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There have been dome snapper and plenty of pinkies coming into the reports around the bay over the past week or so. While the fish are still scattered and not thick in numbers they are definitely out there and are being caught. Water temperatures ar

While the average weather hasn't been super motivating for many forms of fishing it's probably the best time of year to focus on simple bread and butter species around the bay. The many species on offer for angler at the moment are bream gar

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 06/08/21 Picture: Marco Fraschetti Our Contributers Zach Relph Joachim Azzopardi Peter Fullarton John Curtis G'day > Welcome back to this week's State-wide

There has been enough on offer for most landbased anglers fishing Port Phillip Bay recently. Pinkies whiting bream and squid have been the mainstay over the last week. The bream fishing has been good in all of the estuaries including the Yarra and P

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 20/05/22 Picture: ACAAR Hatchery - Yellowtail kingfish brood stock Our contributors Aaron Moses John Dempsey Peter Fullarton John Curtis G'day > When the weathe

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 12/08/22 Honking pink snapper seen from a different perspective - Credit: Fishin Wishin Life Our contributors Sam Russell John Dempsey Peter Fullarton John Curtis G

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 15/07/22 Queenfish underwater - Marco Fraschetti Our contributors Sam Bock John Dempsey Peter Fullarton John Curtis G'day > Sadly this is my last State-wide Fis

Most anglers don't realize but the winter fishing for both pinkies and snapper can be excellent. While numbers of fish aren't as thick as say October the rewards are certainly there for anglers braving the cold conditions. There have been fi

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 09/07/21 Picture: Marco Fraschetti Our Contributers Zach Relph Joachim Azzopardi Peter Fullarton John Curtis G'day > Welcome to WA's biggest and best weekly

As the days slowly start to get longer here in Melbourne the one thing that is on many angler's minds in the crimson tide of snapper that have slowly started to infiltrate the bays. The fish that enter Port Phillip at this stage of the season ar

The past week has brought the snapper on the chew a bit better in Port Phillip. Water temperatures have risen to between 15-16C and when this stabilizes the fish will bite even better. Earlier in the week the fish went well off Carrum over the mud w

The snapper have been actively feeding out from Mornington through to Mt Martha over the past few weeks with fish to over 7kg out there to be caught. Fishing depths of 17 - 22m have been the best bet and you pretty much have to be out early as the b

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 17/06/22 Rankin cod: Credit - Marco Fraschetti Our contributors Austin Brightling John Dempsey Peter Fullarton John Curtis G'day > Welcome to WA's biggest a

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 25/10/24 Since last week's full moon period large schools of pink snapper have been gathering in Cockburn Sound to spawn and footy legend Glen Jakovich was ther

Reports from Westernport have showed that all species are well and truly on offer at the moment. The next lull in weather should see plenty of anglers tangling with both snapper and whiting with a few gummies thrown in to the mix also. The shallows

There are skeptics out there but Port Phillip is still producing some good snapper fishing. Some could say it is as good as during October or November but without the boat traffic. Fish to 5kg aren't a scare occurrence if you're out doing th

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 08/04/22 Picture: Jake Rotham Our contributors Sedin Hasanovic Jade Relph Peter Fullarton John Curtis G'day > Exmouth: 1 Zach: 0. The Gascoyne fishing mecca gav

Westernport has become the more popular bay for the fisho's recently as the attention has swung towards the shallow banks and grass beds in search of King George whiting. There haven't been any real hot spots for the whiting as many anglers

  Port Phillip Bay can provide a bit of variety in terms of fish species but generally you have to target a specific species to have the best results on it. Lately there has been a bit to offer boat based anglers with whiting squid cuttlefish s

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 22/12/23 This stunning dolphinfish snap courtesy of @bdoutdoorsdotcom is how most of us will look at 2am on December 27th prowling the fridge and tucking into some