Tackle World Cranbourne & Mornington Weekly Fishing Report For January 31st 2019

Paul fished with his mate James and Collingwood footballer Mason Cox on Monday; launching from Martha Cove the lads headed over towards Mud Island where they caught one of PW’s best bags of whiting in years as well as some fantastic blue spot flathead and tommy rough’s. The key to their success was burley pellets in the Sea Dog burley cage on the bottom as well as using a bait cocktail of pipi and squid. As always with Paul’s whiting trips he made cleaning easy by using the Tumbler Scaling Bag which took away all the slime and scaled their catch prior to filleting.

Shaun Furtiere from Think Big Fishing Charters enjoyed a fantastic week with a number of charters getting stuck into some thumping whiting as well as a good feed of garfish on the Wednesday charter.

SEAL ROCK

Peter Stach and his boss Andrew Waters headed out to Seal Rock on Monday and caught a fantastic kingfish of over a metre on a live mackerel.

Dave Barlow scored this cracking gummy shark as by-catch while targeting kingfish at Seal Rock this week.

WESTERN ENTRANCE

Gavin Hocking fished the Western Entrance on a solo mission and landed 2 cracking gummies using fresh salmon for bait.

COWES

Dave Barlow fished off Cowes in 18 metres and landed this fantastic snapper on a slimey chunk.

RHYLL

Jenny Mackenzie landed this fantastic snapper fishing out from Rhyll last week while out fishing with Kerrie Bayton.

SOMERS

Daniel Stefanetti reports in after a massive week catching some monster gummies just out from Somers. Daniel also headed out with Jason Taylor chasing kingfish around the Eastern Entrance and landed a number of kings on livey’s with the biggest going 1.17m.

HANNS INLET

Nick Guest dropped in at Hanns Inlet and landed this nice little gummy on fresh pike during the incoming tide.

TORTOISE HEAD

Gerry Morsman and Julian Rennie smashed the whiting fishing Tortoise Head this week using pipi’s and mussels for bait.

MIDDLE SPIT

Staff members Adam Fraser and Greg Smith headed out on Wednesday chasing whiting getting a few around Quail Bank as well as some fantastic flatties near ESSO but the highlight of the trip was Frase’s beautiful gummy caught at Middle Spit on a fresh squid head.

YARINGA

Dean Aitchison and his dad David had a great session fishing out from Yaringa this week landing some fantastic whiting.

EAGLE ROCK

Bruce and Heather Ashcroft fished the channel near Eagle Rock this week for some beautiful snapper as well as 20 whiting.

CLEELAND BIGHT

Staff members Brendon Cunningham and Scott Harper headed out to Cleeland Bight on Monday and landed a number of thumping calamari finding natural coloured Yamashita jigs in 3.0 working the best.

Matt Cini and the crew from Reel Time Fishing Charters have been smokin’ the whiting and flatties over the last week with their customers taking home plenty of fish for a feed.

CARRUM

Ian landed some ripper flatties fishing out from Carrum using squid and pilchards for bait.

MORNINGTON

Jason Turner from Pro Red Fishing Charters headed out with his customers on Australia Day for a nice session on the pinkie snapper.

Jake has been getting stuck into some top quality flatties lately fishing out from Mornington. Jake likes to mix things up using bait and soft plastics to great affect.

Julian found some nice flatties fishing from Mornington to Mt Eliza in 10 metres of water using pilchards for bait.

Matthew Sinnema and his kids, Noah and Alex headed to Mornington Pier after reading our Pier Report on Facebook and had a ball catching and releasing pinkies and salmon.

MOUNT MARTHA

Mario Dugonjic and Bill Adamopoulos launched from Mount Martha starting off landing some nice squid and a cuttlefish before heading further down The Peninsula and converting their cuttlefish into some fantastic whiting ranging from 35-46cm.

SOUTH CHANNEL

Joshua Natoli headed out to the South Channel and landed a couple of nice gummies using fresh squid for bait.

SORRENTO

Dave and Ben took their 6 year old nephew Rupert out for his first whiting and they managed to land 10 with their biggest going 43cm fishing off Sorrento.

THE RIP/OFFSHORE

Jake Over and the family fished just outside The Rip this week and landed a number of cracking kings.

Matt Cini from Reel Time Fishing Charters got his customers stuck into some cracking kings offshore from The Rip on Wednesday with their biggest going 12kg and a few rats thrown back.

ST LEONARDS

Declan Rix fished at St Leonards this week and landed this cracking flattie in 14 metres.

GEELONG

Kevin Byrne landed this beauty of a snapper fishing out from Geelong this week.

PORTLAND

Izzy Sesto and the boys had a ripper weekend at Portland with Izzy landing her very first, mako, tuna and kingy, well done Iz!

FITZROY RIVER

Tyler Hotchkin headed to the Fitzroy River over the weekend and landed some fantastic bream using Double Clutch lures.

CAPE SCHANCK

Trent Dickinson and Reece Millward fished Cape Schanck and caught this thumper of a kingfish weighing in at over 11kg and measured 109cm.

WILSONS PROM

Jason Taylor made the most of Australia Day and fished Wilson’s Prom landing a cracking king on poppers.

Max Moulday and Brodie Nachmann fished Wilson’s Prom this week and both landed some monster gummies at around 10kg each using fresh yakka as bait.

David Glennie from the Peninsula Snapper Challenge caught this lovely Mako fishing out from Refuge Cove. David was using the Gotcha 8kg berley blocks to great effect finding them ideal as they last longer and provide an excellent trail.

PORT WELSHPOOL

Lara and her dad fished out from Port Welshpool this week and landed an awesome bag of flatties to 50cm as well as Lara’s first gummy shark.

TAMBOON

11 year old Courtney Sergejew landed her first kingfish on a slow trolled squid strip fishing the Tamboon Reef. The Sergejew family landed 5 kings for the session with some epic topwater action in the mix.

TANJIL RIVER

Young Isaac Brooker landed his first fish, a lovely redfin fishing the Tanjil River near Blue Rock last week.

BARMAH

Dmitri Poloz fished the Murray River at Barmah and landed this cracking cod of 83cm.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Peter Krelle reports in from SA with some ripper snapper landed fishing the Spencer Gulf area.