Portsea and Sorrento Pier
- mazman
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Portsea and Sorrento Pier
Hey guys,
A couple of weeks back I did a trip down the peninsula to test out a new IR camera and collect some bait with my mate Ryan, who has been doing very well on the snapper in WP. We ended up having a crazy session on the cowanyoung and tommies picking up over 50 between us on plastics, with a couple of pike and a squid thrown in for good measure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fECqYXG-rmA
For this style of fishing a 1-3kg rod with a 2000/2500 reel is definitely preferred just to cast the light plastics and feel whats going on. For the plastics themselves you can get away with something like a zman slim swims or grub but your results definitely improve when you down size your plastic and jighead to something under 2" with a super skinny in profile matched up with a size 4 or size 6 jighead around 1 gram. There's definitely no right way to move your plastic, the biggest thing to consider is working multiple parts of the water column when you're searching and then targeting that depth once you find them.
I hope you enjoyed the video and if you've got any questions about this style of fishing fire away.
Cheers Alex
A couple of weeks back I did a trip down the peninsula to test out a new IR camera and collect some bait with my mate Ryan, who has been doing very well on the snapper in WP. We ended up having a crazy session on the cowanyoung and tommies picking up over 50 between us on plastics, with a couple of pike and a squid thrown in for good measure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fECqYXG-rmA
For this style of fishing a 1-3kg rod with a 2000/2500 reel is definitely preferred just to cast the light plastics and feel whats going on. For the plastics themselves you can get away with something like a zman slim swims or grub but your results definitely improve when you down size your plastic and jighead to something under 2" with a super skinny in profile matched up with a size 4 or size 6 jighead around 1 gram. There's definitely no right way to move your plastic, the biggest thing to consider is working multiple parts of the water column when you're searching and then targeting that depth once you find them.
I hope you enjoyed the video and if you've got any questions about this style of fishing fire away.
Cheers Alex
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Re: Portsea and Sorrento Pier
Always loved going down to Sorrento, just has seemed to not fish as good as it used to, might have to give it another go.
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Re: Portsea and Sorrento Pier
Just bought some jiggle fishing soft plastics. They look durable so will give them a try, thanks mate
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Re: Portsea and Sorrento Pier
Have you tried fishing with a 3-5g slug? The Yakks in NSW just inhale them.
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- mazman
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Re: Portsea and Sorrento Pier
Never gone that small on the metals before, imagine they would work quite well. The mini plastics are more for when they aren't quite on, I move them fairly slow and shake it in their face basically to get the eat
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Re: Portsea and Sorrento Pier
It still fishes well but I do agree that it used to be better. That area for me is by far the most consistent for landbased lure fishing in ppb although that could also be how long I've spent learning it as wellwishtofish wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 10:19 amAlways loved going down to Sorrento, just has seemed to not fish as good as it used to, might have to give it another go.
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Re: Portsea and Sorrento Pier
Yeah would agree, used to catch a lot of trevally casting between the pylons, any idea if they're still around?mazman wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 5:08 pmIt still fishes well but I do agree that it used to be better. That area for me is by far the most consistent for landbased lure fishing in ppb although that could also be how long I've spent learning it as wellwishtofish wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 10:19 amAlways loved going down to Sorrento, just has seemed to not fish as good as it used to, might have to give it another go.
- mazman
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Re: Portsea and Sorrento Pier
I haven't heard of many in the last few years. They used to be fairly common at both blairgowrie and sorrentowishtofish wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 5:56 pmYeah would agree, used to catch a lot of trevally casting between the pylons, any idea if they're still around?mazman wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 5:08 pmIt still fishes well but I do agree that it used to be better. That area for me is by far the most consistent for landbased lure fishing in ppb although that could also be how long I've spent learning it as wellwishtofish wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 10:19 amAlways loved going down to Sorrento, just has seemed to not fish as good as it used to, might have to give it another go.
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