Fishing Victoria Forum

Thanks re-tyred for the info. Got to Metung last night, fishing has been really slow - all my usual spots aren't firing but have only fished land based with the kids. Might try a few flathead haunts in the kayak in the morning but I'm not too confident!

Hi I fish Metung a few times a year with my 4 and 8 year old, I've found the Boardwalk at Chinamans Creek end easy to fish and usually productive. Use pealed local prawn and you only want to cast 10-15m fishing the water where it drops off. If you fish with a couple rods cast one long and one short ...

I'm with Broomstick here, I fish the 90 mile and longer rods are a definite advantage once you put the rod in the rod holder.

From memory around 600l/s of 54degC water is still diverted to the pondage to dewater the mine, however it will be a fair bit cooler by the time it gets there.

Kimtown wrote:
it already had yellow belly in it

Wasn't aware of yellow belly but some cracking bass have been pulled out.

Traralgon store has Amart signs on it, I think a sports store?

There were a couple of posts on facebook today about them being around the footbridge.

When I moved from Adelaide to Melbourne in the early 90's I didn't know anyone who used tubies and never saw them in a tackle shop which I was amazed. Tubeworms were and probably still are the go to bait for Adelaide metro fishing, and they were pumped locally on the northern beaches and sold live r...

Well worth it in my opinion, your going to fish where 10 pounders are pretty common and not the exception!