Weekly News & Fishing Report
18th February 2010
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Another week of fishing rolls by and the reports continue to flow in from all areas with good fishing in both the bays and around the state.  The big news however is the massive rainfalls that have drenched the South Coast of NSW.

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FOR SALE- EVOLUTION 550 PLATINUM
Due to Lee upgrading from his beloved 550 Evolution to the 6m model it has come time to put his boat on the market.  The boat has all of the optional extras and more and has been a wonderful boat for Lee. If you are interested please contact Lee at the shop on 9590 9899 or on info@fishingfever.com.au

Rhyll Game Fish Classic & Westernport Whiting Challenge
Good luck to all the anglers planning to fish in these comps this weekend. If you are keen to enter the Rhyll comp you can do so at Rhyll Fishing Club before 8pm on Friday night or for the Whiting Challenge at Hastings on Friday night or Saturday morning.

 Port Phillip Bay
Mordialloc creek has been producing some nice bream in the late afternoon.  The guys catching the bream are using peeled prawns and tube worms. Staff member Eren has caught some bream on 3" Berkely soft plastics in colour Casper.  

Mordialloc Pier is fishing well for garfish again this week.  Best times have been early morning and late afternoon.  Best baits have been peeled prawns, and silver fish fished under a float in a pollard burley trail.

Customer Rod Lehpamer and his boys were out trolling for salmon between Parkdale and Mordialloc Pier over the weekend.  The boys caught 6 salmon and released 6 others.  The boys were using their new Fishing Fever whiting rods and were so happy they made dad send some pictures to the shop.  Top effort kids.

Adam and good mates Mitch and Ange fished down off Sorrento on Friday night for some gummies.  The boys didn’t catch any gummies but did catch plenty of banjos and rays.  Better luck next time.

Eren and good mate Anton fished Mt Martha rocks on Tuesday night for some squid.  The boys caught a lovely bag of squid in just over an hour and said the squid were really aggressive taking the jigs just after hitting the water. The best jigs were Harimitsu 2.5 in colours EBR and EWC.

Anton and Ange Headed down to Mt Martha rocks on Wednesday night to give the squid a go again.  The boys mixed it up this night trying some different jigs.  They used Yamashita’s 2.0 in AJK and Megabass Dart 2.9 in Abalone Tribal Pink.  They ended up 4 squid but Anton said the conditions were a lot different from the night before

Good mate and customer Richard Brabner and mates fished out of Mornington on Sunday morning. The boys just fished a couple of hours and ended up with 20 squid some of which were up around the kilo mark.  They were using Harimitsu 2.5 jig in colour BC and EWC.

Customer Glen popped in during the week at reported that there were good numbers of king fish around Black rock. Best times have been early morning before the boat traffic gets bad. Best baits have been fishing live garfish under a float or balloon. Other methods that are worth a go is casting poppers or slap stix soft plastics. 

Westernport 
Matt Cini from Reel Time reports that this week that the fishing has been out of control with gummies and whiting.  This week they caught plenty of gummies with the best one going 18kgs.  The whiting have been going really well with one charter catching their bag of whiting in less than two hours.  There has also been some big garfish taken up near Warnett fishing over the shallow weed beds. The best places to start targeting the whiting have been Tyabb bank, Middle Spit, and Tortoise Bank.

Out the front of the western entrance there is some stripes kicking around, it is a matter of trolling small skirts like Micro Uzi’s in a range of colours.  It’s important to look for birds working as they give away the fish.  Some lucky anglers have been catching them from the rocks around Phillip Island using small metal slugs. 

Out Of Town

Hay
Lee headed way out west during the week to chase Murray cod with Scott from Bermagui Bait and Tackle and local angler Jaimon. The water was dirty on the Murrumbidgee so the fishing was tough but the boys got a few small cod and one nice yellowbelly, as well as losing a couple of much better quality fish when the hooks pulled.

Mallacoota
Good customer Scott Wakefield headed up to Mallacoota for the weekend to catch some flathead.  Scott is chasing that 1m flathead and in the last few months he has managed 2 over 90cm.  This trip saw him catch his second big one, which went 92cm.  He also caught plenty of others all between 40 and 60cm.  He also reports that there are plenty of salmon in the bottom lake, which are between 1.5 and 3kgs.

Bermagui
The rain has stopped for now so lets hope the blue water action fires again.  Since all the estuaries have opened up the beaches are on fire with mulloway, salmon, and big tailor being taken along the coast.  Stuart ìRooster’ who runs game boat See Bee caught 2 marlin on Wednesday about the 80kg mark and released one.  The water temp has dropped from 25 to 22 so things should get better over the next couple of weeks.

Portland
Good mate Mick from Aussie Angler has been back at it with a trip to Portland last weekend producing a lovely 30kg tuna for him and his crew. The fish was caught well to the west of the Horseshoe and took the same small black and red Black Bart Lure that has taken all his fish over the past weeks.

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Have a great weekend!

Lee, Morne, Adam & Eren

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