Warmies

Location: Warmies
Date: 18.01.2009
Time: 8:00 pm - 10:30pm
Weather: Calm
Crew: Arnold, Dave
Target Fish: Snapper, Bream
Bait: Squid & Pillies
Rigs: Basic Running Sinker
Berley: None
Catch: None
Report: No Action.
Rating: 1/10 - Better than sitting at home....

phillip Island

tinny
4 whiting, 2grass whiting, blue fish ?
berley - anaseeed
double hook up salmon and double hook up trevally
elliott ross laurizzla

Phillip Island

5 whiting
big leather jacket
pink nippers
red fish
luke, katlyn, dave, ross

Phillip Island Christmas '08

Location: Tinny Spot
Date: 27.12.2008
Time: 10:00 am - 2:30pm
Weather: Mainly fine. Not sure what tide it was? Rosco, can you edit if you do?
Crew: Toon, Ross, Willo
Target Fish: Whiting, but anything else goes at this spot
Bait: Pippi, squid
Rigs: Paternoster
Berley: None
Catch: 5 x Whiting, 2 x reef bastards, 1 x wrasse thing
Report: Hit three spots with little action. Was going to row back in but hit a forth spot, and was right on in the action. Snagged all whiting in the one spot. Top final sesh. Ross was on fire with most of the whiting. The biggest one signed in at about 40cm.

Rating: 6/10 - A little disappointing for a super location.

Woolamai Surf Fishing

Location: Woolamai First Carpark - Anzac Beach
Date: 18.12.08
Crew: Ross
Time: 2-4pm
Weather: 20-30 knots, blown out waves, mild
Target Fish: Salmon, Gummy
Bait: Snapper Snatcher 4/0 blue thread, Squid triangles, Snook fillets
Catch: None - no bites
Report: Fished 150m to right and left of Wollamai's first carpark, no gutters
Might try second carpark next time. Good chance to practice casting. Needed around 80m cast to make it over the break.
Rating: 1/10

Rat Rock

Location: Rat Rock
Date: 11.12.2004
Time: 7:00 pm - 12:00pm
Weather: Initial winds, but calmed down for quiet night. Low tide was just before 8:00 pm.
Crew: Arnold, Toon, Ross, Carrel
Target Fish: Snapper, Gummy
Bait: Squid & Pillies
Rigs: Snapper Snatchers and Running Paternoster Rigs
Berley: None
Catch: 2 x Banjo Guitars

Report: Little action throughout night, but once the wind calmed down fishing was pleasant.

Rating: 4/10 - Scores only because of the sunset.

Old Photos 2005-2006

Snapper Flathead King George - 5 stars













Simo with a Fiddler off the boat.






















Nice catch off the Tinny














Spear fishing Ventnor
Wrasse?

Wrasse not bad to eat, maybe bbq best option.

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

Western Port Bay

Location: Elizabeth Island Mark & Hawkseys Secret Spot
Date: 14.11.2008
Time: 3:30 am - 12:30pm
Weather: 15-20 Knots
Crew: Huggett, Toon, Hawkes
Target Fish: Snapper, Gummy
Bait: Squid, Pillies, Sand Whiting, Barracouta, Salmon
Rigs: Various
Berley: Market mystery bag
Catch: 1x Pinkie 34cm, 5x Couta, 1x Slimy Cock Rod, 1x Mullet, 1x Ray, 20x Salmon, 10x Flattie

Report: Not much at Elizabeth Island mark, tide running too fast. Moved to Hawkesy's secret spot at about 4m water. Good session with no tide and constant action.

Rating: 7/10 - Wanted a big red!

Rat Rocks

Location: Rat Rocks
Date: 13.11.08
Time: 7:30 -10.30pm
Weather: Warm, raining and windy
Crew: Dave, Arnold
Target: Snapper, Gummy's
Bait: Eel, Pillies, Squid
Rigs: Snapper Snatchers
Berley: None
Catch: None
Report: Pretty quiet evening on the zzz. Was blowing a gale, raining...yet still pleasantly warm. Starting to wonder if this spot is as productive as we first thought.
Rating: 2/10

River Near Dave's House

Location: The River Near Dave's House
Date: 11.11.08
Time: 7:30 -9.30pm
Weather: Perfect evening
Crew: Huggett, Martin
Target: Eels
Bait: Chicken
Rigs: 3/0 hook. No lead
Berley: None
Catch: 1 Eel
Report: Martin's first time wetting a line...and I suspect not the last!! As expected this little spot is swarming with eels. Action started when it started getting dark. Hooked onto about 10 eels, lost most in the snags. Managed to land only one eel (Martin's first score on the board).
Rating: 7/10

Beer Battered Flake

Fish: Gummy Shark
Batter Recipe: 1 cup of plain flour, salt, pepper, and add beer and stir till a good consistency. Once it takes a good form, add a couple of pinches of paprika and cut up some thyme. Add ingredients to batter and then let sit for ten minutes.
Method: Heat vegetable oil in fry pan. Dust fillets with plain flour. Coat fillets with batter. Place in hot frypan. Cook on each side till nice golden colour. Drain on paper towel. Eat with salad and chips! Mmm.
Note: After fish was filleted, froze fillets for two weeks before cooking.

Rating: 10/10

Rat Rocks

Location: Rat Rock
Date: 26.10.08
Time: 3:00 -8.30am
Weather: Calm morning
Crew: Huggett, Toon, Arnold
Target Fish: Snapper
Bait: Squid, Pillies
Rigs: Snapper snatchers and running paternoster rig.
Berley: Market mystery bag
Catch: None
Report: No bites, no boots into dirty filthy rats and no seagull kites. The early early morning session didn't seem to agree with any of us...and sunday was a complete write-off. As always though we had some good laughs.

Rat Rock

Location: Rat Rock
Date: 14.10.08
Time: 8:00 -11.30pm
Weather: Full Moon, little cloud, calm night
Crew: Huggett, Toon, Arnold, Willo
Target Fish: Gummy, Snapper
Bait: Squid, Pillies, Eel
Rigs: Snapper snatchers and running paternoster rig
Berley: 1 large blue grenadier carcass
Catch: 3 x Eagle Ray, 1 x Pinkie (27cm), 1 x Gummy
Report: Good night and not many fisherman. When we arrived (just before sunset), dudes to our right landed a good sized snapper (on pillie). Arnold caught the pinkie which took a surprisingly good run about an hour after dark. Gummy was caught at about 10:30pm. Pinkie took pillie bait on paternoster rig, while gummy took the combo (pillie and squid) on the snapper snatcher. The eagle rays took snapper snatchers. Penguin's were walking around the joint, and there were many large rats. Huggett got frustrated, cos he just missed two.
Rating: 8/10 . Would have been a 9 if Huggett laid boot to one.

Queenscliff - Point Lonsdale Shark ?

Location: {Queenscliff}{Point Londsdale Pier}
Date: 28.09.08
Crew: Ross
Time: 4.00-11.00pm
Tackle: {Green soft plastic with glitter casting around pilons in Queenscliff Harbor}
{Shark set-up was 6.0 hook, 40lb trace, 2 swivel running sinker, 50cm sinker leed, 20-25cm hook trace - great for casting far}
Bait: {Large pink suid jig}{Full squid wing}
Weather: 27 Sunny
Target Fish: {Squid, Silver Trevally}{Shark}
Berley: none
Catch: 1 x Squid
Report: Hooked up to what we thought was a shark, most likely a seven gilled, battled for two hours, i snapped it off by accident pulling the line with the rod horizontal - such an idiot
Rating: cool/10