A TRIPLE TREAT
WARNING ON POINT RICHARDS RAMP
CALLUM Olsen, Joel Trezise and Tim Johnson headed out off Clifton Springs on Wednesday hoping for a snapper or two.
They caught four, of which they kept three from 7 to 9kg, releasing the last fish.
They also caught a gummy shark about 3kg with squid and silver whiting the successful baits.
Naturally, others caught them as well, including Alex Andjelkovic and Greg Chapman whose catch included a 7kg snapper taken off the Mountain View Quarries, using pilchards for bait.
Mark Sesar and wife Tina tried off Point Richards for a snapper without success, but fishing on the drift closer in, they caught a dozen flathead and 10 squid before the wind came up, persuading their return to the boat ramp.
Mark reiterates that the Point Richards Ramp is perpetually covered in kelp and weed, which must be moved to enable boats to launch. And, in addition to that, there is a slippery algael growth on the ramp that makes for poor vehicle traction and is dangerous underfoot.
Lakers Cutting, which is accessible from Fellows and McDonald Roads, Queenscliff, has long been one of our favoured, if not challenging, bream waters. Joel Kettner, of the Leopold Angling Club, was rewarded there over the weekend with two bream of 39 and 43cm, both caught on crab suspended beneath a float.
Freshwater
Fishing St Augustine’s Water Hole in Highton — one of the waters stocked with rainbow trout for the school holidays — were Marcus Pearson and daughter Maria, 8, who caught 10 rainbow trout, releasing all but two.
Fishing Lake Wallace at Edenhope at the weekend were Trevor Holmes, of Victorian Inland Charters, with Peter, Bill and Bob from University of the Third Age, where their biggest problem was small redfin attacking their lures.
Eventually they caught a brown trout of 1.8kg, then — moving from 4.5m of water to about 1½m — they followed that with another four brown trout of similar size.
John Clements, of the Lake Purrumbete Holiday Park, was rewarded for an evening on Purrumbete last week with two brown trout of 3.3kg and 3.85kg — both taken while down-rigging a Rapala bibbed minnow at 9m — while his 8year-old companion from Leopold, Rylan Hogan, caught a 1.5kg chinook salmon.
Others successful on Lake Purrumbete included Chris Farrugia from Oakland’s Junction whose catch included a 2kg chinook salmon, also caught down-rigging, while Terry Lindsay, of Mario’s, caught redfin to 600g using soft plastics.
Others to catch fish on the lake included Chris Farrugia, of Oaklands Junction, whose catch included a chinook salmon of 2kg using the same approach, and Terry Lindsay who caught redfin to 600g on soft plastics.
Kevin Wild reports that the Maryborough Angling Club fished Cairn Curran Reservoir on Sunday for several golden perch to 37cm and several redfin around the 30cm mark. Before that though, club member Trevor Perry caught five golden perch to 37cm from the bank in one outing.
Amos asks:
Geoff, now that snapper now being caught in Port Phillip Bay, long queues are starting to form at most of Melbourne’s boat ramps, especially on weekends. I see from your report there are snapper being caught in Corio Bay. Are there big queues at the boat ramps around Geelong, And, could you give me some GPS marks for Corio Bay?
Amos, I am well aware of the prodigious queues at boat ramps around Melbourne, and how much worse they will become after the football grand final. Clifton Springs is the most popular ramp, which is another 25 minutes or so from Geelong, but it, too, may be crowded over the weekends.
Should you really want to fish in Corio Bay, then the Avalon Boat ramp would be closer. It is rarely crowded and close to productive water between Point Lillias and Point Wilson, but be aware of Bird Rock offshore from Point Lillias, and the aquaculture sites marked with yellow buoys after that, so keep clear of those as well.