Fishing Victoria Forum

Launched from Altona Friday 7th on sunlight, had planned to try get a bag if Squid despite the merky water and realised that I forgot the box of squid jigs at home.. so went down towards point cook and tried a few drifts hoping for some 2.8 meter flatties and she was on! Bite after bite flatties aft...

I fished willi and docklands from a mates boat last week for a few fish and a great day on the water. Spot locking around the rock walls and docks we ended up with a nice flattie, a few small pinkies and a couple of bream in the mid 30s on plastics. Mainly using zman creature style plastics on light...

Winter on the pinkies. Running sinker 3/0 hook. Anchor up and fish with a slack line. a very flexible rod helps keep the fish on. Let the fish take it and pull a little line. Then hold the reel and hit it to set the hook. Summer and early Autumn paternoster. 5/0 hook tension on the line and get read...

In ppb 10m or less no sinker (unless there is a current ) 10-16m pea size running sinker to a a rolling swivel/about 74cm leader 16m+ about a 1cm ball running sinker/swivel etc Sometimes we sound the fish mid water,then floating rigs Even when bottom fishing i always have a floater out especially wh...

Hey all, like many of us i sold a car that i shouldn't have, i stupidly sold my hz station wagon (rego PEN 477) to a young fella down frankston/ Somerville way for a bargain price of $2500, i sold it about 15 years ago and i reckon ive thought abut it every day since.. all i want to know is if anyon...

Just sharing a few tips that I found work for me with "keeping", "freezing" and "thawing" my catch. Keeping and Dispatching Firstly, I always try to (80% of the time for fish BUT 100% of the time with Crabs) try to dispatch my catch in an ice slurry. For those unaware, that's ice and a little sea wa...

Hi Guys, this is a report from a few days ago. With some nice calm days forecasted for earlier on in this week, I got a call from a mate of mine to try for some squid locally. We both arrived at the ramp around 1:30pm and after launching, headed over to a spot we have done well in the past. The wind...

Testing a battery with a multimeter only gives you half a picture of the batteries condition. You really need to get it load tested to see if its delivering the CCA its rated for. Sometimes if a cell is bad it will still read above 12v but will not deliver the CCA for cranking. Its probably good pie...

I've caught plenty of squid on cheap Gillies and Mojiko jigs - when the squid are hungry they will smash them just as quick as anything else. They don't last as long as good quality jigs though, and the sink rate can be inconsistent so if the squid are being fussy they will catch less than decent ji...

The plan in my head : Step one : catch a big snapper, like a really big snapper worth mounting Step two : dont worry about step two and beyond, do step one first. Step three : focus on step one one first! Step four : back to step one first seriously. One must learn how to walk before running. Years ...