Tackle World Cranbourne & Mornington Weekly Fishing Report For January 10th 2019

Jayson Turner from Pro Red Fishing charters jumped into Western Port last week chasing some big sharks and found some quality gummies as well as some solid 7 gillers.

Shaun Furtiere from Think Big Fishing Charters has been getting stuck into some solid gummies over the past week with his customers fishing the southern end of Western Port.

COWES

Matt Tormey fished out from Cowes this week and landed this fantastic gummy shark using salmon chunk for bait during low tide.

TORTOISE HEAD

Steve Johnson from Ace Fishing Charters has had a lot of success with his customers fishing the Tortoise Head area of Western Port over the past week.

Julian Rennie headed out on a solo mission fishing around Tortoise Head and landing a nice bag of whiting using pipi’s and squid for bait in just 3.5 metres.

HANNS INLET

Young Charli Edwards caught a dozen nice whiting using pipi and squid cocktails in a quick 2 hour trip fishing the Hanns inlet area.

STONY POINT

Bill Adamopoulos‎ headed out from Stony Point armed with squid, muscle and pipi’s and had an entertaining session catching some nice whiting, flatties and slimey mackerel.

HASTINGS

Jack Anderson and his dad have had a couple of cracking sessions on the whiting fishing out from Hastings this week.

LYSAUGHTS

Chris Preston and Michael Kilpatrick had a ripper session on the whiting on Sunday fishing in 15 metres off Lysaughts, the guys also found some nice pinkies as well.

EAGLE ROCK

Bruce Ashcroft got into a great bag of King George whiting around Eagle Rock this week in 6 metres.

TOP END

Andrew Ketelaar fished the Top End of Western Port this week and found a lovely gummy shark in shallow using fresh squid for bait.

SAN REMO

John Moore headed out off San Remo finding some cracking slimey’s, flathead and whiting fishing the incoming tide in 5 metres.

CLEELAND BIGHT

Mornington staff member Mitch Ryland headed down to Phillip Island on Saturday for a quick snorkel at Cleeland Bight. Mitch saw lots of whiting and managed to spear this 49cm rock flathead.

PHILLIP ISLAND

David Albarenque along with his mates Paul, Keith and Kane have had some ripper sessions around Phillip Island and offshore chasing big gummies over the last couple of weeks. Fresh yakkas and trevally have been the best baits, well done lads!

THE RIP

Matt Cini from Reel Time Fishing Charters has had some success on the kings early this week with this solid 13kg model brought aboard by customer Clayton, well done guys!

RYE

Jamieson caught this fantastic 52cm flatty fishing off Rye with mate Leigh on the weekend.

Staff member David Kramer had an all female crew on the weekend with Collingwood AFLW players Chloe Molloy and Steph Ghiocci on board. Playing bait boy to the girls, David got the crew onto some nice yank flathead, whiting, calamari and cuttlefish.

Aiden Duke popped into the Mornington shop to show us his ripper 18kg gummy shark caught fishing the South Channel out from Rye using a salmon chunk for bait. Well done on a great gummy mate!

MOUNT MARTHA

Mornington staff member Jeremy De Haan has had a couple of good sessions out from Mount Martha over the past week. He found some epic schools of salmon catching them on soft plastics and he also got stuck into a nice bag of squid using red foil IKA squid jigs.

Cranbourne staff member Brendon Cunningham had a fantastic session fishing land based at Mount Martha rocks on Sunday landing 6 nice squid using red foil Hayabusa squid jigs.

CARRUM

Mark fished out from Carrum last week and landed this thumper of a flatty going 56cm using an Ultimate Squid soft plastic, well done mate!

Jayson Turner from Pro Red Fishing Charters launching out from Carrum with his customers had a great session on Wednesday landing some nice snapper to 3.5kg, fantastic flatties and a nice school shark.

WERRIBEE SOUTH

David Bish had some great sessions off Werribee South recently with some nice sized gummies caught on squid and pilchards.

ST LEONARDS

Daniel Zagami from Fish On Charters got on to a patch of whiting and some solid flatties with his customers fishing the sand patches at St Leonards; best baits were squid and pipi.

Brent and Dave Monger managed to find some nice snapper off St Leonards last week fishing in 20 metres.

TORQUAY

Hugo Maddalena fished around Torquay recently and found some fantastic squid in the early morning.

PORTLAND

Cranbourne staff member Harley Scott kicked off his holidays with a session fishing off Julia Percy out from Portland on Monday with a beautiful kingfish landed on the jig.

Anthony Kandi and his dad Peter fished out from Portland last week managing a cracking mixed bag with some nice kingys and tuna landed fishing the North Shore in 20 metres.

TOOLAMBA

6 year old Jake Whitaker fished the Goulburn River at Toolamba last week and caught this 65cm Murray cod.

LAKE EILDON

Troy Falzon and Aaron Farrugia fished Lake Eildon this week landing 4 nice Murray cod

Garry Dowell landed this monster of a Murray cod while trolling at Lake Eildon last week, the fish measured in at 92cm, well done Gaz!

DEVILBEND RESERVOIR

Glenn Lacey, Brayden Adams and Daniel Lacey had a great time fishing for EP’s at Devilbend Reservoir this week with the last light bite going off with surface poppers.

CORNER INLET

Mark Fitzmaurice and the family had a fantastic time at Corner Inlet catching flathead to 70cm and some nice whiting to 42cm.

LOCH SPORT

Andrew Ketelaar found some cracking flathead to 50cm fishing land based at Loch Sport on the weekend.

LAKES ENTRANCE

Clinton Warry has reported in from Lakes Entrance with a couple more ripper dusky flathead caught this week with a 75cm for young Tom and 80cm for Brodie well done guys!

Young Tyler and Brodie Methers have been catching some fantastic whiting at Lakes Entrance lately with the biggest being 46.5cm.

TAMBOON

Anthony fished with his brother in law Tom at Tamboon over the weekend and Tom landed this monster of a tailor estimated around 80cm.

KOONDROOK

Brandon Bish and his dad David fished the Murray River at Koondrook on the weekend landing some beautiful Murray cod as well as a few nice silver perch.

EDEN

Ryan Wassink and his brother Aaron fished Eden last week and landed a cracking gummy as well as a beautiful hammerhead shark. The next day Ryan took his nephew Xander out and had some fun catching slimy mackerel and trevally.

MERIMBULA

Kade Thornhill landed this cracking 68cm dusky flathead fishing the back lake at Merimbula which also won him first prize in a local comp, well done Kade!

BARMAH

Gavin Kirchner landed this monster cod fishing at Barmah this week, well done mate.

NEW ZEALAND

Nathan Healy reports in from his holiday in New Zealand with a couple of cracking kings at 22kg and 17kg.