Tony Ingram with a school shark he caught offshore from Barwon Heads last week (Picture: Col Simmons).
Offshore
With a break in the weather last week, Tony Ingram and Col Simmons headed out of Barwon Heads in the afternoon, hopeful of catching a gummy shark or two.
But those they caught, although of legal size, were a bit on the small side. However, they were bitten off a couple of times, which had them searching their tackle boxes for wire traces.
A good move as it turned out for Tony caught a school shark of about 10 kg that revealed no sign of their missing hooks; so, the culprits were still out there.
From the Beach
With numerous heavy ground swells, beach fishing opportunities have been limited of late, but with a favourable forecast for Friday, Ray Millman tried several spots between Eastern View and nearby Spout Creek.
Not even getting even a single strike there, and with the tide falling, Ray decided to try the beach at Moggs Creek.
Here, walking out on the exposed sand shelf, put him within casting range of a promising gutter that yielded a salmon of around 600 grams on his first cast, the start of a promising session with his 42-gram Savage Sea Missile.
Barwon estuary
Following a recent trip to the Sheepwash that yielded an assorted catch including several decent size silver trevally, Jason Treloar and Harley Griffiths tried their luck here once more.
But this time, acting on the advice of a pair of anglers who’d caught some decent size bream not far where they’d been fishing that evening, they’d gathered a quantity of sandworms – again as advised – used them only throughout the high tide change and start of the ebb.
An effective strategy, as it turned out, that produced not only a couple of nice bream, but – surprise of surprises – a couple of luderick around the kilogram mark that also took a fancy to their sandworms.
Bellarine Peninsula
Confronted with a pod of dolphins at the mouth of Swan Bay, mortal enemies of the squid they were seeking, Andrew Phillips and Tony Greck headed north to St Leonards where they began picking up a few on the drift.
But being in for the long haul, they persisted – and toward nightfall – they hit the motherload with a couple nudging the 2 kg mark.
Victorian Inland Charters clients Jason – now on his annual birthday charter – along with Shane, Sophie, and their Granny, and their impressive catch of redfin from Lake Purrumbete (Picture Victorian Inland Chaters).
Victorian Inland Charters clients Jason – now on his annual birthday charter – along with Shane, Sophie, and their Granny, and their impressive catch of redfin from Lake Purrumbete (Picture Victorian Inland Chaters).
Kevin Wild with a brown trout from Goldfields Reservoir.
Freshwater
Preston/Northcote and Camperdown Angling Clubs fished Lake Bullen Merri in competition on Saturday, and despite the strong northly winds, making the boat ramp all but inoperable, a good many fish were caught, mainly from the bank.
The biggest of possibly 30 fish taken, was a 2.6 kg tiger trout caught by Daniel Trafford’s companion, George of the Preston/Northcote Angling Club.
On Friday afternoon, Victorian Inland Charters skipper Ken Carmen’s clients included Jason – now on his annual birthday charter – along with Shane, Sophie, and their Granny, out on Lake Purrumbete after the redfin.
And Ken was up to the task with his clients catching enough reddies to almost cover the entire fish cleaning table.
John Clements of the Lake Purrumbete Holiday Park and Darryl Hansford, who was down from Romsey, were also onto the redfin, taking another good catch from 9 metres of water using scrubworms and soft plastics.
Kevin Wild of the Maryborough Angling Club reports that the club had an outing on their local Goldfields Reservoir before the club’s AGM on Friday. The fishing was slow, but Kevin caught a brown trout of about 1 kg on his old faithful Wonder Wobbler.
Special presentation at Warneet on September 16 next.
September presentation at Warneet
On September 16, next, the SEATAC (Toorak Angling Club & South Anglers) Club, 21 Balaka Street, Warneet, 3980 (Melway ref: 142 E12), will feature a special presentation from renowned angler Andrew Ketelaar on fishing for gummy shark, mulloway, trout and Australian Bass.
From 5.00 pm. there will be a BBQ laid on along with a raffle with lots of great prizes.
Pedro asks:
Geoff, I am confused over the terms trawling and trolling. Could you explain the difference please?
Pedro, trawling specifically refers to the commercial harvesting of fish by towing of a large sock-like net behind a vessel. The net is fitted with spreading devices on each side to keep its mouth open so that any fish in its path are engulfed: No co-operation from the fish is necessary.
On the other hand, trolling refers to fishing, either commercial or recreational, because it requires a response from the fish to be successful. It refers specifically to the towing of lures, or specially rigged baits, behind a boat with the intention of eliciting strikes from fish.
Please send your reports to geoffw10@optusnet.com.au, on messenger, or by phone, 03 5248 1307.