Fishing Victoria Forum

gidday all heading down to johanna with family in a couple of weeks, staying for 5 nights plan on doing some surf fishing and also some freshwater , was thinking of going from great ocean rd bridge aire river , any info would be great cheers john

40 years ago, we used to get crays out of the rock pools

Gra

haven,t really fished for crays before texas ,any suggested methods besides jumping in cheers

squidward wrote:haven,t really fished for crays before texas ,any suggested methods besides jumping in cheers

Landing net, but we got wet.
People used to balloon for sharks there also
Things may have changed, I'm talking about 1974/75

Gra

It's a spectacular beach you'll know what I mean when you get there.

thanks for replys texas and hornet ,looking forward to getting there ,going by the photo it looks to be a fairly deep beach,i might take a drop net and give it a go for the crays as well if thats leagal i,ll have to check cheers

might get onto a white lmao i was reving my freind as he surfs alot up that way
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i cant really give any advice as my family tended to fish aire river an the mouth, as the uncle use to dianamite the mouth open for the farmers 30+ years ago

Good luck mate, it sure is a fairly deep beach I hope the weather is kind to you.

Don't worry about the crays
Just checked guide, closed season for females from 1 June & males 15 September
Sorry to get your hopes up

Cheers Gra

Couple of things.

That beach is beyond Gunnamatta levels of dangerous. Be careful. The undertow is like nothing i've ever experienced. I nearly lost my best friend and his dog there a few years ago.

I've hooked and landed plenty of Salmon on lures there and it's a renowned gummy spot as well. Could probably hook bigger sharks if you can get a solid enough bait out. if you walk all the way to the south end you can climb over the little ridge and have a look at dinosaur cove as well which is just stunning.

The Aire river estuary is a really nice spot to have an explore around, great option if the swell is up. Soft plastics were what I was using.

The Aire river upstream used to be an incredible trout water. It's not as good as it used to be but you'll still pick up some fish from either side of the GoR bridge if you go for a little walk. Blue on gold size 0 spinners were my choice here but pretty much any stream trout tactic will probably work.