Thought I'd start a new thread for plasticsand lure fishing in general. So here it is!


Had an interesting session at northshore in corio bay last night, was hoping to get onto some pike that are around there at the moment but started off fishing the phosphate pier to get two nice flatty's, one that went 43cm.


It got dark and was quiet for ages so put my waders on and went for a walk on the rocks. Some good sized fish were jumping out of the water along the rocks so i quickly put on a metal pilchard lure and started cast and retrieve. The fish jumping got alot thicker and closer to me and i noticed a big swoosh in the water occasionaly. some fish were jumping almost within a rods distance of me. I didn't think much of it and things went quiet and no hits on the lure. As I walked back splashing in the water as I went, the disturbed water began to light up! It was very cool and I took my time walking back splashing around heaps watching the lights I think it was to do with this algae which I'd seen there the day before.

when i got back to my mates they told me they had seen something that looked like a dolphin or shark but was too hard to see it in the dark. I had just been in waist deep water with whatever it was.
Was one of the more interesting sessions I've had lately.

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well I got onto a pike at northshore rocks finally!! was super wrapped to get one. caught on a laser pilchard lure (which I later lost). I tried every different kind of retrieve I could think of to get a hit and even scored a small flatty before getting the pike. word from other fisherman there is that big pinkies have been busting people off alot lately.

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Nice one mate, You have done well...

I should have called this thread " Blinky's plastics and lure fishing"
Got these nice frogs in about half an hour of each other in Northshore area of Corio bay, just on sunset on a run up tide. The big one went 44cm and was surprising to find it was male! Was first time using heavy 9gram jighead and worked a treat. The heavy jighead enabled more casting distance and a more rapid or agressive lure action on retreive..

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You will have to let me know the next time your heading out.. Ill be hitting up Barwon river for a quick fish before work tomorrow... Hope i do half as well, 2 days ago only got a few undersize KGW and the biggest Banjo i have caught to date...

I was silly not to get a pic of my catch yesty but was happy with it so I must digress....

Spent 1hr on the Point Lonsdale Pier with a plastic on and landed a 3kg Salmon on 8lb gear .... was an awesome battle and can only claim 20% of my success from skill and the other 80% from being fortunate.

Used a 3inch paddle tail squidgy with a fairly light lig head. Thinking back I would have caught more with a jerk tail so as to work the water column a little better.

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nice one duke! would have been hairy lifting it out of the water or did you land it on the beach? do you fish there often? myself and chameleon went there a few weeks back but had no luck really. chameleon got one flatty and thats all we got for an hour or two.

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Shallow inlet this weekend. all on the plastics

I know it's not in the bay like you boys butanyway.
I went on a holiday with my girlfriend last week and did abit
Of soft plastic and gar fishing, I landed a 2ish kg salmon
On white 3imch minnow and got busted off by couta way to
Many times.
Trying my luck with the gars I didn't land any but when I was gouge
To call it quits my girlfriend said 'your floaty thing just went down'
Picking up the rod and it was on! I thought shit hot a salmon on a
Gar line! Nah! When I lifted it onto the jetty it was a
Tiny little jewy maybe a kilo!! I was stoked!
It was at Beachport in SA btw!

Stopes in at pt fairy on the way home and just lost more
Plastics on couta!
Viz at or fairy was unbelievable tho!

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your a jew magnet paddy!

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and snapper magnet!

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Haha nah man just lucky. They get heaps of Jews there anyway.
I'll post a pic when I can and if I remember lol

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I went out to Werribee wreck (about 20klms from the Werribee South boat ramp) last Sunday and landed around 40 legal flatty's and about 50 in total in about 5 hours, I've never had anything like it before, we ended up keeping 20, 90% were on Nuclear Chicken, haven't really tried plastics that much but all of the fresh bait came home with us for burley next time.
Other guys I met at the ramp whilst cleaning the fish had 60 between 4 of then and they said they caught around 80 in 6 hrs, up near Kirks point, mostly with Nuclear chicken, go figure

wowzers!! better hope the pro's dont find your spot like what happened to my fav flatty spot recently.

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