Fishing Victoria Forum

Hello FVF, I’m not new to fishing but I am new to Australian fish species. The pandemic canceled my long anticipated visit and kept the girl friend and I separated. It was suppose to be a short visit followed by a longer visit in the future. In the mean time I have been watching a lot of fishing vid...

Welcome to the forum. Sounds like you already done your homework. To me greater Melbourne fishery is mostly salt and estuary. The close by fresh water creeks and rivers contain mostly carp. For the trout and other fresh water species, you gotta drive further inland, vary from 1 hr drive to more tha...

Welcome Mate. Depending on where you plan to take residence will depend on wethere you will be fishing salt water or fresh water systems. Lure fishing is very popular here too, but varies a lot between salt water and fresh water fishing. Blades, vibes, soft plastics, hardbodies all of them work wel...

I've used 14 Foot surf rods off piers before and never had issues with other fishos, depending on what your after and the condition of the location you'll need certain rod lengths to tackle the fish. What I find anoying are those big long squid poles everyone spread out at Queenscliff pier, they ha...

odd bloke 😂 Bit of uniqueness never hurt anyone. Reminds me of Bugatti I think you nailed it, you said what some people got in their head. I wonder how he's doing. The point being (as light heartedly...and oddly... as I could put it) this setup would be made in such a way that I could adapt it to a...

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/BoilingPointlessAmericancicada-size_restricted.gif Pretty much belt/pocket carry this stuff except the rods and net. All freshwater. Rod capacities, lengths and numbers 31" custom (and self assembled) solid glass rod 25" light action Ice rod ( 13 Fishing White Noise series...

Always a great day fishing with the old man... Most hardbodies usually work well here. But I'd say the daiwa double clutch. Atomic shiners, various rapalas in similar shapes would be the best. There's plenty more that work ofcourse. Just depends on personal.preference... Targeting bass (Australian ...

I don't know how similar angling for Australian bass is to Large Mouth bass over here but I thought the forum might appreciate this one. I finally got the father unit out from in front of the TV. He told me in the car he found it amusing that he was the one teaching me how to fish when I was a kid, ...