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| geelong, corio bay & beyond with geoff wilson |
Dated: 3 September, 2012
 | Dylan Barnes 12 and his Dad Jeremy didn’t have to travel far from St Helens to catch these beauties from Corio Bay.
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The grass in the next paddock often appears greener, or so it would seem.
One of Geelong’s most successful father and son Snapper fishing duos; Jeremy Barnes and his 12 year old son Dylan, who evidently have little trouble taking multiple catches of Snapper in Corio Bay, heard of much publicized recent catches if Snapper off Frankston and headed over there on Sunday morning.
Alas, like others anchored up in the alleged hot spot, they didn’t turn a reel.
Cutting their losses, they motored back to St Leonards where they caught a couple of dozen whiting between them during the afternoon
Bellarine Peninsula
On Saturday morning, Bill Pilipasides fished the edge of the West Channel off St Leonards near the No 8 marker where he took a bag limit catch of whiting in the flood tide.
Also fishing St Leonards over the weekend was Daniel Stranger with clients aboard Geelong Charters and Fishing Trips who had spent several fruitless hours fishing both sides of Port Phillip Heads for whiting.
The move to St Leonards paid them back though with 57 whiting putting smiles on the faces of all concerned.
 | Dylan Barnes 12 with part of the whiting catch off St Leonards.
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Freshwater
Simon Werner, along with fourteen year old twins Jayden and Kassidy, fished Wurdi Boluc Reservoir once more over the weekend but pickings were lean and their tally of two Brown Trout of less than a kilogram apiece, both taken on mudeye fished under a float, saved the day.
On Saturday, Steve Andrews took a run out to Deep Lake near Derrinallum, and with a 1.7 kg Rainbow Trout on the bank in short order he was hopeful of more to come. Unfortunately though, every other fish he took after that were newly released yearlings that didn’t meet his expectations.
From around 10.00 am last Thursday, Brad Andrews fished Lake Tooliorook where he found a spot on the bank that was sheltered from the wind, and using Berkley Powerbait, was into the Rainbow Trout action in short order.
However, his first four fish were only about a kilogram apiece. With one more fish for his bag limit of five he was hoping for something larger: Not in vain as it turned for topped off his bag with a beautiful hen that weighed 2.3 kg.
Doug Lucas reports on an interclub outing between the Camperdown and Purrumbete Angling Clubs on Lake Purrumbete over the weekend. While the tally of fish was impressive they were all Brown Trout, the biggest at 1.48 kg was taken by Jason Andross trolling a bibbed Rapala. The one solitary Rainbow Trout taken weighed 1.2 kg and was taken by Doug Swayne on a mudeye.
Doug also reports that John Walsh fished Lake Bullen Merri on Friday where he took four Brown Trout trolling pink Lofty’s Cobra lures, the biggest of which weighed 1.68 kg.
 | Adamas client Brent White with one of the gummy sharks taken off Barwon Heads (Photo Adamas Charters)
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Offshore
With good weather over the weekend, Rod Lawn of Adamas Charters took his clients out into 40 metres of water off Barwon Heads where unwanted draughtboard shark kept them occupied at the bait board. However, their persistence finally paid off when they boated several Gummy Shark that included a fairly large pregnant female which was released.
For variety, Rod also tried a drift in 55 metres of water off Collendina where they took a number of good size Tiger Flathead, the biggest of which was around the kilogram mark.
Portland
Down Portland way Bob McPherson reports that with good weather over the weekend, offshore enthusiasts took good catches of flathead and School Shark making up the bulk of the catch, some of the latter would have been close to 20 kg or so said Bob.
Paul asks:
Geoff, it seems that just about every fishing magazine I pick up promotes the use of some lure or other while most of the fishing I am familiar with involves the use of bait. Am I missing something?
Paul, most fish are caught on bait as you have observed, and which is self evident in almost every fishing situation encountered except for some obvious and notable exceptions.
For the greater part, fishing magazines rely on advertising, and in comparatively recent years the advertising of various artificial lures has grown exponentially along with supporting copy and photographs: For that reason it always pays to look for any possible commercial bias.
You may email me on geoffw10@optusnet.com. au or visit www.fishingknotsandrigs.com
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Geoff Wilson
Fishnet Pro Angler
Email : geoffw10@optusnet.com.au
Fishing reports may be sent by e-mail, or mail to Geoff Wilson:
PO Box 384,
Geelong 3220. |
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