Monster of the Murray
river where it wasted no time in swimming back into the depths. The lure used was a 140mm JD Eddy Python.
Trevor Holmes of Victorian Inland Charters, along with Russell Moss and Rod Rees, took a fish each — two brown trout and a rainbow — from Lake Toolondo last week. Once again the Fish Arrow soft plastic smeared with Dizzy Scent did the job.
Daniel Abbott of Werribee reports on a successful trip to the Gellibrand River near Gellibrand in the Western District.
Here, fishing into the night, he and several other members of the Werribee and District Angling Club, including Dave Smith, Dean Rundle and Sharon Vawser, took good-sized native blackfish using small freshwater yabbies for bait.
Sharon caught the biggest that weighed 1.4kg gilled and gutted. Mike Windsor of Clifton Springs Boat Hire reports that whiting have been on the go and among those to do well were Mick Nocera, who caught 13 to 42cm and several flathead out near the mussel farm.
Fishing in front of the Clifton Springs Golf Course from daybreak, Paul Welsh and a companion caught 30 goodsized whiting using squid and mussel for bait. Phil Craven picked up a mixed bag of whiting and flathead less than a kilometre out from the boat ramp.
Heading out in marginal weather at the weekend, Andrew Johnson anchored up in 5.5m off Leopold, where he picked up 14 whiting to 38cm on pipis and squid.
Fielding a telephone call from friend Dennis O’Brien as he was about to pack up, he passed on the location, from where Dennis and his friend Josh Rushton returned with bag-limit catches later that day.
Rod Ludlow of Beachlea Boat Hire reports that when the unseasonal weather allows, there are squid to be caught with some anglers bagging out within the hour. The best time is in the mornings, Rod said, with some larger specimens around the kilogram mark. With several inquiries about the size of the whiting being taken down Portland way at present, I asked Bob McPherson for some data, which was supplied from his and Lockie Wombwell’s weekend catch from 11.5 to 13.5m of water off the abalone farm.
Turns out there wasn’t much under 42cm, with several of their bigger fish stretching the tape out to 52cm.
The productive baits were pipis from nearby Nobles Rocks and cuttlefish. George asks: Geoff, while fishing the Point Lonsdale Pier recently, along with many other folk, I came across an interesting sign at the end of the pier. Is it a joke?
George, thanks for the photo of the sign, which attempts to describe the marine park boundary around the pier but is inaccurate because it represents the pier as being uniformly rectangular or oblong in shape, which of course it is not.
The pier is some three metres wide at the base and 11.5m at the end.
For that reason the alleged MNP boundary could not remain at a constant distance of 50m from the pier and — in addition to that — is clearly wrong in respect of simple mathematical extrapolation to the boundary junctions, which are some 40 per cent further out again.