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While there are still some crowds around the Gippsland lakes region the fishing has been very good - especially if you can find a bit of quieter water. The whole region from Sale through Lakes Entrance and out towards Mallacoota near the NSW border

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 20/10/23 In case you missed it the Metro FADs fishing season has officially begun with the deployment of four FADs off the Metro coast this week! The four most nort

The whiting reports from both Westernport and Port Phillip have continued to be excellent. While the height of Summer can provide numbers of smaller fish there have still been some excellent fish caught if you can weed through the smaller school fish

The top end of Westernport has been getting fished a bit over the last week by anglers in search of whiting and the whiting fishing has been a bit sporadic in the shallows - but there have been some nice flathead caught as bycatch. Most of the flath

Once again the wind this week has been preventing anglers from getting out but during the lulls some great fish have been caught. Anthony James & Logan Mader from the rock band “Once Human” managed a trip out with the Oceanhunter guys and

Monday 18th January This is one monser flathead! Great eating too!

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 04/06/21 COBIA! Brenton ledge was sight-casting cobia while enjoying ideal conditions off Dampier and this speedster took his lure. Great pic and cobia Brentron the

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 24/12/20 Land-based fishing guru and Recfishwest Safety Ambassador Gideon Mettam pulled this delightful dhufish from the rocks near Albany while donning his Crewsav

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 26/04/24 The 69th National Spearfishing Championships have taken place in Dunsborough this week from 20-26 April and Recfishwest are proud to be supporting and fund

The gippsland estuaries have been starting to warm up and the fish are on the move accordingly; with bream and flathead the main targets. With the water starting to warm up fish like flathead are starting to move into the shallower water where they

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 27/09/24 Barra Bash smashes WA comp record AGAIN with 1 412 anglers and epic catches! For the second year running this weekend’s Apex Kununurra Barra Bash has

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 08/07/22 The South West - Recfishwest Our contributors Sam Bock John Dempsey Peter Fullarton John Curtis G'day > Last weekend I went down south to visit my brot

The estuaries out along the east Gippsland coastline are fishing well at present. The holiday crowds have quietened off and water traffic is back to a minimum and the fish are eating. The Gippsland lakes themselves have been quiet however with some

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 16/09/22 Jim Bastow @primal_instinct_fishing absolutely nailed his billfish snaps recently. Cooper Watson @cooperrwatsonn featured in the snaps to show some incredi

Flathead Catfish

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 19/01/24 Heading west of Rottnest? Make sure you have some lures out the back because monster marlin were hooked this week. The FADs are also red hot at the moment

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 28/03/24 There's reportedly been a lot of sightings of wahoo out at the FADs from Mandurah right up the coast. If you manage to catch any make sure you send us

The bream fishing around the local haunts has been good as is pretty consistent if you're heading out towards Gippsland. The local systems such as the Patto have been tricky as usual but there are some quality fish coming out. Customer Tony fish

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 08/03/24 Ever think about a location to fish that you just find so fascinating? Personally the Buccaneer Archipelago is just one of those places I'd die to fish

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 07/04/23 While the demersal fishery is back open in the West Coast Bioregion until July 31 remember there are plenty of other great fishing options such as pelagics