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Port Phillip has been fishing well for pinkies and squid over the week, especially along the eastern side of the bay. The reefy areas from Brighton right through to Frankston have been holding larger numbers of school pinkies, with average fish around 30 - 35cm, and some larger fish up to 2kg in the mix. Customer Nick fished for the pinkies from the shore just recently with soft plastics. Nick was using 'creature' style soft plastics to imitate smaller shrimp and crabs around boat moorings and drop offs, and he landed pinkies to around 40cm. A few larger fish took off around reef with his offerings, and in the mix he also found a few nice flathead.
Staff member Dylan also got stuck into a heap of pinkies out from Black Rock on the weekend. Dylan landed fish to 41cm with most around the 33cm mark. Dylan fished plastics on these schooled fish, and with a 10-15 knot southerly wind these fish were actively feeding. The best depth areas were between 8 - 11m of water, with schools of fish moving around a bit.
110mm Squidgy flickbaits worked well, and as the fish shut off a bit switch baiting to smaller 100mm Squidgy wrigglers in silver fox colour got more bites. Jighead weight of 1/6 oz helped keep the plastics down in the strike zone while the wind was up. The photo of the sounder screen shows that the bulk of the schools were down around the bottom so the lure had to stay in contact with them to get a bite from them.
On the squid front, the hotspots at the moment have been around Frankston and Mornington. A few have been caught further up around Brighton and Black Rock but with less consistency. Dark coloured jigs in the size 2.5 - 3.0 have been the go up around the top of the bay, with black and gold foil being two of the better colours to pull out out the box for this area.
James from Unreel Fishing Charters has been giving the squid a real hiding this past week. He has had lots of clients booking charters to catch squid, and he hasn't failed to deliver. The better areas for him have been around Sunnyside, Canadian Bay and Mornington. Again in this area natural coloured jigs have been more productive than brighter colours, with browns, greens and red foils doing the most damage. Combine the two colour patterns and you have a killer jig for this area. A good example of this is Yamashita's ROLA colour.
Around the pier at Mornington there have still been a few smaller squid getting caught, especially after a warmer day. Size 1.8 Yamashita Naorys in solid pink and solid orange have been producing for anglers here at the minute.
This Fishing Report was submitted on 4/20/2014 5:55:34 PM by Seamus and last updated on 4/20/2014 5:55:34 PM.
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