Fishing Reports

Fishing reports I have managed to source either locally or via the internet. Hope they are helpful. I cannot guarantee they will be up to date or all that accurate for as all anglers know where the fish are today doesn't mean they will be there tomorrow. If you would like to add your fishing report just email me and I will include it.

This lovely bream was caught on the Wallagaraugh River just past Gypsy Point. I put the tinnie into a small cove that I thought would produce some bream. Sure enough the cove was excellent and I immediately got bites and plenty of bream. This one was the granddaddy of the day. Stayed at Wallagaraugh Retreat which is upriver of Gypsy Point. It's a great spot. Great camping sites and cabins. It is right on the water and being isolated you can leave your boat in the water between fishing expeditions. You can check it out from the links on my home page.
Here I am knee deep in high country water. I am standing in the Mitchell River as it runs through the national park. The Mitchell River is Victoria's only free flowing river and is home to brown and rainbow trout and a myriad of saltwater fish as it flows towards the Gippsland Lakes. The Mitchell River has some spectacular gorges and for the thrillseekers out there has grade 3 rapids to whitewater raft to get your adrenalin pumping.

Thursday, 26th February, 2009

Lakes Entrance: Flathead and Salmon are biting on pilchard and soft plastics. Best areas are Fraser Island and Rigby Channels. The jetties on Cunninghame Arm are producing Trevally and a few good size King George Whiting on pippi and sandworm.

Lake Tyers: Flathead are biting on soft plastics and pilchard. Bream are taking peeled prawn and Gars are being caught on sandworm.

Mitchell River: Good size Bream are biting around the mouth and the Butter Factory. Local prawn, soft plastics and metal lures are accounting for most fish.

Tambo River: The fishing is still very good around the mouth where Flathead and Bream are biting on local prawn.

Nicholson: Bream are biting on local prawn, with some Tailor still around taking lures.

Metung: Good size Bream are biting off the jetties using local prawn

Hollands Landing: Some large Bream have been landed on local prawn around the boat ramp. Flathead are taking soft plastics.

Marlo: The prawns seem to be bigger and in larger numbers, the best spots seem to be from the Marlo jetty to French’s Narrows. And of course with the prawns abundant, the Flathead and most other species are their having their fill. Some good size Estuary perch and Bream are biting on live prawn. The surf beaches are producing plenty of action.

Bemm River: Large Bream and Luderick have been biting on sandworm and peeled prawn. Bait prawn have been caught in the Channel.

Mallacoota: Easterly winds have deterred offshore fishing. Bream to 41cm are taking local prawn. Some large Mulloway have been caught on metal lures in the bottom lake. The top lake is producing Garfish on sandworm and Flathead on soft plastics.

Queenfish are the greyhounds of the sea and this guy was no exception. Talk about quick. One second I have hooked up and the next I am watching the line peel off my reel at a rate of knots. I swear I almost saw it smoke. The speed of this fish was truly phenomenal. He was hooked about 20 metres from the boat and when he surfaced with 3 acrobatic leaps from the water he was over 100 metres away and still headed for the horizon. Thankfully my reel was fully loaded with line and I managed to get him in the boat before the sharks got to him.
My mate Tony got this beauty of a bream on the Mitchell River while fishing The Bluff. He managed to catch just one fish. But boy was it a ripper. A few days earlier I had fished the same spot and caught a few bream. All the fish were caught using local bait. That's the beauty of local bait. It's fresh and the fish tend to respond to it much better than frozen or salted bait.