lorne pier 19/1/15

bigone22 · Post by **bigone22** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 3:20 pm

Hi
Just wondering if lorne pier has seen good fishing recently. Supposed to be going tomorrow. Will be targeting salmon primarily but any reports will do.
Cheers

Post by **bowl** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 3:31 pm

Hi,have a look in squid reports thread.
Or search Lorne pier, top right of page..

bigone22 · Post by **bigone22** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 3:38 pm

Thanks mate

nickfish · Post by **nickfish** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 4:26 pm

if the seal comes leave. the seal scares evreything fish away from their

seephil · Post by **seephil** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 4:34 pm

nickfish wrote:if the seal comes leave. the seal scares evreything fish away from their

Yes and no, i was there a few months ago when 3 seals were hiding/playing under the pier towards the end.
I bagged out on silver whiting there, just need to have to swim the fish away from the seals. Yes, i did lose one or 2 to the seals. However i was also able to set one of the whiting as a livie and i nearly got spooled (using 80 lb braid 300 m) on something BIG. Wasn't the smartest idea to use a 12 foot rod in hindsight, as it was hard to remove it from the rod holder. I lost my hook because i was only using 40 lb leader... :doh1:

If any of you are wondering if it was one of the seal, it wasn't, as the same 3 seals were underneath the pier the whole time...

Till today, i still don't know what it could have been.

bigone22 · Post by **bigone22** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 4:38 pm

Yeah the seals are buggers..ive lost good sambos to them heaps. If your lucky you can land them but generally the seal wins.

TrevKing · Post by **TrevKing** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 4:44 pm

seephil wrote:
Till today, i still don't know what it could have been.

I saw some massive rays under the pier when I was there, so that could be what it was.

As for recent reports, I was there last week and the fishing was okay.

On the one day that the seal wasn't there, I hooked some good salmon on metals - my advice (if you're fishing lures) would be to move around and try to locate the fish. However, when the seal/seals were there the salmon were a lot harder to find.

Don't let the seals stop you fishing though, I still caught squid and saw others catch leatherjacket straight down from the pier.

Good luck

bigone22 · Post by **bigone22** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 5:22 pm

Thanks for informing me. I will be fishing lures as always but what metals do you use. SP have given me the most success but I'd be glad of your suggestions. :thumbsup:

TrevKing · Post by **TrevKing** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 6:07 pm

SPs are great, but metals will give you the advantage of longer casts and better chance of finding the fish if they're a bit further away from the pier. I was just using Gillies Baitfish in the 15-30g range

If you're using light gear I'd stick with plastics as metals might be a bit heavy for the rod.

bigone22 · Post by **bigone22** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 8:50 pm

Okay thanks trevking ill take a heavier rod for metals. Cheers

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