Snapper hope rewarded
CORIO BAY/BELLARINE PENINSULA
WITH disagreeable weather for most of the week, there was certainly plenty of elbow room on both Corio Bay’s inner and outer harbours.
So, with snapper on their mind, Derrick Hargreaves and Ben Davis soaked a few pilchards out towards Point Henry, where there was some shelter. Anchoring just south of the Hopetoun Channel proved fairly comfortable, and produced a couple of nice snapper around the 5kg mark as well.
Rod Ludlow, of Beachlea Boat Hire, had a lean week with all the easterly winds we’ve been having of late, but on Sunday afternoon, the wind dropped and the punters lined up.
Not in vain either for whiting were on offer with some good ones to 40cm – mainly from the Governor Reef area – among them.
Rod said squid were harder to find, but those prepared to cover a bit of ground brought in some nice catches, while flathead again proved the main chance with good numbers being taken on the drift out wide.
OFFSHORE
A DECKHAND on Rod Lawn’s charter boat Adamas, Simon Werner reports there are snapper aplenty off
Ocean Grove.
Fishing at anchor in 40m of water, their clients had no difficulty taking fish to 5kg on Sunday. Mind you, it wasn’t a day for small boats, said Simon.
OFF THE BEACH
WITH the extra low evening tides early last week, Tony Ingram and Col Simmons fished RAAF’s beach at Ocean Grove where they caught several good-size pinkie snapper.
And, after dark, as the tide began coming in, they were hoping for a gummy shark or two. But after being bitten off a couple of times, the sharks that had moved in were obviously of the toothy variety.
QUEENSCLIFF
DARCY Scott, along with his young fella Alfie and friend Trent Budinski, headed to Queenscliff on Sunday in search of squid
Arriving at the ramp around 12.30pm, they were back an hour or so later after an extremely hot session on the squid, taking 30 beauties from the Lonsdale Bight, the biggest weighing 2kg.
FRESHWATER
MICHAEL Evans, of Victorian Inland Charters, had little difficulty finding good fishing for his clients on Camperdown’s Lake Purrumbete last week, among them Ken Carmen who was after redfin. They found a good patch in 10m of water pretty well straight away and hit them with soft plastics that they took without hesitation. They also caught some on live minnow.
Michael spent quite a bit of time himself in pursuit of the trout, both browns and rainbows, that this water is noted for. And, he caught both; a 48cm brown trout weighing 1.3kg and a 60cm, 2kg, buck rainbow. Both were caught on mudeyes suspended from floats.
Steve O’Keefe headed up Deniliquin way, prospecting for cod on the Edwards River.
As luck would have it, the cod were plentiful but mainly small. However, his biggest fish measured 75cm.
Kevin Wild, of the Maryborough Angling Club, reports that club members have been doing well on redfin from nearby Tullaroop Reservoir of late. Biggest to date measured 49.5cm and was taken by Stephen Eales.
Kevin, wife Amber, and a handful other club members journeyed to Yarrawonga on Lake Mulwala where chicken proved the most effective bait, with Don Rayner taking the biggest Murray cod at 72cm.