Sophia scores big squid
ment because the fish there, though numerous, were small.
Moving further south, they anchored up in 4.5 metres of water in front of St Leonards Yacht Club where they picked up several bigger fish, all either just on or slightly over the 40cm mark.
In fact they caught nine of these beauties before the wind came up from the south, creating an impossible windagainst-tide situation from which they really had no option but to retreat.
Kevin Wild of the Maryborough Angling Club reports that he and wife Amber have had no trouble picking up golden perch (yellowbelly) from Cairn Curran reservoir using worms for bait, but they’ve been a bit on the small side with a good many under the legal size of 30cm.
Kevin also mentions that club members Greg Streets and Leone Jones made the journey to Green Lake near Horsham where they had no trouble taking respectable catches of redfin, both on bait and on lures.
John Clements of Lake Purrumbete Holiday Park reports that fishing has been slow, nevertheless, several brown trout to just on 3kg were taken by Chris Farrugia of Oaklands Junction and Mike Georgiou of Melbourne, both of whom were fishing with mudeyes under floats.
Others to be successful include Matt and David Ford from South Australia, who caught several chinook salmon around the 1.5kg mark on fillets of pilchards suspended just above the bottom.
Geoff, I’ve fished for luderick in NSW and I would continue doing so, but nobody I’ve spoken to fishes for luderick around Geelong. Can you catch them here?
Patricia, I’ve caught luderick from the Sheepwash in the Barwon estuary over a good many years, mainly in the winter, and you would probably catch them now seeing the river has cleaned up after the recent fresh. Those that I caught, all bar one, were taken from a dinghy between Sheepwash Road and the Sheepwash boat ramp.
Most were a kilogram or better and were taken either on fresh abalone gut or live sandworm fished on the bottom. While I do understand that luderick are traditionally caught on green weed suspended beneath pre-weighted floats, those baits worked for me. The best times to catch luderick were either side of a tide change, the high tide change in particular, especially as the current begins running off in the late afternoon.