either on anchor or drifting the 60 metre line has been very productive.
Portland has had a hot little barrel tuna bite down there over the past week with reports of fish to over 100kg being taken on skirted lures just off Cape Nelson.
The weather over the weekend doesn’t look to great but if it clears up next week it is definitely worth the drive down if you’re itching to get one more run before the season’s end.
