After receiving a week of great weather we have seen our local waters produce some fantastic fishing with great numbers and quality size fish.
Inside Corio Bay, snapper has come on the chew with some solid reports coming from many different parts of the bay with both bait and soft plastics getting the bites. Casting soft plastics around just about any structure inside the bay has been very effective with fish reaching 3kilograms, as Adrian Feher and Adam Van Der Lugt from Trellys found out on Sunday.
Adrian and Adam were casting soft plastics around the many structures of the Geelong waterfront were the boys found pinkie snapper in plague proportions with the biggest reaching 3kg, Zman slim swimz in 2.5” were dynamite.
Bait fishing has been producing some cracking fish too and they have been at a much better average size with the potential of a monster, fishing at night with a tide change has been producing the better results.
The Bellarine Peninsula has still remained a popular location for anglers in hope to find a feed of fish with squid and whiting being the number target for most boats. Whiting are still biting well out from Queenscliff on the tide change with some quality fish getting around, it has been tough work finding them in big numbers however with regular re-positioning will assist in finding where they are sitting. The squid fishing along the peninsula has been on the improve, although they aren’t in fantastic numbers yet they are making up for it in size. The Queenscliff cut has been fishing well for anglers casting soft plastics into the channel there, the high tide slack is the ideal time to be fishing there with silver trevally, salmon and pinkie snapper all in good numbers.
Offshore Barwon Heads has had some great bottom fishing on offer this past week with boats finding feeds of snapper, gummy sharks, nannygai flathead and cuttlefish. Fishing in a bit closer on the 30 metre mark has been holding plenty of nice size flathead and pinkie snapper with bait fishing proving deadly with flathead reaching over 50cm in length, gummy sharks have been a bit tricky to find but they are definitely still out there with some boats finding them to over 10kg. Nannygai and Snapper have been holding well out in 50m of water, once again bait fishing being the most effective however slow pitch jigging has been getting its fair share of fish too.
