Guest Post by Easty – Port Phillip Bay Charter - Carrum

Location: Port Phillip Bay - VIC

Date: 28th October 2011
Crew: Easty, Sam & Reeltime fishing charter crew (11 people)
Time: 3:30am - 6:30am
Weather: 1.5m Swell, thunderstorms, 14 knot winds. High tide @ 2.50pm.
Rig: Paternoster w/snapper snatchers
Target Fish: Snapper
Bait: Whole Pilchards
Berley: Cubed pilchards and pellets
Catch: 34 x Snapper (all over 40cm), 1 seal (almost, it took 2 snapper off the hook)
Report: Charter operator knows his stuff. Plenty of big fish caught by all. Good session
Rating: 9/10

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