Fishing Victoria Forum

I have nothing new to offer but want to add that live flathead works for mulloway. Jews and gummies can be hard to crack, I've had a sh*thouse couple of seasons with nothing but unwanted species eating hard-earned baits and only two fantastic runs (one of which resulted in a clear sighting of what w...

Bloody great to watch!!! It is particularly great to see someone (and your mates in other adventures) with the full on land-based bug prepared to put in the hard yards. I did a lot of hard yards in Vic many years ago, including TP and the Prom in general, for barely a bite. All my decent LB fish end...

My girlfriend loves the seals that every jetty I try to fish seems to have in residence haha. Dugong and calf off Carnarvon jetty was pretty amazing for a Victorian boy who'd barely left the state. Followed shortly after by hooking up to a tiger shark on trevally head from the same jetty was also pr...

Apologies...def looks more like 2 or 3 if walking along the contour of the beach... Edit: further than most people will walk along a beach for a casual crack at some whiting with a 6 ft rod anyway haha (referring to OP). They must have the yellow beacon markers anyway surely? Like you, I still remem...

For those playsng along at home, the Classon-Wilson book gives us this (so could be worth a go in the right conditions!):

Yea, sorry by snaggy I don't mean the bottom so much (as you say, you need the structure etc), but just one of those pain in the bum spots when retrieving line and (on those rare occasions) when hooked up haha. Still, with long rods and the absence of other fishos spots are always worth a go for sur...

I've not tried to be honest - it looks a bit snaggy and with so many good rocks within another 20 odd mins drive I've not given it a go: has anyone else? ...but on the inside of those rocks in the sheltered bay can be a a lot of fun, and I reckon you could strike it lucky soaking big fresh baits on ...

If I'm in ~1m water I'll often have a barley bag tied to my ankle with some pellets or just a loaf of bread. Give it some tuna oil if you don't mind scrubbing it off your skin/waders and aren't too fussed about the odd stingray...if that idea freaks you out then back right off to less than knee deep...

If you're chasing whiting and are happy with school whiting also then you don't necessarily need a surf rod to fish some of the beaches in the area...not all of them are full blown 'surf' beaches with distant gutters...in fact there are two fairly sheltered bays either side of the river that you can...

Not too many home brewers here then looking at that assorted list of cleaning products haha? Vinegar and hot water is one of the best options. It is a safer alternative to bleach but is still an effective low pH acid, it has natural odour masking properties that neutralise rather than simply take ov...