Fishing Victoria Forum

Nice what size sinkers did you use was it around slack tide . Will a 8oz hold when water is running . I used whole pilchards rigged so they could swim in the current. I incorporated a marble sized sinker into the rig so it sat under the pilchards chin. The baits depth would depend on the speed of t...

I have caught mulloway and elephant fish at the Sheepwash as well as plenty of salmon and mullet.

Our estuaries are facing all sorts of problems these days. Climate change and increasing temperatures, increased fishing pressure, the encroachment of urban areas, reduced flows of freshwater coming down due to dams, etc, pollution runoff from urban areas and farmland, flood damage and a loss of hab...

If the argument is that the fish are over fished then it is time to reduce the bag limit from 10 to 5 and close the rivers during spawning. The recreational catch is much greater than the commercial catch of bream. In addition to the above maybe they should also apply a slot limit as well, where ev...

You were fighting an up hill battle, trying to fly fish in an anchored boat with your bait fishing mates. The two fishing styles just don't mix. To successfully catch fish on a fly you need to be mobile. But still, you had a good trip and that's the main thing. Thanks for sharing the details of your...

You've only been fly fishing for one month, you say. Are you sure it's not your technique? Maybe you're scaring the fish by lining them or slapping your line down too hard. You're also tying your own flies, which is good, but are they suitable for the conditions and are you using them correctly? Are...

Maybe you could get the others to drop you off somewhere where you can wade and fly fish by yourself and they could pick you up later in the day. You will probably do better working the edges anyway. I'd say the bream are finished their spawning now and they will be actively looking to eat. It shoul...

It sounds to me that you've pretty well got it covered. Good luck at Bemm River Bugalugs. Please let us know how you go.

Pretty much any freshwater in or near the Otways will hold trout. The Gellibrand at Stevensons Falls is great for walking and fly fishing, with plenty of room, generally, for your backcasts. The middle sections of the Gellibrand holds some huge trout, but much of it is overgrown with bank side veget...

Boonanza wrote:Mallacoota?

davek has already correctly guessed it. It was Marlo.