Fishing Victoria Forum

Great advice provided by members! Learning to ‘park’ the boat easily is just about practice I remember when I was learning... the mire people watching the more anxious I became and the more I stuffed it up! I just practiced when nobody else was around and there was no pressure and I got the hang of ...

As part of their policy to spend a bit locally the US fire fighters booked a charter today to do some"deep sea" fishing. We had 9 of them onboard at 5-30am and headed off to the pipeline. They managed to get a rare flat calm day. This year has been a shocker for windy weather. By 6-30 we were down a...

Recently the rubber on the hand grip on my 1996 25hp Johnson has worn away exposing hard plastic, very uncomfortable to operate and slippery with fish slime on my hands. I looked at a replacement grip which are fairly rare and * Expensive ! * Being an ideas man ( read tight azz ) I have found a chea...

Costly calamari catch for illegal fisher Media release Monday 16 March 2020 COSTLY CALAMARI CATCH FOR ILLEGAL FISHER A St Albans man who took 96 calamari over three fishing trips near Queenscliff last Spring has been convicted, prohibited from fishing for six months, fined $750 and forfeited his 4....

Started to work from home today. Was told to isolate myself from the crowd. So me and a mate prepared to fish straight after logging off the computer. Packed the kayak off we went to look for some flathead during the 2-3 hrs before sunset. And boy oh boy we got lucky. Was only two of us on the water...

Hi Guys & Girls I thought with the unprecedented times ahead of all of us and for what seems to be an extended period of time and with the shortage of face masks, I thought I'd post a DIY Face Mask. Now to make it clear, no face mask gives the wearer 100% protection. These face masks are based (repl...

CAR SEIZED AND FIVE ARRESTS AT CAPE SCHANCK Media release Friday 20 March 2020 CAR SEIZED AND FIVE ARRESTS AT CAPE SCHANCK Fisheries Officers seized a car and arrested five men on Wednesday afternoon for allegedly taking nearly 400 blacklip abalone at Cape Schanck on the Mornington Peninsula. Victo...

Guys, This session will probably be etched in my mind as one of the craziest squidding session ive had so far, not in terms of size but sheer craziness, aggressiveness and numbers landed. we hit up Port Philip bay South for a day of squid fishing and we weren't disappointed one bit. we stumbled acro...

Time fished : 6am-11am Weather : 19 degrees cloudy Wind : WSW 10-15kmh Moon : waning crescent 7% Tide : low 7am, peak high 12:30pm Barometer : 1022 steady Gear : 1-3 kg rod, 2000 reel, 10lb braid, 10lb fluorocarbon leader, paternoster #2 baitholder, pipi and fresh squid tentacle. 2-4 kg rod, 2500 re...

The government is damned if they do and damned if they dont. If they put a complete shut down in place and nothing major eventuates from the virus people will complain that it wasn't necessary to have a complete shutdown with such a devastating economic impact. If they carry on the way they are now ...