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I found yesterday rough fishing too, I think we're onto something about the moon!

Well they have asked me again to take them fishing I decided to try mordialloc pier we did catch stuff so did others but all fish about the size of your thumb which I still class as donuts

There should be some salmon around at this time of the year.
No luck with them?

Nope no salmon

We are moving to black rock after old mate said pinkies where being caught there

Are you going there now?
If so, good luck!

Yeah I was now we are heading home donuts again

e.welch wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 09, 2020 6:08 pm

Yeah I was now we are heading home donuts again

Admiring your determination.
Dont give up. Many of us get donut days and donut trips too.
Fishing is all about trying. Keep trying and one day you'll get that sweet sweet day where the stars are aligned (and no bloody full moon!)

Many of the reports and the videos are showing the great sessions and not manh showing when the anglers had to come back donut after donut.

There's been Aussie salmon around port melb. Maybe try there next?

Pier fishing is a little tricky to get consistent results. I definitely wouldn't go blaming the moon phase for poor results especially when you are landbased. For those interested Wednesday wasn't a full moon but 3 days after it, typically the full moon is seen as a good period for fishing, with 3 days before, day of and day after being the most common time frame people believe there is increased fish activity. The only thing I've found the full moon poor for is fishing after dark in places where lights attract baitfish etc. which brings in predatory fish. My reasoning for there being a noticeable difference here is that the impact of the lights is reduced by the ambient light from the moon, this has been most notable for squid but there are other species I've noticed a long term trend of less productive fishing in these conditions

Well I’m going back again today but heading straight to black rock after we saw a guy flying out sps on his drone and catching pinkies so we will burley as hard as we can high tides just after sunset and going for a night fish to try change my ten trip donuts broke my old record by three hopefully we end up with some fish to smoke rather then another unsuccessful trip all my donut trips I tend not to report that’s why i don’t tend to leave many reports anyways any advice for black rock would be greatly appreciated thanks in advance everyone’s been so helpful to me and tried there best to get me onto some fish