Fishing Victoria Forum

rb85 wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 09, 2020 8:02 pm

Sep isn't far away. Personally Im looking forward to summer in bass strait.

X2.
Would still like a couple of cracks at the reds, but if it isn't to be, not a drama.

If's a question with a lot of answers Dennis. In Westernport, I use a couple of 10-12kg rods, (one is an old Abu Suveran I've had for donkey's years). As 4Liters mentioned, the main issue is the bycatch, Skate, Rays and the like. I've caught 1300mm gummies on a little 6-8kg Samurai rod, and that was...

A most excellent effort mate, well done. I take it said Carp are now fertilizer.? My backyard is tiny, just a patio and carport so unfortunately straight in the bin before giving the concrete a hose down. Ah, understandable. I'm trying to get into the habit of burying all my salmon frames in the ga...

A most excellent effort mate, well done.
I take it said Carp are now fertilizer.?

That's a top effort mate. I've had zero luck landbased of late, god to see they are around ar least.

4liters wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 31, 2020 12:24 pm

Good to see common sense prevailing.!

Not nice when it happens, but sometimes, there's just bugger all you can do about it.
Clobbered one while driving Doug's Patrol up to JB last November. 3.30 in the morning, doing 110km/hour up the Hume.
Woke Doug and Ads, who were both asleep..

Great stuff shorty. im waiting for them to get a bit closer to the metro to have a crack with the bream gear :-D They are ripping fun on lighter gear, but in the surf, you're battling the conditions as much as the fish. That bigger fish did the classic Salmon move, race in with the wave, then go si...

Never really targetted them specifically, but have caught them on a variety of smaller metals. soft plastics, x-raps and the like.

Looks similar to our recently deceased cat, Fat Demon, (though the rest of the family named him Mister Mestophloles).
He was 7.5kg, and a big powerful bugger with it.