Fishing Victoria Forum

My understanding is port Phillip and western port are classified as enclosed waters or inshore so you need to be compliant for that. No Epirb or parachute flare required. They are for offshore ie more than 2 nautical miles off the coast. Yes you need smoke flares for daylight and flame flares for ni...

Improved clinch knot has never let me down and it's easy.

Thanks everyone, are schoolies good to eat ? Great catch.......For memory schoolies are great to eat not as strong in taste compared to gummies from my experience, but I haven’t eaten or caught a schoolie in over 18 years. But most sharks are pretty good it’s still flake. Cheers Nice, thanks All wa...

Hi Sam , they definitely look like arches to me. The only thing I would try is reduced sensitivity, The one thing I constantly do is adjust the sensitivity, even a slight change in boat speed when trolling you will see the clutter image change. Personally I prefer to have a small amount of backgroun...

Nice work CarlG,
So ballooning goes ok with dead bait, I like that idea.
Cheers
Jamie

Thanks everyone, are schoolies good to eat ?

Boonanza wrote:Definately looks like a school shark :thumbsup:

Ok thanks Boonanza, now I just need to find the bigger ones, ha ha.
We love eating gummy, are schoolies just the same ?

Not a bad days fishing yota ! I Went out fishing at lakes entrance yesterday just for a feed of flathead ( The kids love em ) only out 3 hours and caught 14 flathead between the two of us that were keepers, lots of small ones were put back and also let a 68cm flathead go as well biggest flathead I’...

Thanks everyone, yes some of the flatty tails was had for dinner last night, beautiful. Flour, salt n pepper, a little oil and butter in the hot pan and cook for 1 - 2 minutes each side. Re the boat washed up on the beach, coastguard mentioned something about it getting lost in the fog that morning....

Great effort and persistence
Nice write up too.

Well done