Fishing Victoria Forum

Quote from earlier link: "Being soft fleshed and having soft mouths, small hooks are required and drag sets should be minimal, but they can also go like freight trains when hooked." I didn't pay attention to the "softness" of the mouth, and i am not sure what they class as a small hook, but i caugh...

It does indeed look like Seriolina nigrofasciata - Black banded trevally or Blackbanded amberjack Congratulations, rare catch. Sounds like it went hard, like all the Seriolina/ Seriola's do I tried to work it out last night using the "My Fishing Mate" app and the closest match i could find was the ...

Caught this guy last night from a Kayak out in the wooden pilons at the end of Princes Pier. It was about 35-40cm long and put up an epic fight for the size - i genuinely thought it was a good size snapper it pulled so hard. I asked around to a few other folks in boats and nobody had any idea, so i ...

Ps . Next time take a softplastic outfit with you as well and have a crack. Its great fun. Cheers I actually generally start off with 1 rod flicking a softplastic and one soaking a bait, then switch to what ever is working. Have had 0 luck on the snapper with plastics this season, however i did get...

I do too ,old and lazy! LOL! The yaks have their pros and cons; cheap, easily stored and transported and next to no maintenance. On the down side, i have limited range and they dont handle bad weather too well. Sadly its one of the only forms of exercise i get so overall it works for me in PPB :thu...

Hey guys - first post here and wanted to share the results of last weekend. I headed down to Rickett's Point last Saturday evening to drop the Kayak in and hopefully hook up. Got onto the water around 4:30pm and it was dead calm - awesome! After sounding around i dropped anchor trying to find some R...