Fishing Victoria Forum

Thought the thread needed an update so flew back from UK early- 4 flights ( missed a connection in Singapore and got rerouted to Sydney then Melbourne - just what I needed after 2 flights already and a 12 hr leg), 38 hrs door to door and only 3 PCR tests needed and voila I was back on home turf. Lef...

Flatty tails and chips cooked by my granddaughter Phoebe. We might not send her home at the end of the holiday. Catches them and cooks them.

School whiting try spot in screen shot. Very small hook tiny piece of squid. I use a sabiki rig . Just bait the bottom 2 hooks. These sabikis work the best. I cut them in half and make 2 rigs. Use them for KGWs too

I have a mate up the road a bit,who is a keen Fisher but hasn't every chased or caught a whiting in the lakes. Asked him last night if he wanted to come out today. So he did. Picked him up at 7-30am ,we were fishing just after 8am. By 5 past he had his first KGW. It was a bit slow for a start. A sma...

Here you go.
Left is the 'normal' paternoster and the right is the 'extended'.
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Being a rather ' Fair ' minded individual and being very aware of the 'Fair Go' and Fair Dinkum' uniquely Ozzy colloquialisms, I thought it Fair time to update the KGW thread. So with all that in mind I thought it Fair enough to drop my wife off at work on Saturday & for that matter Sunday and head ...

Offsiders Bro over from the motherland so a menage a trois it was for todays exploits afloat. Though he was not a first time visitor to these shores, I was keen to make his visit as memorable/ Ozzy as possible, so the day started with a pit stop by yours truly at the Stratford bakery (en route to th...

Went to the stockyards today with a cpl of mates. Stockyards is about 20nm to the west of lakes. We started the day in close at the back of the surf. 4 MTRS. Drifted out on the light northerly breeze. At 8 MTRS the rod bent and off the line went doing the typical circle work of a gummy. The other gu...

For those looking for stockyards it's out from loch sport .The s loch sport is stock yard hill

Gippsland Lakes has had algae problems, so I haven't been lake fishing. The weather for offshore has been garbage. So I haven't been fishing the last few weeks . The Algae is now pretty much gone, except there is still a ban on shellfish. I am currently in Melbourne as our daughter is booked into Pe...