Portsea Pier

Date: 26 Dec 18
Weather: Perfect 25.  
Crew: Toon & Jax
Target Fish: Squid
Bait: - Squid Jigs - Black with red belly, and Purple with pink belly
Gear Used: Fishing rods. 
Catch: 3x Squid
Report: Hit Portsea Pier with Jax and fished for a total of 5 minutes. Both Jax and i cast out the jigs just 15 meters from the beginning of the pier and within 2 casts we had 3 squid. Perfect situation to then call it a day and get an ice cream from the dimmy van. Cooked the squid for dinner.  
Report: 9/10. Needed an ice bucket to keep going!!

Mordialloc Pier

Date: 11 Nov 18
Weather: Fine, slightly choppy 20. 
Crew: Toon, Jax, Millie, Sambo, Lisa
Target Fish: Sambo's
Bait: - Metal Slugs
Gear Used: Fishing rods. 
Catch: 0
Report: Another session to keep the fishing bug infused. Jax's casting getting better, and millie starting to get into it. We just need to salmon to run up and down the pier to cast into! No fish today to be seen, but pleasant 1.5 hours fishing.  
Report: 6/10

Mordialloc Pier

Date: 3 Mar 18
Weather: Sunny and 31
Crew: Toon & Jax
Target Fish: Salmon 
Bait: - Metal slugs (bumpa-bar 25g, halco twisty 25g) 
Gear Used: Fishing rods. 
Catch: 0
Report: Jax has been bugging me to go fishing again, good on him! So had to go on what was an awesome day. Was planning on just him and I, but lisa and the other 2 wanted to join so the whole family went. Girls did girls things, and Jax and I went fishing. Fishing didnt last too long as the kids got tired, so had to pack up after about 40 minutes of fishing which sucked as the action was just starting to hot up. Big school of salmon swam up the pier, and gars were everywhere just as we had to go. I did manage to cast my lure into some snag of line, and i had to jump into the water and swim out to retrieve it. Water was pristine, calm, blue, warm and just beautiful. That pier is fun to fish at because of all the boat activity and regular sightings of salmon schools to cast into.  
Report: 5/10 - if only we were there for another 3 hours!

Queenscliff

Location: Queenscliff Harbour

Date: 10.12.08

Crew: Ross, Tim, Andreas, Christian

Time: 2-7pm

Weather: 10-15 knots, sunny, calm in harbour

Target Fish: Silver Trevally, Squid

Bait: Pippie, White bait, Green soft plastic

Catch: 4 x Silver Trevally

1 x Phsyco Crab

Report: Fished on west side pier and pontoons, 3 silver trevally caught off pippie and white bait around 23 cm. Andreas caught a large one using soft plastic. Great fight bent rod in half !

Busted off next to pier! Shit !

Note: Cast bait and soft plastic into channel cut of river

Big Trevally: Should have known better but tried to pull large trevally onto pontoon by grabbing the line. Obviously less resistance and busted off. Use the rod itself to land fish or use small net. The rod takes the resistance from the fish kicking around.

Rating: 7/10

Point Lonsdale Pier

Location: Point Lonsdale Pier

Date: 04.10.08

Time: 4.00-11.30pm

Crew: Ross, Huggett, Toon, Arnold

Weather: Windy arvo 25 degrees, then fine, calm, cold night

Target Fish: Gummy, Snapper, Squid

Bait: Fresh squid, eel, pillies

Berley: None

Catch: Nothing. Saw a 5ft shark swim under the pier late afternoon. The odd weed drifting, but nothing too bad.

Report: Nothing all day/night. Bogans arrived after dark. Woodstocks, trackies, Corio type bogans.

Rating: 2/10 . Its fishing.

Lorne Pier

Location: Lorne Pier
Date: 05.07.08
Crew: Ross, Dave Huggett
Time: 8.00-11.30pm
Weather: 10-15 knots, small chop,cold
Target Fish: Squid, Silver Trevally, Mackerel, Thresher Shark, Seven Gilled
Bait: Pilchard, King George Whiting, Salmon, Barracouta
Berley: Fish leftovers - whiting, salmon
Catch: Nothing. Dave hooked onto something that was taking out line... but busted off after a minute.
Report: No luck this time. As we arrived a dude was hooked onto something big, most likely a seven gilled shark or a thresher. An hour before we arrived he hauled in a 5 foot thresher that he pulled up nearly to the top of the pier but its tail thashed the line and broke off. They were using a gafe rope to pull them onto the pier. Using full Pilchard with steel trace. 8.0 hook maybe. Weed toward the corner where the bait table is. Straight off the end or to the left seems best.
Rating: 2/10

Williamstown

Location: Williamstown Pier
Date & Time: Jan '08, 7pm-11:30pm
Weather: A little cold and windy
Crew: Ross, Huggett, Toon
Target Fish: Gummy, Salmon, Pinkie, Flathead, anything really
Bait: Pillie, Squid
Berley: Chook Pellets

Catch: 1x Banjo Shark/Fiddler Ray

Report: Quiet most of the night, only 1 ray. As usual, Melbourne piers are not really worth much effort.

Rating: 2.5/10

Lorne Pier - 09.02.08

Fishing Type: Pier
Crew: David Hug
Weather: Cold and windy
Time: 5pm-11pm
Target Fish: Whiting, Squid, Trevally.
Bait: Pippie, Pilchid
Rigs: Running sinker, squid jig

Catch:
1 x trevally (undersize)

Report:
Windy as a bastard, not much action, generally unpleasant.

Rating: 3/10