Ryliegh McVilly caught his first tuna, weighing in at around 13kgs caught out at the shelf off port fairy.
21 May 2013
Kyle from Jaks Lures Australia took his rig Fed Up to Portland for a hit out on the SBT's today... he did very well. Lots of fish boated with jigs going great but also the Adhek Bali Maxx and Micro were the stand out trolling heads:) no doubt those deep fish liked the surface noise these pushers create.
Also pictured is Tim Clarke with a magnificent trumpeter.
Adrian Azzopardi fished with Manny Abella today out at portland catching 9 bluefin one small albie and 2 stripies in off the 400 m line. Also pictured are some mulloway Manny caught in the Yarra at Southbank near Etihad Stadium!
20 May 2013
Sam Johnstone today went out off Port Fairy and trialled our new burley and raised a blue shark, which after about 10 minutes was
boatside and after a few photos they let him go in good condition.
Thanks guys looks like the new 8kg pure salmon berley container block works ok!
Corey Gauci from Get Wet Marine got this 3kg snapper off Port Fairy
Godfrey Strong got 4 tuna, tagging 2, on Sunday, and today got 4 again, tagging 1 and losing 1, off Portland.
Pictured below is Steve Moore from the Warrnambool Holiday Park with one of Sunday's tuna out of Port Fairy, as well as an impressive photo from the trollpro.
19 May 2013
Steve Moore from Warrnambool Holiday Park fished with Steve Atto and crew off Port Fairy, straight out at the shelf, bagging out and finishing off with a 4-way. Steve got one on a light spin stick which would've been good fun. They were blind strikes with no visible signs.
19 May 2013
Here's the catch from Corey Gauci and crew fishing off Portland today.
Rhookie and Goodey, fishing on 'Bardup' off Port MacDonnell, reported a generally pretty quiet weekend, with a few stripies on Saturday, but they did bag out plus tag 5 more tuna today, which were kept pristine in the salt-water ice slurry, with Peter making full use of his 12 month unlimited ice "subscription"!
Port Fairy had good tuna catches out at the shelf and to the west, and while there was the odd one caught in close, it seems to have slowed but those who tried different things again got some good table fare from the bottom.
At Portland there was plenty of action, similarly some in close but the best catches came from the shelf. Pictured below is Tom Chirnside and Jimmy Knight who fished with Mark Eland from Coota's Fishing Adventures about 5km west of the horseshoe in around 1000m
Clayton Smith got these ripper school shark off Peterborough today.
Not a lot came in at Warrnambool from the boats I saw, a few pinkies, flathead and the odd gummy.
18 May 2013
As they do, the tuna seem to have moved and most of the action looks to have been out wide today, both off Port Fairy and Portland. John Cahill from Ebb Tide Adventures is pictured with a couple on their Jaks lures and Adhek specials, caught out around the 400m off Portland. There were plenty in 200m off Port fairy but mostly blind strikes. If you're in close there's other options too, pictured is Luke Smith with a nice gummy from 50m off Port Fairy.
17 May 2013
Mixed reports from Portland today but certainly a few of the charter boats got onto the tuna. Pictured is Matt Hunt's happy crew.
Also pictured is Sam Lee with a lovely trout caught in the Merri River.
17 May 2013
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Also just got a report of a large school of tuna off Port Fairy seen in close during the week.
16 May 2013
Brad Royce pictured here with a 1.695kg bream caught on a cyber vibe in the Hopkins River, which was released.
16 May 2013
Ben Pohlner got this mulloway and some nice bream in the Hopkins. He also lost a battle with a much bigger mulloway. The bream were mostly on plastics and the mulloway on fresh salmon.
An excitable Nick Murrell snuck out after work yesterday and tricked this Merri trout!
15 May 2013
Ben Pohlner and Nathan Scholes went out from Port Fairy with Peter Goode on "Bardup" on Saturday. Pete put them onto the tuna in 43m. They ended up with 2 bluefin, 10 snapper and a dozen squid.
14 May 2013
Sharkmen Charters braved the cold wintery Portland conditions today and the clients were rewarded - bagging out on bluefin and releasing another dozen.
13 May 2013
Here's Adrian Azzopardi from Altona Fishing Club with a nice tuna taken recently past the shelf on an xrap 30, he also released several albacore up to this size.
Today, Godfrey Strong in his Stabicraft and Matt Hunt's charter boat caught any amount of tuna in close west of Portland to Bridgewater Bay, both bagging out early.
12 May 2013
Ben Thow, fishing at Crofts Bay caught this 410cm whiting, just on dusk on the 11/5/2013.
Godfrey from Strong Refridgeration had a good day on the tuna. There seems to be a whole new school(s)/population of tuna, a little smaller than those that have been caught the last couple of months, that have arrived and are currently spread right through from Portland to South Oz, and in fairly close too.
There are still good numbers out at the shelf too, and plenty of albies out wide still too.
12 May 2013
A few whiting off Peterborough on Saturday but the sweep were scarce . Huge tides forced boats to be backed down the ramp at boat bay, Peterborough . No beach was available to drive on.
12 May 2013
Nick Murrell caught this beautiful trout in one of our local rivers over the weekend.
11 May 2013
Portland fished well in close today. Pictured is the happy crew from Matt Hunt Fishing Services.
Pete Artis of Port Fairy with one of a triple hook up today all landed and
all took X raps 20s
Aaron Mitchell and the boys got a few crays off Port Fairy, and Andrew Smith got a ripping 3.7 kg thumper off Warrnambool today in the nice weather!
10 May 2013
The crew of Intruder had a good mixed bag at Port MacDonnell, including a mako which was tagged and released.
Gawaine's crew had a good day on the tuna. There was a fair bit of action west of Portland to Bridgewater Bay in fairly close, 50-80m
Matt and Peter Harkin at Main beach Peterborough have been catching salmon on blue bait and poppers. Newfield beach also producing good numbers. Note that Matts fish is smaller than Peters, as usual. (Thanks Peter for the report!)
09 May 2013
Another barrel caught off Portland today, 114kg on 15kg line, 3hr battle, near the 2000m line, by Justin Brown, Rick and John Bennett.
2nd photo is Port Fairy local Jimmy Taylor, with his first tuna he caught fishing solo in 55m off Port Fairy, there were plenty of others around and this one was caught on a purple mackerel x-rap 20. Well done Jimmy!
Third photo is the crew on Red Hot Fishing Charters with their catch from today at Portland, which was as many tuna as they liked!
08 May 2013
Port Fairy has been very productive, and not just on the tuna, Nathan McSween and Daniel Kampman got 3 schoolies off Killarney in 26m, releasing one and keeping 2 at 14.5kg and 17kg.
Lincoln Walpole and his father bagged out on garfish, including Lincoln landing this cracker at 52cm!
08 May 2013
More tuna caught in close off Port Fairy today. These guys got straight onto them, launching this afternoon and landing 2, seeing plenty.
The second photo is the catch on Matt Hunt's charter today off Portland.
Oliver and Rod Stephens caught this mulloway in the Hopkins River during the bream comp on the weekend - what a catch on the bream gear!
07 May 2013
From WOLGFC member Shane Watts: Day 4 of the Port MacDonnell Tuna Sportfish Competition. Great fishing conditions today with more bottom species caught today as well as the SBT. notable catches today included a Samson Fish of 24 Kg caught by Local Barry Williams. His son Brody also caught a lovely Tassie Trumpeter of approx 6 Kg +. There was also a lovely Mako Shark caught of 135 Kg. Yours truly was also fortunate to catch a PB Gummy of 25 Kg+. Photos attached below of today's major catches except the Tassie Trump.
07 May 2013
Mick and Tim Treloar got these nice brown trout in the merri on hard body's and gulp lures on the weekend
06 May 2013
With the decent weather forecast over the next few days and great local tuna reports, make sure you look after your catch and keep it on ice, in particular the best flake ice from our new machine! Call Lucas on 0408213113 if you need to arrange before or after hours, otherwise just drop in during business hours.
Scotty Gray today fishing with Troy Duthie and Jo Rowland, launched from Port Fairy after 2pm and back by 5:30pm with a good back of tuna all taken trolling xrap 20's and stickbaits. The wet trip home didnt bother them at all as the smiles show!!
06 May 2013
Noel Galea with one of 20 Abies caught off Portland yesterday with Jeff and Charlton Cefai. This beauty went 29 kg cleaned, they had an awesome session!
05 May 2013
Well done to the angler Adrian Cuman and crew, thanks for calling in to the shop for some more ice to keep your prized catch in pristine condition for the trip home! Very impressive fish, 101kg gutted, prob was about 110kg, caught on a Tiagra 50, took an Xrap re-rigged with single hooks, and was in 60m off Port Fairy. There were plenty of school fish in the area so hopefully they're in closer for a while now.
Corey and his crew fishing the shelf off Portland got amongst them today.
Peter Agius from Tsutomu Lures had a good day off Port Fairy today, catching any amount of tuna in 70mtrs and closer, with his larger 11" Tsutomu Lures faring just as well as the smaller ones.
Thanks to Shane Watts for this report:
Second day of Port MacDonnell O.A.C. Comp and it would be fair to say it was tough going for everyone. The Southern Bluefin Tuna were a bit scarce today with only a few weighed in which was a change from yesterday when 18 were weighed in & 30+ tag and released. Today there was an abundance of Striped Tuna caught with a couple weighed in & plenty tag & released. A few Mako Sharks weighed in as well and the comp leading heaviest SBT AT 18+ Kg weighed. Tomorrow looks to be good conditions and we might see a few of the deep water species caught along with some more Mako's and hopefully SBT & Albacore.
Pictured is Dave Fent with the leading tuna so far.
Please note that a large quantity of the competition prizes were stolen from the Port MacDonnell clubrooms so please keep an eye out for anything/anyone suspicious or selling fishing gear, and keep your gear secure.
04 May 2013
The crews of MV Reggie and Fishin' Magician off Portland got amongst some bluefin tuna and stripies on an otherwise quiet day for most boats today.
The best tuna so far for day one of the Port MacDonnell tuna comp is Peter Johnson with a 13.38 kg tuna on 3kg line class.
04 May 2013
There have been a few nice gummies around, pictured is the catch from Ash Watts off Port Fairy on Thursday.
Aaron Mitchell got into the nice chilly Port Fairy water on Friday evening just before dark and got this cray of 1.8kgs.
The tuna have been a bit slower this week with the current moon phase, but a few have been caught, mostly out at the shelf but some in closer.
Albacore and striped tuna have been in several of the catches, pictured below is Dave with one of each, caught about 35km off Port Fairy.
With the slower tuna action, some have tried different alternatives, such as this Tassie Trumpeter by Tim Clark.
Earlier this week Peter & Helen Bartlett had a top day on the albies off Port Fairy in 1400m, catching 12 and keeping 5 for a feed.
26 April 2013
The charter boats at Portland have all been doing well on the tuna in some pretty rough and rugged conditions the last couple of days. Pictured below is the crew with their catch on Matthew Hunt Fishing Services. They bagged out on tuna and also caught 15 albies.
Here's Kev 'The Shark Whisperer' McLoughlin doing what he does best!!.... Catching Sharks! This time a Female Gummy shark around 20kg that was released to fight another day, this was a few weeks ago off Torquay fishing solo.
25 April 2013
Geoff Verhoef caught this school shark off Port Fairy this morning.
24 April 2013
Congratulations to the crew, David Hall and the team from Mountain Fresh Trout and Salmon Farm in Harrietville, fishing with Joe Branca on "Off the Hook" Fishing Charters, on landing this 125kg "barrel" at Portland today!
Also pictured below is Dave Robinson with his 3kg snapper caught off Port Fairy today aboard the Seacruiser 7000HT "Impression". He also got one at 2kg and 5 smaller pinkies.
The charter boats at Portland have been catching plenty of tuna the last couple of days.
Here is a great video done by Ashley Dance of one of their tuna caught on 10kg line by Justin Nowell off Port Fairy a couple of weeks ago:
22 April 2013
Kevin McLoughlin caught this nice gummy off Angelsea last night.
The tuna reports from over the weekend suggested that it was fairly tough going for most boats, although fish were still found and caught.
Gerard Smith got into some crays at popes head.
21 April 2013
Young Xavier Ellul got this mulloway today off the beach at Granny's Grave in Warrnambool.
And the second photo is Nigel Telford with a Samson Fish from Port MacDonnell today fishing in 65m with Ian Rogers.
Matty got this ripper 3.3kg cray off Warrnambool today.
21 April 2013
More albies caught off WArrnambool yesterday, and another barrel caught in 1000m off Portland on a Black Pete marlin lure.
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Today the weather took a turn for the worse, but the tuna were on for the few boats that braved the conditions. Pictured is the catch from Matt Hunt Fishing Services from Portland.
The second photo is of a cracking snapper of over 10kg caught by Matt Harper off the Portland Lee Breakwall a couple of weeks back.
17 April 2013
The crews of Morning Glory, Snoop Dog and Cassius Cray had a good day off Warrnambool in today's glorious weather out over the 1000m line with mostly albies and Morning Glory also caught half a dozen bluefin up to about 25kg. On Cassius Cray, all 5 of our albacore took the lure that Leigh Anderson hand-made in his garage this week, his first ever attempt at lure-making and they wouldn't take anything else, it was set back in the shotgun position. The Magiltons had all lures taken with the standout being a little pink skirt in the shotgun position also.
Portland also produced plenty of fish, both tuna and albies, although some did find the going a bit slow.
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16 April 2013
Craig Kermond, Dave and Mick Williams aboard impression off Port Fairy found a few tuna eventually after a slow morning. The afternoon found them in 1400mt water with a couple of 4 way hook ups and a few singles. They were full of garfish.
Adrian Azzopardi again fished with Frank Bertone near the 2000 m line off Portland, had to work hard for the fish all day, finished up with 2 bluefin Tuna and three albies, including his biggest yet.
15 April 2013
Shaun, fishing with Andrew Westlake off Port Fairy yesterday, was happy to get his first tuna, which took the lure pictured below, way back in the shotgun position. The tuna was full of small garfish.
15 April 2013
Godfrey Strong, from the great Ice Makers - Strong Refrigeration - fished Portland over the weekend, getting their bag on Friday (6 from 7 tuna and 1 alby), Saturday despite the strong winds 5 from 6 tuna, and Sunday in a quick two hours 2 from 2 tuna.
14 April 2013
Again, plenty of tuna caught at Portland today. Pictured is Aaron Mitchell with one just over 20kg, and Jack Auld and crew with a few they kept, and they also tagged and released plenty.
Less than 2 weeks untill the first GFAV sanctioned tournament in the South West of Victoria.
This event is a joint effort between Victorian GFC and Warrnambool Offshore & Light GFC.
Bluefin Tuna, Kingfish and Shark, Tag and Release and Most Meritorious capture categories
Briefing will be at the Warrnambool Clubrooms at 5pm 25th April
Here's customer Jamie Lester out off Portland in 400m enjoying this morning's conditions with a tuna ready to go in the saltwater shaved ice slurry!
12 April 2013
Rhooky took JD, Stowie, Bossey and Bossey's lad Ayden out on Oceanic Phoenix out wide off Port Fairy, didn't see a bird but got plenty of fish 3 of the boys were tuna virgins. First hook up a 5 way and boys got em all in.
12 April 2013
Congratulations to the anglers of this 138kg barrel caught at Portland today!
Jony Ung and Reece Kennedy had a top day off Portland with a couple of tuna and heaps of albies.
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11 April 2013
Here's a video of 8-year-old Oska Wilson catching his first albacore off Port Fairy yesterday:
Portland again produced plenty of tuna and albies yesterday, pictured below are Scott Gray with one of the big albacore they got up to 25kg (also tagged 4 bluefin), Corey Gauci with a nice tuna, and Adrian Azzopardi with a big haul, and they also released plenty more.
Ray Smith got this 22.6 kg bluefin tuna on 15kg line off Portland today, a pending new smallfry state record.
A Warrnambool report from Dave Magilton: Headed straight out over the shelf today see what the SBTs were doing. Boated 6 dropped 1 & broke 1 off between 15kg & 25kg in the 500-1000m depth. Headed out to 2000m where we found schools of striped tuna busting up but they were very finicky but 1 made the mistake of grabbing a lumo skirt. Gerard Delaney also picked up an albacore and a couple of tuna fishing with Peter Harkin so everything is showing up but didn't see any signs inside the shelf.
The twin Richardson Marine custom-built plateys, "Cassius Cray" and "Barrel" ventured out wide off Port Fairy yesterday, fishing the same area out over the 1000m line and catching countless albacore and a couple of tuna to about 20kg. 8 year-old Oska Wilson had a great day with his cousin Darcy, the highlight being winding in his first albie!
Multiple hookups were the norm, the action was constant and the weather was perfect. A small white and yellow x-rap performed well, as did the Black Magic Predator Pilchard which actually got taken by the best tuna while hardly moving as we were winding in an albie, nearly all lures caught fish.
We saw masses of dolphins and birds smashing the bait schools in 80m and 100m, but no tuna were caught trolling around these areas.
Check out this sensational youtube clip of one of last week's barrels caught at Portland. Great stuff boys!
(There's a little bit of fishing terminolgy, mind the volume around the little ones!)
09 April 2013
Corey Gauci and crew had a top half day off Portland catching plenty of tuna and albies.
Zen from Caroline springs SBT 28 and 26 kg portland
A couple of shots from Brad Parkinson of Anthony Camilleri and Steve Atto from their Portland trip.
08 April 2013
Check out this video of Mark Stewart's from Sunday with some amazing underwater footage from the TrollPro. There was no surface activity while this was happening!
Pictured below is Shane Bush’s first Bluefin tuna from the same trip.
Interesting post on the Bluewater magazine Facebook page. With the season still only early and absolutely firing it looks like it's going to be a sensational year.
Richardson Marine's own Adrian was the angler of one of the thresher sharks mentioned caught yesterday off Warrnambool in 30m.
Jake Donaldson and Shane Chippas with their day's catch off Robe- gummies, snapper and a 23kg Sambo which was a surprise!
Here's a couple of videos from the weekend, one of our diving and sweep fishing on Cassius Cray yesterday:
And one of Steve Moore from Warrnambool Holiday Park Fishing with Dale McClelland from VSF, Paul "Anca" Barton and Bec Lane. It took 51 minutes to get in, total weight of 24.5kg, on 8kg line class.
08 April 2013
Isaac Harris had a good day fishing out of warrnambool in 32 meters of water out near the caves yesterday.
07 April 2013
Well it's been a huge weekend of fishing in the South-west!
Below is a great photo of one of Paul Hourmouzis' tuna.
We also saw three thresher frames at the warrnambool ramp.
Rhooky took Travis , Darcy Graham, Adam McCorkell and his lad Shannon off Port Fairy and they all got a blue fin. Pictured is Adam and Shannon . Skirts, xrap and a soft plastic did the job.
Helen Bartlett got this tuna off Port Fairy in 140m.
Paul Dumesny and crew aboard Impression also had a massive day in 1200m off Port Fairy with 6 bluefin, 8 albies and 18 blue eye.
Ashley Dance and Kev McLoughlin aboard Intruder off Port Fairy at the shelf caught a few bluefin and countless albies. They stopped for a bottom-drop and in addition to a nice flathead Kev also caught this tiny mako which they released to grow a bit more!
Jack Auld had another top day on the tuna and albies off Portland. The x-rap is a bit worse for wear after a busy weekend!
We got out this arvo for some nice crays east of Warrnambool, along with a good feed of abalone and some nice sweep.
The second photo is Scotty Gray's spoils from his dip in the water at Port Fairy.
Ed and Curly have had a successful morning off Warrnambool on the crays.
06 April 2013
Eddie Shanahan got his first blue fin tuna at 22kg out of Peter Goode's boat at the shelf off warrnambool today.
The crew of Snoop Dog had a good day off Port Fairy with half a dozen bluefin to 20kg, well done Bruce Ludeman, Matt Burgess, Trevor Uebergang, and Robbie Mallet.
Martin, Brian and Dubbo fishing off Warrnambool on the 1000+ metre mark, got these 3 tuna, heaps of birds working and heaps of tuna free jumping.
Happy to stand corrected but these might be the first tuna for the season caught off Warrnambool, whether they are or not - well done boys!
Barrels? Yes! These guys at Portland had a double hook-up on pretty much the same size barrels, releasing one and bringing this one in which weighed 95kg. Well done fellas! Richter lures on fire!
Matty got onto the crays in today's great weather, with a couple up to 3 kilos.
Bec Lane caught this pending state record tuna on 8 kilo line today off Port Fairy. Fishing with Dale, Steve from Warrnambool Holiday Park (the best fisherman-friendly caravan park in the district), and my old mate Anca who will probably paint Warrnambool red tonight, they caught plenty out at the shelf off Port Fairy.
Adrian and Jason were again bombarded with albacore out at the 1300m line west of the horseshoe off Portland.
Gerard Blythe pictured below with a tuna caught with Nick Murrell today off Port Fairy on an x-rap. They fished in 40-60m but they were finnicky.
Matt Hunt Fishing Services putting his happy clients onto plenty more tuna today off Portland!
Jack Auld's crew has some mixed emotions tonight, a great catch of tuna and albies but also got spooled by a barrel! Next time mate!
This 155kg bronze whaler was caught off Port Mac today - and these boys also got tuna and gummies.
Marty Ellul had a great family day out in the new tub off Port Mac!
A busy morning at Portland Harbour today!
05 April 2013
Adrian Azzopardi and Jason Gauci from Altona city boating and angling club, today caught 4 bluefin tuna to 32kg and one small albie to 6 kg on the 1200 meter mark at Portland.
Thanks boys for the report!
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Fishing on Roger Chadderton's Seaspray Charters today, Frank Blunch landed this 17.06Kg Blue Fin Tuna on 6kg Fly. The fish took 92 minutes to boat and is a pending World Record on Fly.
A few of the results from those tuna fishing at Portland today:
- Matt Hunt's happy crew - One of Red Hot Fishing Charter's happy customers - The result of Jack Auld and Paul Hourmouzis' 7-way hookup on albacore!
Mark Gercovich took his two young fellas Luke and Xavier to Nelson to catch their first mulloway. They ended up with 12 over the 2 days , most small but good fun for the kids, This was the best though @83cm.
Braydon Macpherson is pictured below with his first Bluefin from Port MacDonnell
Dave and Melissa Magilton fishing on Morning Glory with Rhookie also got onto them at Port Mac, catching 3 and tagging 1, pictured below about to go back, and a pic from an early double hook-up.
Scotty Gray had a quick look off Port Fairy and saw tuna in 40m but they were finnicky.
Kev McLoughlin got this nice feed of whiting off Torquay this morning.
04 April 2013
Again plenty of tuna and albies off Portland today. A few guys got them on stick baits and poppers as well as the more common trolling lures. One boat off Port Fairy got out to the shelf and didn't turn a reel but that's not to say they're not there, as he saw all the signs with plenty of birds. Portland is obviously on fire and will be the main focus for hundreds of boats this weekend, but Warrnambool and Port Fairy will be viable options for those wanting to avoid some of the crowds. Good luck to all, the forecast is fantastic!
Matt Hunt's results from today below, followed by a great summary of the day from Roger Chadderton's Seaspray Charters, including their 37kg tuna from today.
03 April 2013
Congratulations to Aleks, Alex, and Marco, today landing this impressive 131kg "barrel" at Portland. Caught out at the shelf, it took 3.5 hours to get in - without a gimble belt or harness! Well done boys, and exciting news for those looking at getting out in coming days with good weather forecasted.
Also plenty of school size tuna caught by most boats along with big albacore around 30kg.
The first GFAV sanctioned tournament in South-West Victoria for a long time is planned for April 26th-28th, with a briefing at the Warrnambool Clubrooms at 5pm 25th April. Fishing from Warrnambool Harbour or Port Fairy. Bluefin Tuna, Kingfish and Shark, Tag and Release and Most Meritorious capture categories. Lots of great prizes.
Portland was banked up to the round-a-bout early morning and while it was rough, the boats that got to the tuna grounds got tuna, and port mac fished well again also.
A couple of boats fished off port fairy, and some might not have gone far enough, as the crew from Catalina, John, Nick, & Tony got amongst them in 65m. Their results are pictured below.
On Cassius Cray we punched out to 50m off warrnambool, saw a heap of birds, copped a few green ones over the bow, thought we were in luck and have no doubt that tuna were there, but came home empty-handed other than about 10 couta!
31 March 2013
Again, not ideal conditions out there today, but that can often suit the tuna, and again there were more caught off Portland, in 70-100m and at the shelf in 400-600m, where Roger Chadderton of Seaspray Charters provided another good day for his clients.
30 March 2013
More tuna for those who got out today off Portland, pictured below is the catch from Sharkmen Charters.
30 March 2013
Andrew Westlake and crew had a good day, fishing in 36m off Tower Hill in today's marginal weather, coming home with 15 pinkies.
29 March 2013
Tim Vincent caught 7 fish in the Hopkins today, including 3 27-30cm bream and some salmon, caught on lures and bait.
29 March 2013
Here's a couple of Scott Gray's tuna, again from Port Fairy. The fish are well spread out from 38-50m and should be off Warrnambool as well (I'll be finding out on Monday hopefully!)
29 March 2013
Paul Dumesny in the Seacruiser 7000HT "Impression" trolling for tuna off Port Fairy, hooked and caught this 54.2kg thresher on an x-rap. Other boats also had tuna. They are not out very far.
Plenty of tuna caught off Portland again as well today.
Mark Stewart had a good day today on the tuna in 50m south of Port Fairy. They also saw and hooked a good mako which broke the trace, and then also saw a big thresher shark!
Picture from today of the Garmin 5012 - GSD24 with 1 kw transducer
29 March 2013
Brad Royce, pictured with a nice mulloway, is with Luke Smith at Nelson.
The second photo is Luke with the best of the 20 mulloway caught on a mixture of livies and plastics. This one was 12lb.
29 March 2013
Tony McIlroy got this tuna off Port Fairy on Tuesday fishing from his jet ski, from a double hookup, having to cut one off when the lines got tangled. Great effort!
28 March 2013
Video from a couple of days ago:
27 March 2013
Trav Murphy got this gummy off Childers Cove last night after dark.
27 March 2013
Just over a week ago Jake Donaldson & Shane Chipperfield caught these solid 30kg tuna off Robe in 25 Metres of water. One of the tuna took a gillies salmon lure.
26 March 2013
Cassius Cray went to Port Mac for our first tuna mission, saw some birds and dolphins in 70m, trolled a while for nothing, went to the shelf, got 2 from a random double hookup with no signs other than a few random birds, trolled all the way home into the 20 knot northerly, saw a random bust up in 70m with no birds and no hookups, then had tuna busting and birds working in 30m where we caught one more and headed in happy!
The 2 from out wide were 22-23kg and the one in close would've been lucky to be 14-15kg, 2 took x-raps and one the jaks rigid Reggie (barrel bullet)
Jimmy Taylor went fishing for some eels as gummy bait on the weekend and his apprentice Jeremy Sheehan caught a 45 cm brown trout in the moyne river in toolong!
Matt Chadderton and Dak Saunders bagged out on snapper to 2kg in 35 meters today off w'bool.
Kevin Mcloughlin from Torquay while chasing a thresher let go a few 7-gillers then landed this 20+kg gummy which he also released.
23 March 2013
Sharkmen Charters got onto the tuna today despite the weather!
Landbased, mulloway are a good option at the moment with reports of catches off the beaches at Warrnambool's Granny's Grave and Port Fairy's East Beach, and today I stumbled accross Josh while walking from Killarney to Warrnambool, who was fishing off Levi's Beach for his first time and had just caught this mulloway on a pilchard.
21 March 2013
4 year old Meilah with her first legal bream in the Hopkins last night at 34cm
21 March 2013
Keith Miller got this ripping 9kg snapper off Lorne on Tuesday.
21 March 2013
Without knowing the exact location of yesterday's 84kg tuna but understanding it to be caught in 1000m, a quick look at www.ripcharts.com shows the zero altimetry line along the 1000m line, as well as (on the second image) a good temp break in that area south of Portland.
I'm a novice at fully using the data provided by this great service, and for anyone like me interested there will be a presentation tonight at the Warrnambool Offshore & Light Game Fishing Club's general meeting about how to get the most out of ripcharts. A 12 month subscription to ripcharts will be on offer. 6:30pm at the Warrnambool Harbour Pavillion's LaBella Room. See www.wolgfc.com for more details.
20 March 2013
Red hot news today from Red Hot Charters, Simon Rinaldi and crew landing this 84kg tuna at the shelf off Portland! Well done fellas!
20 March 2013
Jo Rowland and Scott Gray bagged out snorkeling for crays off Port Fairy this morning.
John Carlin with Jamie Twaddle, got one tonight as well.
19 March 2013
Portland is really firing on all cylinders with the tuna! Pictured below are photos from Matt Hunt's MV Reggie, Randol Tucker, and the Airborne crew today.
18 March 2013
Thank you and congratulations to all involved with the Shipwreck Coast Fishing Classic. It concluded yesterday with record numbers, great fish caught, and plenty of prizes for many of the entrants at yesterday's presentations. Well done to Jean Rantall who was the winner of the Anglapro boat major prize.
Pictured is Nick Murrell with his heaviest kingfish which was also the heaviest scale fish overall.
Some more of the kids at the final weigh-in for the Shipwreck Coast Fishing Classic.
15 March 2013
Paul Dumesny fishing aboard "Impression" the Seacruiser 7000HT launched at Port Fairy and caught 4 tuna out at the shelf, west but not as far west as they were planning on having to go. Saw plenty that were lure-shy as well. The x-raps performed well.
Scott Neal and Peter Mahony had a great day with 2 makos of 72kg and 73kg fishing from Port Fairy.
This whiting caught in the Lady Bay at Warrnambool was a ripper, at 52cm and 0.95kg cleaned.
Some great catches from the kids again today!
15 March 2013
Final weigh-ins for the Shipwreck Coast Fishing Classic are 1:00pm sharp this Sunday (17th March), with the presentations immediately after. There are plenty of prize draws, including the major prize of the $18,000 Anglapro boat, plus many other fantastic prizes, that all entrants will be a chance to win, regardless of whether or not they've weighed a fish in.
So get in to Hooked on Rods'n'Reels on Raglan Parade and enter, forget about catching a fish - this is simply a great value $25 raffle! Gotta be there on Sunday to claim any prizes.
15 March 2013
Corey Gauci and Anthony Vella from Get Wet marine caught these tuna off Portland on the weekend.
Below are some details of the upcoming Kingston Offshore Fishing Competition on the Easter Weekend March 30 & 31st 2013.
Jo Rowland and Scott Gray picked up 10 kingfish of the same size yesterday.
12 March 2013
Myles Sandlant, 65 cm kingfish caught off warrnambool on monday
12 March 2013
Bruce Ludeman on Snoop Dog got this 3.85kg blue-eye trevalla out at the shelf from Warrnambool.
Neville Dance pictured below with a nice schoolie caught off Port Fairy.
Well done to Rhookie on Oceanic Phoenix catching this tuna of 22.55kg off Port Fairy at the edge of the shelf. Trav also lost a bigger one on the light gear that took a cast sluggo. Rhookie's took an x-rap bibbed lure.
Paul Dumesny weighed in a nice snapper from Port Fairy of 2.5kg and a 1.05kg flathead.
Here's some more of the fish that have been weighed in at the nightly Shipwreck Coast Fishing Classic weigh-ins at 7:00-7:30pm at the Warrnambool foreshore. This doesn't include the fish that have been weighed in at Hooked on Rods'n'Reels including a 10kg yellowtail kingfish caught by Nick Murrell and Scott Gray's 8kg kingy.
Anyone can enter the tournament at Hooked On Rods'n'Reels right through to Sunday and all $25 entrants go in the running for the major prize of the Anglapro boat with Suzuki outboard. Must be at the presentations on Sunday 1:00pm at the Warrnambool foreshore to claim any prizes.
Again good numbers of tuna off Portland today from Matt Hunt.
Terry Scicluna took his dad out off Port MacDonnell for a gummy.
11 March 2013
Great to see so many kids getting out in the outdoors and enjoying Australia's favourite pastime, recreational fishing! Here's a few photos of the young ones that weighed fish in for the shipwreck coast fishing classic. Watch this space for the full run-down in coming days.
John Dodoro had a productive day with a little mako and plenty of gummies (they released 9!), plus squid.
Just when Antony Ljubic thought he'd redeemed himself with a nice mako yesterday and at that stage the tournament-leading flathead of 1.00kg, his bad luck resumed today when his wife Catherine on her first ever fishing trip out-fished him with a lovely snapper, and to top this off a flathead was weighed in tonight at 1.05kg! Bad luck mate and well done Catherine!
The scenery on the way home from the weigh-in looking out over Penguin Island makes you realise just how lucky we are living in this part of the world!
11 March 2013
Butch Cassidy fishing aboard Snoop-dog with Bruce Ludeman and Smirky Dwyer caught his first mako shark today, which was a really nice fish of just over 50kg. They launched at Warrnambool and it was caught in roughly 85m of water south of Port Fairy.
Leigh Anderson on Cassius Cray got this 6 kilo gummy shark today to go with Mark Wilson's nice snapper, and we also caught and released a blue shark of approximately 50kg
Shannon Turland Rhook landed this nice mulloyway of narrowong beach fishing with his dad and Blake lane. It was 90cm and 14 pounds.
Here's a great Portland report from Roger Chadderton's Seaspray Charters website http://www.seasprayportland.com.au . Roger has also kindly sponsored 2 tuna charter vouchers in the Shipwreck Coast Fishing Classic, which will be a great prize for the winning entrant.
11 March 2013
Yesterday saw some great fish weighed for day 2 of the Warrnambool Offshore and Light Game Fishing Club's annual Shipwreck Coast Fishing Classic.
Well done to Jackson Wilson and his crew of Mark Evans and Stratos aboard the Richardson Marine built 5m platey "Barrel", landing a 103kg mako shark, fishing the 100-120m area off Port Fairy. The boys had some interesting moments getting it on board!
On Cassius Cray we had a good day on the edge of the shelf due south from Warrnambool, with Antony Ljubic and Peter Crinis both catching their first makos which were 35kg and 38kg. We then headed in to 120m and Luba got this nice 1kg flathead.
Andrew Westlake had a mixed bag yesterday with 3 Gummies, a couple of quality snapper, a big cuttlefish and plenty of squid.
Jason Monaghan aboard the Intruder got this gummy of about 15kg off port fairy yesterday.
Terry Roberts caught 2 makos of 70-80kg fishing the 100-120m area east of Warrnambool, the one pictured below weighing 73.9kg cleaned.
More tuna caught again yesterday off Portland and Port MacDonnell, pictured here is the catch from Matt Hunts crew
Continuing the good form on The Black Pearl, Butch Cassidy and Smirky Dwyer bagged out on gummies and pulled in 5 snapper up to 49cm and 55cm at Childers today. Squid was also taken.
09 March 2013
Below is the summary of the 7:00-7:30pm weigh-in for day one of the shipwreck coast fishing classic, aside from what got weighed in at hooked on Rods'n'Reels. A couple of the highlights were 2 ripper gummies, the best being Clayton Smith's at 18.45kgs (gutted). Gary Kermond's was a quality fish too.
Brian Littlejohn caught this lovely rainbow trout today, taking pole position for its category in the comp at this stage!
Matt burgess and Butch Cassidy again on the black pearl got another good feed of gummies, snapper and squid.
The cleaning tables were very busy at Portland - here's the catch of tuna up to 40kg from Matt Hunt Fishing Charters.
Tim Clark and the Fishin' Magician crew got amongst the Tassie Trumpeters off Portland - awesome work fellas!
Kev McLoughlin caught and released a dirty big wobbegong
Plenty of squid off Warrnambool in 30m
Remember, photos/reports can also be submitted straight from your mobile phone to 0408213113, include as much or as little detail as you like. Good luck over the long weekend everybody!
08 March 2013
2 days ago off Portland:
08 March 2013
Warrnambool report from Luke Smith: Caleb Ziegeler with our best gummy of the day at around 6kg. This was an unlucky fish as it was being handlined in at one stage due to the gummy we had just netted tangling up in three other lines. Our two other gummies were 4kg. We also managed 8 snapper. Four were between 50-55cm and the other four were 35-40cn. Great day on the water.
Paul Dumesney ducked out at lunchtime today for a few ocean delights!
08 March 2013
Recent days have seen good success for those anglers targeting the deep-water bottom fish. Pictured below are Greg Beatty and Colin Dobson who had a good day to the blue-eye and harpuka, along with one of Matthew Hunt's charter clients with a nice tassie trumpeter from Portland. There have been quite a few of these caught recently.
07 March 2013
Luke Smith had a good half-day's fishing off Warrnambool today, with the best snapper going 54cm and the best gummy being 6kg.
Good luck to all fishing the Shipreck Coast Fishing Classic!
Go to www.wolgfc.com for more details
06 March 2013
Tony Bell got this nice mako of 76kg offshore from Port MacDonnell today.
Matt Cini from www.reeltimefishing.com.au has had a couple of good days on the tuna, today catching over 20, between 20-25kg. Pictured is Matt's son Marlon with one of them.
Plenty more tuna caught again today, pictured here is one of about 30kg from Portland on Matt Hunt's charter.
Still plenty of pinkies off Warrnambool, here is Chris Fowler's nice catch from today.
Shane Cromie and the fellas got onto the Harpuka off Port Fairy fishing in 200-600m
05 March 2013
David Hughson caught this mulloway last night off the beach near the Flume at Warrnambool.
04 March 2013
Matt Boyce fished with Andrew Westlake yesterday afternoon, Snapper were schooled up and feeding in the 15m water east of Warrnambool. Few squid around also (photo 1 shows the after effects of one that inked Matt while being netted).
They also had a pod of 12-15 dolphins playing round the boat while anchored fishing for gummies later in the afternoon.
Managed a dozen pinkies, best over 40cm and 3 squid.
04 March 2013
Report from Seaspray Charters Portland: Report Mar 3. Great conditions and a crew keen to tangle with a shark. Fishing the eastern end of the bay we bagged good numbers of Snapper, large Calamari,Pike,Whiting and lost 1 Thresher Shark and landed 1 Thresher weighing around 80kg. Fresh Squid was the most successful bait this trip. There were also several Tuna taken in the 100m depth near the SA border.
03 March 2013
Penny Carr with a 1.4 meter Gummy caught at Peterborough in 38 meters.
Matt Hunt put his clients onto a few nice tuna at Portland today.
Still plenty of pinkies and squid off Warrnambool, pictured below is Luba and Hungry's catch from this arvo.
03 March 2013
Jessica Ljubic got this beautiful 46cm whiting in Lady Bay this morning. The girls also caught a couple of snapper. Dad caught none!
02 March 2013
Mick Mahney, Aaron Mitchell and the boys got amongst some good crays up to 2kg today at Port Fairy - a top effort from the boys considering the weather!
28 February 2013
Tim Treloar got this nice Redfin near the weir in the Merri River at Warrnambool.
25 February 2013
Jo Rowland and Nick Murrel also got onto a couple of kingies yesterday.
25 February 2013
Here is a bronzy caught yesterday 24/2/2013 off northshore near Portland. The fisherman was Jamie Scicluna along with father Pasquale Scicluna aboard pascoe's explorer. Estimated weight is around the 35kg mark. Caught on a 24kg shimano backbone and tld30.
25 February 2013
Tim Vincent and Lara Vincent have had some productive fun at the breakwater, including a 30cm snapper and a 35cm King George whiting to go with recent squid Tim's been catching.
24 February 2013
Cassius Cray made the early start this morning, at the shelf in time for the sunrise, and what was a fairly slow day was made worthwhile by Leigh Anderson's 42.6kg mako, along with some good scenery, good weather, pilot whales, humpbacks, seals and dolphins. Not that we went looking, we saw no signs of tuna - whereas off Portland off Bridgewater Bay in 50m they were plentiful but hard to entice to take a lure. It was worth noting a 1.5degree temperature break around the 60m line which might be worth a look, also the water out to about 45m is very green and beyond that is deep blue in colour.
Everyone that fished seemed to come home with a feed, including Rhookie on Oceanic Phoenix who continued his good form!
Butch Cassidy, Matt Burgess and Smirky Dwyer aboard The Black Pearl had another good day bagging out on gummy's up to 10 kgs and 5 snapper with the best being 38cm.
Scotty Gray continues his cracking port fairy form, with some thumping gummies and kingfish.
Ashley Dance had a lengthy battle on 15kg line with this mako that punched above its weight, coming in at 101kg. It was caught at the shelf off Warrnambool.
Peterborough produced again with plenty of table fish brought in by the likes of Marty Ellul and Dave and Melissa Magilton. Gerard Delaney and his crew had a great day too - his catch pictured below.
Scott Neal got this 132kg bronzie off Port Fairy today.
23 February 2013
Lewis Holland had a productive day off Warrnambool in today's fine weather. At Port Fairy there were flathead, snapper, sweep, salmon, gummies and a mako brought in. Portland saw tuna caught in 40 metres.
21 February 2013
This photo is from a couple of weeks ago, a 138.5kg bronze whaler caught at Portland by Ben Johnstone on 24kg line, taking him 1.5 hours. Well done Ben!
All $25 entries for the Shipwreck Coast Fishing Classic go in the draw to win this fantastic Anglapro Boat with Suzuki outboard.
Thanks to Tom Alston for sending in these photos of the mako they caught, along with a couple of tuna, from Port MacDonnell.
I would like to say a big thank you to Dale McClelland from the group "We Fish" who this week met with the Warrnambool City Council to offer his support and assistance in helping make the proposed safe boating harbour upgrade a reality, showing how it can be efficiently achieved and funded without the council having to sacrifice other projects. The enormous, widespread benefits to the whole community in terms of incoming tourism dollars along with creating a world-class marine precinct for everyone to enjoy is very exciting. I would urge everyone, both fisho's and simply anyone with an interest in the growth and improvement of Warrnambool, to get behind and support the push for this overdue project.
-Lucas Wilson
18 February 2013
Brett harrington, nathan locke, oby and rhooky bypassed the heat on oceanic pheonix catching plenty of squid and about 20 pinkies up to 48 cm
18 February 2013
Eddy and the crew on the Seacruiser 7000HT are back from their successful weekend diving mission from Apollo Bay where they got some sensational crayfish up to the elusive 10-pound park, pictured below is Ed with a 10-pounder and 8.5-pounder, in the old scale. (Roughly 4-4.5kg)
Jo Rowland and Scott Gray got a couple of crays this morning off Port Fairy, the second picture below.
18 February 2013
A couple of reports from last night: Ashley Dance and Shane Watts showed that there are still plenty of calamari squid at Killarney, pictured are 3 of the 7 they got on their brief evening session.
And Peter Bartlett got this Cray amongst some other smaller ones dropnetting off Warrnambool, launching at 8:30pm and back in by 9:30pm!
17 February 2013
The little makos really are plentiful off Warrnambool right now.
Jess and Mouse Bradshaw and the Rhook boys, fishing on Oceanic Pheonix picked up another one today on their late arvo trip.
17 February 2013
Ed got a few crays on his diving adventure including one which apparently may crack the elusive ten pound mark, no photos yet but in the meantime enjoy the other fishing reports!
Jono O'Sullivan got this mako today:
A few kings came in today for some, but they were pretty hard work, unlike the Suzuki which ran superbly all day!
This little mako was caught off Port Fairy, and there were at least 4 others again caught off Warrnambool. They are feeding on the plentiful squid all around the 40metre area and beyond, as Luba found out when he hooked one of about 1.5m on his squid jig, which does have a wire trace for the couta but was paired up with his whiting rod, which proved to be just under-gunned for today's opponent!
Shaun and Gerard got amongst the crays at Eagle Rock.
Aaron Mitchell and Paul Maddern got their bag of crays to 2 kg off Peterborough and some good sweep up to 40cm too.
Matt Hunt went well first up from a spell and got his clients 7 tuna from 12 hookups ranging from 22-28kg off Portland!
Nathan McSween had some fun in 36m out off Killarney, getting this mako on his own - well done mate!
Marty and Xav and crew had a ripper day on the water off Peterborough with 25 squid, three gummies, six Crays, snapper and a few sweep. Here's some of the catch:
16 February 2013
Matt Burgess, Cobber and Butch Cassidy had another successful day on The Black Pearl, heading down to Childers and bagging out on gummys up to 10kg and 7 snapper with 1 at 55cm and 3 more over 40 cm.
Mark Bushell got a 62cm snapper so there are some nice ones about.
16 February 2013
Plenty of action offshore at Warrnambool today with several small makos, gummies, snapper and squid.
Pictured below are Luba's gummy and snapper from his quick arvo session on Vomit, Jack and John Downie with Rhookie aboard Oceanic Phoenix got a mako and 6 gummies (the first gummy was lost boatside only to get caught in the berley line - luck was on their side today!), and Justin Nowell's crew got 2 makos and snapper and squid.
Aaron Mitchell got a 1.8kg and 1.2kg Cray at Peterborough. (I took the family to the beach at Killarney and grabbed a Cray and a couple of abs as well)
15 February 2013
Now we know this isn't a south-west report, but our great customers Dave and Melissa Magilton, on their last day of a severely weather-restricted trip to Bermagui had their unwavering persistence rewarded with this nice striped marlin this morning, and we just wanted to congratulate them and share in their joy! Well done guys!
The marlin, their first ever, went 50kg.
Peter Goode, on the same trip with his boat Bard'up, caught a 90.8kg mako and his crewmate Craig Warfe got a 6.5 kg dolphinfish.
12 February 2013
Here's Jo Rowland with a 3.7 kg salmon caught at Pt Fairy on Sat.
12 February 2013
Shannon Francis and his son Arch have been having some good recent fresh water form in the Merri River, Arch getting this ripper bream amongst plenty of others, a Redfin from out of nowhere that nearly took the rod with it, and dad bringing home the bacon with a nice brown trout.
11 February 2013
Gerard and Shaun caught 3 gummy sharks and 5 snapper off childers cove on Tuesday
11 February 2013
With some adverse weather and a few local fisho's travelling away at the moment, reports have been a little slow. However, Nick Murrell shared this sensational bit of footage from their amazing local session on Thursday night after work, catching 15 kingfish, and a couple of tuna using a range of techniques, and getting some great footage on the goPro camera strapped to his head. Well done fellas and thanks for sharing.
If anyone else has any reports at any time they are always welcomed, feel free to submit via the button on the RHS of this page, or if you have a photo on your phone, simply send it through to 0408213113 with as much or little detail as you like.
There is the odd tuna being caught at Portland but fairly patchy, whereas Port MacDonnell has had consisent catches in recent days.
Here's some interesting info and website link regarding the tagging and tracking of mako sharks:
Migration paths and residence times of shortfin makos in the Victorian recreational fishery
The Southern Shark Ecology Group at SARDI Aquatic Sciences obtained funding last year from the Victorian Department of Primary Industries Recreational Fishing Licence Trust Account Large Grants Program to undertake a project titled, "Innovative ways to ensure the future sustainability of the recreational fishery for shortfin makos in Victoria". This project aims to better understand the movement dynamics of juvenile and adult shortfin makos that form a valuable component of the Victorian recreational and game fishery. The project also aims to develop a Code of Practice for sustainable handling and release of pelagic sharks to promote the adoption of sustainable fishing practices. This project forms part of a national approach by shark scientists in South Australia, Tasmania, and New South Wales to develop regional projects on recreational and game fisheries for shortfin makos in Australia. More broadly, we hope the project will have flow-on benefits to local businesses and the wider community (especially in country areas) whose seasonal prosperity is enhanced by having sustainable recreational and game fisheries for large pelagic fishes and sharks.
In December 2012, four shortfin makos ranging in sizes from 1.2 to 2.6 m were satellite tagged off Portland with the assistance of Shane Sanders and Brodie Carter from the Portland Sport and Gamefishing Club. The sharks were hooked on conventional game fishing tackle and then transferred across to the research vessel for tagging. Daily updates of the new sharks from Portland (Baitwaster, Zali, Judd and Spog) can be viewed at: http://www.wildlifetracking.org/index.shtml?project_id=308 As part of the Victorian project, four more satellite tags are scheduled to be deployed off Bass Strait and Warrnambool in 2013. Another mako called ‘Morry’ was also tagged with the assistance of Dennis and Kerry Heineke off Port MacDonnell on Shaka-Zura last year. Morry has just completed a large migration of >14,000 km from Port MacDonnell to the NE Indian Ocean in less than a year and is currently swimming quickly back across the Great Australian Bight to be home in time for the Port Mac tuna comp this year! Keep and eye out for an upcoming article in Bluewater magazine about our mako research.
Photos of the tagging process below
Nick Murrell's tuna/kingfish double
06 February 2013
Butch Cassidy and Matt Burgess headed after work on The Black Pearl for a quick fish. Bagged out on snapper up to 38 cm and throwing back the same amount. Very productive 2 1/2 hours.
06 February 2013
Good numbers of pinkies came in at Warrnambool today, with some other highlights being a 48cm whiting, a big morwong, and Jed Turland caught this little mako in 45m.
Still also tuna up to 30kg off Port MacDonnell, along with them being sighted in the Portland Harbour.
04 February 2013
Roger Chadderton from Seaspray Charters had his clients catching snapper today at Portland, when one line came up with a nice surprise, in the form of this 2kilo crayfish!
04 February 2013
Luke Smith fishing today with Justin Nowell in 43m off Warrnambool caught this little mako of 15-20kg, as well as some pinkies to 47cm
04 February 2013
Bruce Ludeman, Matt Burgess and Butch Cassidy aboard Snoopdog bagged out on Gummies in 50 metres off Warrnambool on Sunday. Biggest being around 8kg.
04 February 2013
Paul Dumesney had good success with gummies to 17kg from Port Fairy on Saturday, while Cameron Ordner fishing with Andrew Buck had a top day out at the shelf from Port Fairy with 2 makos at 60-70kgs (released one) caught by Andrew's 7 year-old son Aj which is a fantastic effort. They also got some good bottom fish with 5 blue-eye and 3 blue grenadier.
Aaron Mitchell got this 1.8kg Cray off port fairy yesterday also.
03 February 2013
More tuna caught at Port Mac yesterday.
03 February 2013
Anyone looking at targeting a mako shark, I hope this video is helpful. Filmed at the latest general meeting of the Warrnambool Offshore & Light Game Fishing Club, it really highlights the great value club members are getting, and anyone looking to get involved can visit www.wolgfc.com
And before anyone finds me to state the bleeding obvious, yes, the author of this fishing report needs to watch it a few more times and take some notes...
01 February 2013
The Warrnambool Offshore & Light Game Fishing Club has some fantastic events coming up in the next few months, for members and also open to the general public. New members are always welcome, and $20 gets your family a pro-rata membership for the remainder of the season (normally $40 for the whole year).
Ashley Dance fished off the beach at Killarney last night, initially trying for some salmon but ending up getting onto a few calamari squid.
Sean Blake, earlier in the week fishing off Port Fairy, wasn't actually targeting tuna, but saw some terns in 30m of water and upon casting a plastic was rewarded with this fine specimen, a 28.5kg southern bluefin tuna!
30 January 2013
Fishing the bottom offshore from Warrnambool continues to be productive, here's Richo, Hugh Leishman and Andrew Calvert with a couple of nice gummies and some morwong a couple of days ago.
29 January 2013
The Harkin boys had some great land-based surf fishing for mulloway at Beachport a little over the South Australian border on the long weekend.
28 January 2013
Nick Threlfall, Harry Anders, and Burnsy, got some sensational harpuka and blue-eye, deep sea bottom fishing out at the shelf from Port MacDonnell.
28 January 2013
Jade Bellman and Lewis Holland had another good day off Warrnambool with these gummies and snapper.
There were apparently also plenty of mackerel around the 40m area, dolphins and birds, and at least one thresher shark was hooked.
27 January 2013
Terry Scicluna got a couple of tuna in 40m off Port MacDonnell, seeing them busting out to 100m, with some larger ones amongst them as well. He also got Adam onto his first mako of 37.5kg too, well done boys!
27 January 2013
Rhookie had an active after lunch session on oceanic Phoenix, with 2 gummies, over 30 squid, some mackerel, some couta and enjoyed watching mouse and smithy battle a big ray for over an hour!
On Cassius Cray it was a case of another Sunday out at the shelf for another 2 makos lost boatside... (But at least we got some more teeth marks)
Sophie caught this 590gm ripper in the Moyne today.
26 January 2013
Roger Chadderton of Seaspray Charters in Portland got his customers onto a couple of 27kg and 28.5kg tuna today, in 55m, caught on 8-inch skirted lures.
26 January 2013
Adam Wright reported in this nice bag of snapper taken in the bay at warrnambool this morning. Plenty of slimy mackerel and squid around also
25 January 2013
Jade Bellman and Lewis Holland got a little mako and some other table fare off Warrnambool last night.
24 January 2013
The shelf at Port MacDonnell delivered some nice blue eye, teriyaki, gemfish and perch for Warrnambool anglers Bruce Ludeman, Clarkey and Dancey Snr, and also pictured is Tony Bell with a nice Port Mac Gem fish.
There were apparently more tuna today off Cape Bridgewater and Cape Nelson.
24 January 2013
Ryleigh McVilly fishing out of Port Fairy this afternoon got a beautiful flathead to go with their nice haul of snapper and a good gummy too. Alongside the cleaning tables were also a mako frame and a very large snapper frame.
23 January 2013
More tuna caught up to 30kg in close at Portland today.
22 January 2013
A 27kg tuna was caught in close at Portland today.
Eddy had the Seacruiser 7000HT out on Sunday off Port Fairy and got a nice mixed bag of gummy, snapper and flathead.
22 January 2013
Here's some footage of Cassius Cray's day on Sunday, when we lost 2 makos plus got some underwater footage of a baby one swimming around the boat:
And here is a video from last Thursday night's Warrnambool Offshore & Light Game Fishing Club's general meeting where Dale McClelland and Ben Scullin outline some points regarding available funding for the proposed Warrnambool harbour upgrade, and why the council needs to get on board:
21 January 2013
Hot off the Press (thanks Ashley Dance).... Tony Bell and Mark Moody from Remarkable Charters in Port MacDonnell have got the ball rolling with a 5 way hook up on bluefin in 35 meters of water south of the Port Mac light house!!!!....... Mark Moody now has some great early season form!!!.... Is it safe to say they are on yet????
21 January 2013
Mixed results yesterday. Mick Mahney got these nice whiting at Killarney, Matt Burgess and butch Cassidy on the black pearl went down to Childers for 6 nice snapper to 45cm and 3 squid, and the Magiltons didn't get a fish but were inundated with heaps of squid, see below.
On Cassius Cray out at the shelf off Warrnambool, we lost a nice mako after half hour when it spat the hook, had another very small one swim around the boat for 10 minutes without taking a bait, and then got another chance on a good one which we traced and missed the gaff shot and just as we were about to get another chance to grab the trace again, the line snapped at the swivel where it had looped on itself. Great day although home fishless!
21 January 2013
Tim Vincent caught this redfin and a rainbow in a dam near Eildon and caught some salon, mullet and even a crab in the Hopkins!
19 January 2013
Tate ashworth and jarrod king with some 3.5-4kg kings from Thursday, and Jarrod king with his first gummy of around 8-10kg. Both from Port Fairy.
18 January 2013
Sean got himself on the board with some much appreciated help from the locals, getting this nice kingfish last night.
16 January 2013
Colin Dobson and Greg Beatty got amongst some nice bottom fish out at the shelf yesterday, including this impressive 10 kilo harpuka.
15 January 2013
L-R Peter Kavanagh, Bruce Ludeman, and Tim Goodall enjoyed a trip out to the shelf today aboard Snoopdog, getting some blue-eye and harpuka.
15 January 2013
Tom Pendergast with a gummy caught off port fairy this morning in 40m.
15 January 2013
This great perch caught on the weekend went 2.6kg
13 January 2013
Butch Cassidy, Matt Burgess, Smirky Dwyer and Dom Dwyer had a successful morning on The Black Pearl with 12 snapper up to 45cm, gummy at 6kg at 3 squid.
Jye Wilson, fishing aboard Time Out Charters, got this nannygai and 48cm snapper.
12 January 2013
Another bluefin catch locally yesterday with Cameron Ordner getting this 30 kilo tuna on 10kg line, along with a fair brute (14.8kg) of a kingfish as well from David Jehu. It'll be interesting to see if this is just a lone school passing through or if it is all about to start, a bit ahead of schedule!
Neil Matheson caught a couple of really nice king George whiting this evening at Peterborough too.
11 January 2013
After some reports a couple of days ago of tuna being seen at Port MacDonnell, we have our first confirmed 2013 South-West Vic catch of a 19kg bluefin yesterday. And so it begins....
And to quote Scott Gray from today: "the bait balled up, the kings busted up, and it was another 2 hours of mayhem!"
And below that is a photo of a couple of nice crays from Paul in the Seacruiser 7000HT
11 January 2013
Scotty Gray continues his ripping kingfish form; calamari continue to be plentiful; get in early and enter the shipwreck coast fishing classic, see www.wolgfc.com for more details.
Also, there will be a "Shark handling night" next Thursday 17th Jan at the Warrnambool Harbour Pavillion from 6:30pm where you can learn how to use a flying gaff, practice on hay bales, plus preserving your catch and more. See www.wolgfc.com for more details, this night is the Warrnambool Offshore & Light Game Fishing Club's monthly general meeting. New members welcome, it's only $20 to join for the 2nd half of the club year now, membership forms will be there on the night or go to www.wolgfc.com
10 January 2013
Phil McCosh got this magnificent 40cm bream in the Moyne River this morning.
09 January 2013
Some footage from Ashley Dance's sheleft video glasses of their 101kg mako on Thursday caught by Kevin McLoughlin with Rhookie on the flying gaff. Ashley is busy as skipper and trace man hence a fair bit of his head moving around, but we think it's great work boys! http://youtu.be/-0xinYvpmjI
09 January 2013
Tim Vincent has done well land based lately, with this nice squid at the breakwater, 3 salmon and 2 mullet at the Hopkins, and hooking bream to 1.5kg which he lost at the surface.
08 January 2013
Young fellow Rhys Mclean with a whopping squid from the port Cambell peir out fished them all. It fell victim to a yamashita 2.0 in mackerel colour and gave him a good fight on light line.
06 January 2013
11-year-old Jye Wilson caught these 38 and 32cm bream in the Merri River, continuing his great form!
06 January 2013
Here's a quick video of some of the footage we got catching the kingies last week, forgot the goPro unfortunately, but there's a bit on the handheld.
06 January 2013
Here's a photo of the tail of the oceanic thresher shark caught at the continental shelf on Thursday night (scroll down further for more details) to give you a bit more idea as to the size of it.
06 January 2013
Mitch Rowe and Peter Goode went off Port Fairy yesterday and got a gummy at 9.9kg clean, 8 good snapper to 2.75kg, and a flathead of 1.85kg.
05 January 2013
Darren Barber fishing from Carpenter Rocks caught a few gars and a nice snapper.
04 January 2013
Jacko and Mark escaped this afternoon's heat and ducked out in the little Richardson Marine-built platey "Barrel" down the coast off Warrnambool for their bag of nice crays.
(Ladies - try and focus on the crayfish)
04 January 2013
Check out this huge 160kg thresher shark caught out of Port Fairy by Scott Neal aboard "Hooked Up" skippered by Max Atkins. Well done boys!
04 January 2013
This photo is from this morning at the glorious Warrnambool boat ramp. Hopefully council will take heed of the wide community support for the proposed safe boating harbour upgrade. Continue to have your say as decisions will be made in the near future - lets not miss another opportunity for what is a no-brainer for everyone in this great city, not just boaters.
04 January 2013
Here's Richardson Marine's own Matty with his 3.1kg cray from Warrnambool yesterday, they got another one similar size in their bag of 4.
03 January 2013
And to top it all off, some REAL kings were caught by Scotty Gray!
Peter Bartlett also got these crays dropnetting at the end of the day after catching 3 gummies earlier on.
03 January 2013
A good days fishing was had by all, including Jacko and kano's 8 early morning kings, Bruce and crew's nannygai, Gerard's 40kg mako, Kevin the shark whisperer's 100kg mako with dancey and Rhookie to go with their big flatties and school shark, plenty of pinkies and not to mention Cassius Cray who got out after work for half a dozen kingies, losing just as many in an evening's fun, and Camo who bagged out on blue-eye as well.
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Matt and James Chadderton caught snapper to 3 kg off Portland.
03 January 2013
Jacko and Kane are on the go with a few kingies this morning!
Luke Smith, Jason Alberts and his son Sam got 15 whiting in 2 hours.
01 January 2013
Aaron Mitchell, Mick Mahney and Dan Weymouth got these crays at Killarney between 1kg and 1.5kg and some big squid.
Duncan Mcpherson and crew's latest catch of crays from Big Hill near Lorne is the second picture below.
31 December 2012
Peter Goode got this 40.4 kg mako shark on 15kg line, fishing solo today off Port Fairy.
Also, here's a little footage of our 2 kingies:
31 December 2012
Eddy got 12 sweep off the rocks at Peterborough with Johnny Smith and Tom Whitehead. Andrew Westlake had another top day, the crew coming home with 18 snapper and some beautiful calamari and aero squid.
31 December 2012
Kevin Mcloughlin continues his impressive shark fishing form down Torquay way with this hammerhead, caught as part of a double hook-up with a mako as well, fishing solo! The mako was lost.
Gerard Delaney got this beauty of a morwong locally, which weighed in at 5.8kg. Ashley Dance had his first crack at dropnetting and successfully caught a few crays. Numerous reports of makos seen in local waters also.
31 December 2012
Couple of yellowtail kingfish 67cm and 72cm 2.7kg and 3.6kg for Antony Ljubic and Leigh Anderson, and some reported much bigger ones around as well. Ben Malseed got some nice crays off Warrnambool on his fleeting Victorian visit also!
30 December 2012
Andrew Westlake had a great day on the gummies with a 22kg, 15kg and 8kg model being the crew's highlights.
30 December 2012
Crayfish seem to be the theme of the month and whether you're dropnetting like Peter & Helen Bartlett with their nice haul today, or diving like the boys from Richardson Marine in the below photo, or just happen to walk across a 4.2kg monster in the rip in port Phillip bay its all good!
28 December 2012
Here's a video from yesterday's dive off Warrnambool, taken on the video camera mask from www.sheleft.com.au
A few nice snapper have been caught off Warrnambool, including the one pictured below from Jason Monaghan, caught in 36m.
28 December 2012
Darcy graham fished off warrnambool yesterday with brothers Travis and Shane and landed one schoolie, 2 small gummies released 1 big female and a 60 cm snapper.
27 December 2012
Some gummies came in today, along with some nannygais, and kane got some pinkies, and we got our bag of crays. Most came home with a feed.
26 December 2012
This is a ripper cray caught off Logan's on the sundowner of just over 3 kg
24 December 2012
In order below are a video from our session where we missed a kingie but got a few crays; Marty and crew's mixed bag from Peterborough of pinkies, Cray, whiting, sweep and calamari; a thumping 8kg snapper also from Peterborough caught by Jye McKenna, and the McPherson family's Christmas menu down Torquay way.
Merry Christmas from us at Richardson Marine and thank you to all who provide reports and photos, keep sending them via the website or by mobile to 0408213113 cheers!
24 December 2012
Justin Nowell and a few boys had a big night off the beach near Narrawong, with salmon to 4kg, a 60+kg wobbegong, gummy shark, big bream, whiting, and a ripper mulloway!
24 December 2012
The 2013 Annual Shipwreck Coast Fishing Classic promises to be bigger and better than ever. For entry forms go to Hooked on Rods'n'Reels or online at www.wolgfc.com
24 December 2012
Plenty used yesterday's magnificent weather to gather up some seafood for Christmas and there will be plenty of happy families! Bruce Ludeman and the crew of Snoopdog got their bag of 8 dropnetting. Eddy on the Seacruiser had their staff breakup and got their bag of crays diving, we got a few crays on Cassius Cray but cut the diving short with some not so productive fishing.
A few makos have been caught, pictured is Trevor Holder with a small one caught off Warrnambool aboard the Richardson Marine built Suzuki-powered platey "The Russian", one came in at Port Fairy on Saturday, and Terry Scicluna aboard Whitewash got another one of 58kg at Port MacDonnell.
Peter Bartlett caught 10 gummies off Warrnambool, and Peter Goode had a mixed bag of Nannygai, pinkies and a gummy as well.
24 December 2012
Some cracking estuary perch have been caught, Quy took a break from the calamari and hit the upper Hopkins for this 45cm fish, and also pictured is a 65cm fish from Nelson.
22 December 2012
Jase Davies just caught this nice snapper off Warrnambool
22 December 2012
Kevin McLoughlin got these 2 sharks, a mako and a bronze whaler, off Torquay.
Tim Vincent and Jye Wilson caught some nice bream in the Merri River at Warrnambool.
20 December 2012
Here's 11-year-old Jye Wilson with a Rainbow Trout from Lake Pertobe.
19 December 2012
Calamari off Killarney beach, whiting off the breakwater and Scotty Gray onto the big crays today too, all in the interests of putting a nice feed on the Christmas table!
18 December 2012
Luke Smith got these nice whiting this morning off Warrnambool on his quick pre-work session.
17 December 2012
Thank you Jayden Atkins who has just come back from a fishing trip in Weipa, Qld (ie Cape York) with his dad Brian Atkins, for sending in this report - and making us all jealous!
"We have just come back from a fishing trip in Weipa, Qld and we have caught some of the best sports fish in aus. We caught Barra, Queenfish, GT's(Giant Trevally) Cobia under manta rays, spanish mackerel, black marlin and much more. So here are some pics and i will detail them the size and what we caught them on.
Thanks
Jayden"
Queenfish 103cm caught on a lively lures mad mullet
GT on a rapala skitter pop popper
Dads Cobia on a gulp jerk shad 7"
Big Barra(head to the left)99cm caught on a rapala x-rap hot steel colour
other barra 94cm caught on a live mullet
Black marlin on a halco laser pro lure over 250lb.
Thanks again Jayden, great report and photos, what a trip!
17 December 2012
17 December 2012
Darcy Barling got these nice bream from Yambuk yesterday, while the 2nd photo is Mick Mahney fishing with Quy from Hooked on Rods'n'Reels with some large estuary perch from the Hopkins River.
15 December 2012
Here's Duncan Macpherson from Torquay with a couple of nice crays taken Friday at big hill near Lorne.
15 December 2012
Nathan McSween got this full bag of whiting and a few pinkies this morning at Killarney.
Pictured below is Travis Graham with one of his 2 gummies caught yesterday aboard Oceanic Phoenix off Warrnambool.
14 December 2012
Jacko, Joe and Jamie took the little Richardson Marine platey accross the rip in Port Phillip Bay for their first scallop mission after work this afternoon and got 200 of the tasty treats!
On Cassius Cray we had a productive morning with a 2.3kg morwong and a 2.85kg snapper, along with a nice cray and a feed of abalone as well, all off Warrnambool, the fish being caught in 40m off diamond rock.
