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For the landbased anglers there are always a few snapper roaming about at this time of the year as they start filtering into the bays. Customer Ferdi popped into the store during the week to grab some fresh pillies before heading out to the rocks to

There has been a steady stream of snapper throughout the Western channel in Westernport Bay right up to the top near Warneet. Staff member Harley fished the lower section below Stony Point earlier in the week to land snapper to around 5.5kg. Harley

This snapper for Darcey was fish of the day! It was a quite nice day despite a little choppy sea. The Deep Sea Fishing Charter scorecard read –  snappers sergeant baker wrasse silver trevally sweep and striped sea pike. Darcy was very hap

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While the usual Autumn run of snapper has been very quiet there have been plenty of pinkies about to keep anglers busy. Westernport is loaded with lots of small fish to around 600g and there are also some schools of larger fish scattered around as w

  There has been plenty of table size pinkies around Black Rock and Ricketts Point at the minute with fish to 2kg quite common and a fair few bigger reds up to 6kg mixed in. With a lot of boat traffic the best time to target the fish here is ea

Port Phillip Bay is still worth a look around for anglers still keen to catch snapper. While most of the 'pinkies' have been on the smaller side of things there have still been fish 1 - 2kg floating around. Bigger hooks and tougher baits are

The whiting fishing in Westernport Bay has been good recently. The Western shoreline of the port from Quail Island around to Hastings has been fishing well for school fish right through to larger fish. James from Unreel Fishing Charters has been put

  Port Phillip Bay has really kicked into gear for the snapper over the last week. James from Unreel Fishing Charters has been putting clients onto some thumper snapper in areas from Mount Eliza through to Brighton. Most trips are resulting in

  Customer Damien fished out from Chelsea in 14m of water on Sunday morning. After berleying up with some Zealcol triple scent snapper berley and cubed pilchards his first rod went off. After a frantic session Damien caught and released over 10

  The northern end of Port Phillip Bay has seen an awesome run of snapper over the last 10 days with many fish over 5kg in weight. Fish to 10kg have been caught by anglers in boats and also from the shoreline and pier from Altona right around t

There looks to be some good land-based Snapper weather coming up later in the week with strong South-Westerlies bringing the fish in close. If you're a keen landbased angler Friday through to Saturday night look the best for you. Customers fishi

I fished with Matt and his girlfriend Jess this week. We were blessed with calm seas and great gag grouper fishing. The action was great starting at 3.5 miles. We caught several nice grouper to 27 inches using a live pilchard on a chicken rig. We als

Customer Tony is fairly new to the complex world of 'eging' - high tech squid fishing but he is quickly getting the hang of nailing some good specimens. Tony has been catching some good sized squid around Flinders using Yamashita size 4.0 an

  The area out from carrum has still been producing snapper for anglers fishing a bit deeper this week with the 16 - 19m depths giving up a few fish. Most of the snapper caught are a bit smaller in average size with more fish between the 2 - 4k

Capt. Mike Anderson and Capt. Billy Nobles/Reel Animals Fishing Team Report September 23 2012 “The start of football season always signals a great time of year for me. It means the snook are in transition and headed for their fall haunts. The mo

Most of the piers and harbours around the area have been holding good numbers of fish and squid for those who want to either collect baits for snapper and gummies or just take the family down to have a bit of fun. Piers worth a look at the moment ar

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