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The bait has been insane this summer! Plenty of pilchards and greenies have been easy sabiki baits to catch at Bullshark Barge three miles south of the inlet. While out there you can always cast a lure or fly for a bonito or drop a bonito for a goli

The autumn run of salmon is starting to show up both along the beaches and inside the bays with varied size fish getting around. The back beaches of Gunnamatta Kilcunda and Venus Bay are all producing fish with some nice fish to 3kg turning up. Insi

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 29/11/24 Crabbing in Cockburn Sound is set to open for the first time in a decade on Sunday! If you're diving for these tasty critters remember to stay safe and

Westernport's whiting fishing has been excellent recently with the fish going from strength to strength. The average size of the fish is very good at present but will drop off with more small school fish into the start of Summer. There have been

At present the snapper bite has been good but has also had some inconsistency over the last week or so. As water temperatures heat up more in about 2 weeks the fish should go off the bite as they spawn. At the moment though they are still being caug

Wahoo are one of my favorite fish to catch in blue water. They’re fast they’re mean they get pretty darn big and they’re really good to eat so there’s not a lot not to like about wahoo. July and August are two of the best mon

June is a hot month in Florida so if you’re going to want to target spotted seatrout you want to be on the water at dawn to take advantage of the coolest time of the day. You can catch trout all day long but the best bites are going to take pl

The wind has been howling again the last several days. We've had another minor front hit us though it isn't very cold yet. The temperatures have fallen nicely though into the lower 70s at times. The water temps are right there too which is g

The fishing for KGW at the minute is excellent and many many anglers are making the most of it. With many corners of both bays producing fish both boat and landbased they are well worth targeting. Westernport has been the main targeting grounds of l

While many anglers are starting to gear up and chase the snapper around the whiting fishing has been starting to pick up in both bays. There aren't as many anglers fishing for the whiting yet but the number is steadily growing each year and espe

While the snapper run is about to get most Melbourne anglers excited here is a good reason to keep all options covered! Customer Steve was out fishing just offshore from Westernport recently in search of some snapper moving in when he scored a rippe

Springtime Sailfishing is a lot different than winter where we do a lot of trolling ballyhoo kite fishing or slow trolling live baits to cover water and hopefully find fish. In the spring the fish are on the color edges and more often than not up an

Again this week the beaches have been firing for Australian salmon. With some less than ideal weather for boat based fishing coupled with northerly winds beach fishing has been ideal. All beaches have been worth a look from Lakes Entrance in the far

There has been no secret that the bluefin tuna fishing locally has been exceptional and with awesome weather over the long weekend there should be a few anglers out amongst them. There have been tuna caught from Torquay through to about Cape Woolamai

Some nice snapper have been slowly making their way into the catches of local anglers.With some warmer weather on its way the fish should be making their presence felt around the Eastern shores of the bay. The top end around Brighton and Port Melbou

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 26/01/24 This underwater snap of a dolphinfish fiesta paints a picture of what happens immediately after one smashes your lure near the FADs. We've heard report

With the recent warm weather fishing in the IRL has continued to be good with numbers and size available for those targeting Snook with live Pilchards doing most of the business on the larger fish. Redfish are also around in good numbers taking soft

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 14/05/21 One-metre of beautiful barramundi! Gavin Collins was more than impressed with this barra he caught while fishing a secret spot somewhere in WA's Pilbar

The winds had laid down nicely the last several days and it look to continue to be more of the same coming up at least for the next few days. This has been a welcome change after the almost 3 weeks of 20 mph winds we had sustained since early March.

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 18/11/22 I doubt you'll ever top a fishing snap like this if you manage to head out with any of the the billfish charters out of Exmouth. Here is the crew from