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Lakes have hot spots, depending on the time of year and the weather. There are things called wind lanes,Lake Leake Boy wrote:When river fishing, I look for a good fast section of water in to a good pool, or the calmer slower running side of the river. Most hold fish. MeppsTas has taught me alot! But when lake fishing, just cast anywhere really. lol
Basti wrote:no it took him two to realise he's gotta wind it back in.DougieK wrote:It took you two years to figure out to cast at the water?CarlG wrote:Gunners took me two years to figure out .
DougieK wrote:Google maps is the single greatest invention ever, closely followed by this forum.
First I decide what my target species will be, let's say today it's squid. I've never caught a squid before, so i'm going to jump on youtube and type in something like "squid fishing melbourne". Oh LOOK! That beno guy who does the awesome salmon video's also does some squid ones. OK, so I need a couple of squid jigs which is easy enough, he's in the Mt Martha area but he's in a boat, I dont' have a boat! So i'll have a look at the mt martha section of the forum and also the squid section, find out what the go is. Here's a post from Nhillboy that says I can get whiting, pinkies and flathead off the rocks at Martha, and several different posts about squid. OK so jump on google maps, lets use the earth button and the street view to find out where a good spot might be. There is a bit of sand followed by reef straight off hearn road, that looks good!. Reading some more of Nhills posts, I might take a 10 foot surf rod, my 902 spin rod and my 7 foot ultra light spin rod. I can soak a pillie fillet on the big one, and either cast for salmon or squid with the other two.
^ That's pretty much how I started fishing Mt Martha, with quite a few PM's back and forth.
Gunnamatta was the same thing but with CarlG and FC talking me through the gearing process. Rod Bender has put me onto a few different trout spots. IMO once you're educated about which species goes where, Google Maps and a bit of friendly help on here is the best way.
Thanks for that, I’ll certainly give the charts a look over.frozenpod wrote:Finding snapper landbased down there would be tough.
Pinkies can be caught inside of Andersons Inlet up at the eastern end around easter but I haven't seen any decent landbased snapper.
I would suggest looking at charts and looking for areas where it has a decent drop off to 10m plus close to land, ie rocky points.
Better off trying off one of the western port area or off the rocks at the eastern entrance.mpharris66 wrote:Still a fairly old thread to post to, but, any feedback/suggestions on LB snapper locations around Inverloch, Cape Patterson way? (I need to get a boat....)