Kevin Wild and Amber Stone with one of the Murray Cod they caught from Lake Mulwala on Saturday.
Freshwater
Kevin Wild of Maryborough, and his partner Amber Stone, made yet another trip to Lake Mulwala, where – fishing in the vicinity of Yarrawonga – they caught about 30 Murray Cod, all of which were released, approximately half being of legal size; the biggest measured 66 cm and all were caught on chicken.
On Saturday, Justin Burns commenced fishing just upstream from the Moorabool Street Bridge at around 10 am, hoping to catch a carp or two: He caught four as it turned out, all in less than three hours using corn kernels for bait; the biggest was about 4.5 kg.
Fishing Lake Bolac along the Glenelg Highway recently, Ben Dallimore and Jason Treloar caught several rainbow trout to 2 kg or from the rocks near the boat ramp using Berkley Powerbait.
Fishing the north end of Lake Bolac on Saturday were Trevor Holmes of Victorian Fishing Charters, Ben Young and Alan Greig. However, it was Alan who scooped the pool with three rainbow trout to just over 2 kg, all being caught on Berkley Powerbait.
After we expressed the dangers of launching boats at Lake Elingamite near Cobden, Michael Reichler tried his luck there with a small dinghy last week, but was soon dissuaded:
First, by the fact that he was able to bury the length of PVC tube he brought with him to a depth of 12 feet (3.65 metres) into the mud at the end of the ramp – something indicating a potentially lethal trap for anyone venturing here – and second, by a local farmer who’d recently towed approximately 30 boat trailers up and over the rear of the ramp with a tractor, naturally with ensuing damage to the trailers.
However, Michael was able to provide a fishing report from Lake Tooliorook – which is along the Hamilton Highway near Lismore – where his friends Ned Evans and Luke Bisinella spent a highly productive time fishing from the jetty there.
Using Berkley Powerbait, they caught six female rainbow trout, all around the 2 kg mark, and one male rainbow trout of 2.5 kg.
Alan Grieg with two of the rainbow trout he caught from Lake Bolac on Saturday (Picture: Victorian Inland Charters).
Corio Bay
On Friday, Andrew Johnson and Dennis O’Brien anchored up in 6.7 metres over one their usually productive marks for whiting off Leopold.
They were in business right away, but on small, legal-size fish that they returned. However, an occasional much larger fish peaked their interest so they stayed on. A good move as it turned out for more bigger fish were on the way, and – among their respective bag limit catches of keepers – were six fish, each measuring 42 cm.
Michael Goldby with a sample of the blue-eye trevalla that he, Lachie Wombell and Bob McPherson caught on Saturday (Picture: Bob McPherson).
Portland
Bob McPherson of Portland reports that he, Michael Goldby and Lachie Wombell took advantage of a recent break in the weather and headed out into almost 500 metres of water where they caught a number of blue eye trevalla and a hefty school shark.
Lachie Wombell with the hefty school shark he caught offshore from Portland on Saturday (Picture: Bob McPherson).
Glenelg River
As I’ve mentioned before Matt Cini of Reel Time Charters, has caught – and continues to catch – mulloway from the Glenelg River estuary, and as recently as last week, he caught several. Respectable fish certainly, but not as big as the 26.5 kg specimen that Ron Fox caught on Saturday evening; the second big mulloway to be caught from here recently.
Ron Fox with the 26.5 kg mulloway he caught from the Glenelg River in Western Victoria on Saturday evening (Picture: Courtesy of Spot On Fishing Tackle, Mount Gambier).
Ollie asks
You mentioned using beachworms for bait in your Q & A last week. I recently saw a YouTube clip on catching beachworms by dragging a baited stocking around in the shore break, then extracting any worms that pop their heads up with a pair of pliers. Can you catch beach worms like that locally?
Ollie, I know of the technique and have seen folk doing it in NSW. However, I’ve not seen anyone doing it in Victoria and I don’t believe that – although I am more than willing to be proven wrong – we have those large carnivorous beachworms locally.
I’ve gathered beachworms locally with a yabby pump at low tide, their residence being betrayed by a squiggle on the sand resembling a piece of spaghetti. You need to cover that squiggle with the mouth of your pump and pull up the plunger, while – at the same time – trying avoid driving the pump down into the harder sand, which usually cuts the worm in two; something that happens all too often