Fishing Victoria Forum

Hey Everyone, It has been a wild couple of months of lockdown, isolation and finally the excitement of finally getting our lines wet again. St Leonards pier has produced a challenge, the weeks post lockdown many of the usual species disappeared and are only now starting recover to it's regular self....

I think potentially sexual dimorphism is what you're looking for, where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond the differences in their sexual organs. Some species display differences, other do not. Organs are the 100% way of doing it. I'd maybe look for some scie...

What a way to spend an afternoon/evening.
Great mixed bag!

Welcome Ian!

Hey Everyone, The winter chill has set in bringing thumper garfish into our local piers and onto our dinner plates. Through my inexperience with the species, I turned online and to Denis who thankfully shared his experience catching and cleaning garfish. With this new found wisdom I headed out to ca...

I agree with what has already been said, size 2000-2500 should be perfect.

Solid session Seb!
Well done!

I thought I saw the boats moving around quite a bit over the weekend, sounds like they've moved on!

Water has been crystal clear off St Leonards, plenty of gars around.

I'll share my experience as a beginner chasing the gars, caught my first ever garfish on the 17/6/2020, just hit my 50th yesterday. I agree with purple5ive's advice! My go-to burley is bread crumbs, garlic powder and tuna oil, add some water on the pier and make into a crumble and toss out with burl...

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Tue Jun 30, 2020 12:33 pm

You can see them in the burley trail but they won’t bite

I've found twitching the bait a few times and letting it reset is enough to perk their interest, or even putting a new silverfish on.

When the water is a clear as it has been, you can see them swim up to the bait.