7 year ago I moved to Melbourne with my wife and kids, unfortunately I left my fishing buddies (mostly my old man) and access to boats and gear up in Brisbane (where I am from). I would fish regularly and go on trips into the estuaries and islands camping and fishing.
Thanks to @fishingmad's and some others posting Youtube videos recently having success with big bream and snapper catches along the Yarra and Maribyrnong river, I have been invigorated to get back out there and have a shot with my 2 young children (10 and 7), I have got ourselves enough light gear and tackle, made up the age old barley, cat food and scraps burley and have made a couple trips to the canning reserve, closest place to my home that seems to be well set up for fishing with the young ones. Unfortunately, this has been absolutely shocking with not even the faintest sniff of a bite let alone a fish.
So I am looking to dive in and gain a bit of local knowledge, maybe team up on the occasion with some like minded mum's and dads in order to show the kid's a good time (and that there are fish in the water
) whilst learning the ways of the local Melbournite land based fishing knowledge. Say hello and look forward to chatting.
BiDDo (Rhys)
