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Alex and his brother Bombino booked me again today for some food fishing.  Step one was to look for schools of pilchards (bait) that I could cast net and then hit some spots for snappers grouper and other tasty species.  But the first step

  The top end of the bay is still fishing well and producing some big fish. There have been lots of fish around the 5kg mark with quite a few up around 8kg. Customer Stephen bagged this awesome 104cm/10.5kg snapper on Tuesday morning fishing ou

  The northern end of Port Phillip Bay has still got good numbers of snapper present at the moment with fish anywhere from 2 - 9kg being caught. James from Unreel Fishing Charters had a ripper session with clients out from Port Melbourne just r

More fish from the top end of Westernport Bay have been caught this week with a lot of anglers trying their luck around Joes Island and the adjacent channels back to Crawfish and Eagle rock. Customer Simon caught snapper up to 4.5kg fishing the area

For the anglers who are keen to stock up on fresh baits for sharks or just get out and strike a few fish there has been plenty on offer in Westernport Bay. Many of the piers and structures around the port have had plenty of horse mackerel slimey mac

  The snapper numbers have thickened up out from Carrum over the last week with lots of fish spread out foraging over the mud. Customer Van fished in 17m straight out from Carrum to land snapper up to 6kg on Tuesday morning. He found that Silve

The snapper fishing in the top end of Westernport bay continues to be a bit more consistent than Port Phillip due to water temperatures. While only a fraction warmer than the rest of the bay the snapper know this and will stay in the area before dis

  Out from Black Rock there have been a few anglers doing well on the snapper. Fishing in shallow with soft plastics has seen plenty of school sized fish landed with a few bigger models in between. Dan from Bent Rods Fishing Adventures has been

  Customer Ky fished with his son Cameron last week off Black Rock where they caught a few good snapper. Pilchard and silver whiting did well and Cameron landed this cracking red of around 5kg using a soft plastic. The guys were fishing in 14m

It's not every day that you see snapper caught on a kids outfit. Customer Eric purchased a kids fishing outfit for $10 a few weeks ago and he had it out while snapper fishing recently. Out of all the rods to go off the pinks kids special went of

Sorry it's been a while since my last report... I've been extremely busy trying to get the new T-craft boat on the water along with fishing non-stop. The good news is I finally took delivery of my new boat (see pics). This new boat has mo

  There are some good rock ledges around the coastline that have land based access to deep water nearby however rock ledges can be dangerous to fish for anglers that don't take care. Customer Daniel fished from one of his favourite rock pla

The squid have been firing for anglers fishing the eastern side of Port Phillip bay recently; with the area around Frankston and Mornington fishing well along with the southern end of the peninsula. James from Unreel Fishing Charters has had some go

Happy New Year everyone!  After taking the 1st off I was back to work with long time client Bob and Anna.  We met up at the dock and headed on looking for bonefish where once again they proved to be elusive on fly and spin but we did miss

Portland has really heated up for the tuna fishing over the last 2 weeks with lots of anglers catching their bag of fish. While most of the fish are still wide around the 'horseshoe' there have been reports of schools of fish moving in a bit

Off Shore: Black Fin Tuna action has been very good along the edge of Conch Reef and the Islamorada Hump. Live bait presentations like bump trolling and live bait chumming with Pilchards has been very productive. Slow trolling with small plastic lur

OFFSHORE- Sailfish action has been good offshore over the past week. Bigger live baits (Goggle Eyes and Blue Runners) under the kite and smaller live baits (Threads Pilchards or Sardines) on the flatlines is standard operating procedure for the sails

It’s January and your winter redfish tactics come into play. The days of finding pilchard schools to locate feeding redfish and other gamefish such as snook are long gone. Instead we search for micro baits in protected ateas and shore birds lo