Fishing Victoria Forum

Gents, have been haunting this sight for a while now, finally got back from a week away at Portland. Rock and beach fishing primarily. Tried all sorts of baits, don't flick lures as a rule. Picked up a couple of nice salmon around 3 pound each. After the big blow, bull kelp was a major problem on th...

Was using Abu 7000"S last week and realised that my thumb was pretty much touching the spool immediately after casting. Must of been a habit I picked up after countless bird nests. Beauty of this habit is that fishing at night when you can't see your rig, enables you to clamp down on the spool BEFOR...

Had a day out on Friday. Fished Laanecoorie, the Loddon River and on the way home stopped in at Tullaroop for a peek. Consistency is my aim with fishing and once again I got donuts. Shore based only. Sorry to say that road access to Laanecoorie Weir is blocked. Used to fish just near the wall for mi...

I don't post on here very often, but thought I needed to share my near miss with the Member's. Went rock fishing on Tuesday of the Great Ocean Rd near Lorne on the Apollo bay side. Had a mate with me. Checked the tides beforehand, went to my one of my regular haunts where I have had good results bef...

I would like to thank everyone for their feed back. That link regarding the ocean swell was interesting to say the least. There was a cool change on the way at the time and the Barometer was also falling at the time. Figure now that when there is a change on the way I will stay off the rocks and sti...

Think a hook sharpener is on the cards. Have as suggested, already gone down in hook size thinking that it may help the situation. I was under the impression, "wrongly it seems", that you couldn't sharpen a chemical hook. Just has me bamboozled that generally a hook will last me all day in a boat w...

Just wanting Member's opinions on a theory I have been using lately. Have found that after I have caught several fish, "generally off the rocks", that I start missing bites. One day I decided to change my hooks after I missed a few bites to see if that maybe the hooks weren't sharp enough anymore. S...

Thanks again, appreciate all the feed back, I am also a very superstitious fisho so was just wondering if swapping hooks like I have been was just another thing I had to do to feel mentally confident I could get a feed. Funny thing is, if I don't follow my established pattern that I MUST follow, "or...

Went out yesterday from Port Arlington. Launched about 10.30 and returned about 3.00 PM. Fancied a feed of frog and did ok. We drifted In about 30 foot of water and managed to get 25 keepers between us. Reckon we returned at least that many that were undersize. Baits used were squid and pippy. Was w...

Nice work - just out of curiosity, why do you reference depth using feet instead of meters? A good question. Old habits die hard I suppose. My sounder has always shown the depth in feet and because I am familiar with such, have never bothered changing it to metres. All the airlines still work in fe...