Fishing Victoria Forum

mazman wrote: What sort of distances get covered on the kingy trips down there? From what i understand they are usually found pretty close to shore around portland, I'm just wondering roughly how many ks you guys cover looking for them. Not sure if i'm in for the comp weekend but certainly interested in a few offshore forays this summer.

Cheers Alex

your right however pelagic fish don't always play how you think - last season Mav caught a small king about 5 km out from the launch and really not must else happened the next day LOBO pulled both Tuna and kings ( the bastard ) after we had gone home to work

and around the same time Lobo pulled a couple of kings right inside on the squid grounds so you never know

one thing about this launch theres no surf to contend with and it's a lot warmer than chasing tuna over the cooler months

mazman wrote:Good to see you catching squid again Ian.

cheaterparts wrote:

4liters wrote:
I'd like to go on the Portland trip, my paddle fitness needs A LOT of work though

day light saving next week so you know what to do -- paddle - paddle - paddle --- you can only get match fitness one way

I must say it was good fishing there last year even though I didn't get amongst the fish - you got good salmon from memory

What sort of distances get covered on the kingy trips down there? From what i understand they are usually found pretty close to shore around portland, I'm just wondering roughly how many ks you guys cover looking for them. Not sure if i'm in for the comp weekend but certainly interested in a few offshore forays this summer.

Cheers Alex

I did about 18km looking for the little ***** last time, a few blokes did even more. I imagine if they're up and about you wouldn't need to paddle as far to find them

4liters wrote: I did about 18km looking for the little ***** last time, a few blokes did even more. I imagine if they're up and about you wouldn't need to paddle as far to find them

I guessing you would be right but then thats no more than some fishing trips on the bay

most of the time you troll something if live bait that's a leisurely paddle HBs or SPs a bit more active or take a micro jigging rod and bounce some jigs for a rest break

Good stuff. I saw you pulling out of the Woolamai Road as I came back from Berry Beach - I waved, but you looked like you were concentrating on the traffic!

Cheers,

Mike.