Fishing Victoria Forum

Went down to docklands again yesterday and this time persistence finally paid off. I rocked up to my favourite pier in docklands and started using plastics, after about 1 and a half hours I got nothing so I switched to bait. I was using two rods, one with a paternoster rig and the other was a running sinker rig. After about an hour of that I was getting bites but I couldn't hook what ever they were. So I switched to something tough and put on some chicken, straight away my reel was screaming and after I good fight I pulled up a nice trevally. It turned out there was a school of trevally and I pulled up 4 within 10 minutes. Then It went quiet and I went to harbour town for lunch. When I returned I used chicken like I did before hoping the school was still around. After 15 minutes I caught a small yellowfin goby, then the school of trevally returned! This time I landed 2 and lost about 3. Over all I ended up with 6 trevally for dinner and I invited some mates over for dinner.
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Nice one mate!
How big were the trevs?

Well done mate :thumbsup:

good job . heard trevallys are good to eat raw like sashimi

Thanks for the kind words guys, the trevallys were around 25cm so just on size :cheers:

Those docks trevs taste weird... but maybe that's just me. They are pretty fun to catch though, SPs do work pretty well on them but you need to drop the hook size

just a heads up that the trevally tasted just as good as snapper and no one was sick so its good to eat i guess

the school holidays are coming up so i will be fishing pretty much evry day aha, ill let you all know how i go

barwonboy wrote:the school holidays are coming up so i will be fishing pretty much evry day aha, ill let you all know how i go

Seriously jealous of u now

You're not going to "get sick" from eating fish from the Docklands / Yarra after eating them - the concern is more about the build up of contaminants in the body over years (or even decades). Trevally should be fine, as they are a non-resident species. Bream (which are resident, but travel between the estuaries in the bay, such as the Werribee) are recommended for consumption at the rate of no more than 150 grams per week. I would assume the same for mulloway, as they eat a lot of estuary fish while in the river systems themselves.