Bitspere River

Location: Bitspere River
Date: 19-May-2012
Weather: Overcast
Crew: Dave, Ross
Target Fish: Trout
Bait: Lures - Spinners
Berley: None
Catch: 1 x Brown Trout ~ small
Report: Amazing part of the Bitspere River. Parked beside farm and walked across paddock. Waded in the water upstream for a couple of hours. Caught a nice little Brown around the island. Good little fight. Caught of a silver spinner. Dave also had a hook up, looked like a nice size but unfortunately lost it. Came across a run down, make-shift cabin up river in a picturesque setting. Plan to cook up fish next time at this spot with a nice cold beer. Couldn't believe this was the Bitspere! Will give this spot a go many more times.
Rating: 7/10

Stockyard Point

Location: Stockyard Point
Date: 6-May-2012
Weather: Overcast
Crew: Dave, Ross
Target Fish: Gummy Shark
Bait: Fresh Eel caught from the Yarra River
Berley: None
Catch: Nothing!
Report: Fished 4.40 - 7.30pm. Low tide at 7pm. Many reports of small to medium sized gummy's caught from here. The channel can be reached with a decent cast only at low tide. We fished this spot on the full moon. Reports of Elephant Sharks caught here the previous day. Amazing views, also a great spot to camp in the dunes. Glow sticks helpful at night time, pvc rod holders worked well. Wade in water as far as possible and cast as far as possible towards French Island. I'm taking a sea kayak next time to find out exactly where the channel is !
Rating: 5/10

Location: Sandy Hook 
Date: 5-May-2012 
Weather: Mild - around 15 degreesywogs 
Crew: Toon & Austin 
Target Fish: Blues and Stripers 
Bait: Clams and Bunker 
Berley: Chook pellets
Catch: 1 x skate, 1x plastic bag fish 
Report: Fished the high tide, full moon, sunset from 4-9 pm. Tried to hit that run of blues the year prior but nothing out there. Water was calm but no one was catching anything. Skate took a nice zzzz, zzzzzzzz, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz then bang, but other than that it was pretty quiet. Austin caught a plastic bag fish. It gave a pretty good fight until it was skull dragged onto the sand and found out it was just a plastic bag.
Rating: 4/10

Artillery Rock - Lorne

Location: Artillery Rock
Date: 5-May-2012
Weather: Overcast
Crew: Dave, Westy dudes
Target Fish: Salmon
Bait: Lures - Halco Twistie, Alma Pilchard, Alma Ghost, Laser - Red Head
Berley: None
Catch: 1 x Tailor ~ 1.2 kg
Report: Fished 3 - 6pm. Low tide at 330pm. Hooked up 2 good size salmon on Alma Ghost but lost on retrieve due to Salmon jumping out of water. Tailor hit Halco Twistie. Dolphins keeping the fish away. Be careful at this spot, fish around low tide only with maximum 3ft swell.
Rating: 7/10

Howqua River

Location: Howqua River - Between 8 Mile Flat and Ritchies Hut
Date: 21-Apr-2012
Weather: Warm and sunny early, then a little rain in the afternoon
Crew: Dave, Ross, Willow
Target Fish: Trout
Bait: Lures - Silver inline blades, Rapala CD5 Spotted Dog, Rapala CD5 Rainbow Trout
Berley: None
Catch: 1 x Brown Trout ~ 35 cm
Report: An absolutely marvelous weekend. One of the most beautiful fishing spots imaginable. Ross hooked a beauty at our lunch spot but unfortunately lost it. Dave landed a nice Brown Trout at around 4 pm just after it started raining - made for a tasty appertiser at dinner with a squeeze of lemon. Both fish hit Rapala CD5 lures. Witnessed a medievel battle in the camp site on the Saturday night. Great photography by Willow.
Rating: 9/10