Tackle World Cranbourne & Mornington Weekly Fishing Report For June 6th 2019

Shaun Furtiere from Think Big Fishing Charters found some great quality whiting with his customers on Wednesday fishing around Western Port.

FLINDERS

Joshua Chao reports using bright colored squid jigs while fishing the murky water at Flinders Pier is key to catching calamari.

BALNARRING

Karl Wilkinson and Brendon Hogg christened their new kayaks fishing out from Balnarring last week and landed a few small gummies.

EASTERN ARM

Deki caught a couple of cracking fishing on Saturday night fishing the Eastern Arm using fresh yakkas for bait.

CORINELLA

Brian Rinaldi alerted us that people are still going to Corinella only to find the boat ramp closed. The Corinella Boat Ramp upgrade commenced Monday 27th May and ramps will be closed and the area fenced off as a construction site through to late September 2019.

The Corinella Jetty will remain open during this period if you want to fish from the jetty.

DOCKLANDS

Jack caught some nice pinky snapper fishing at Docklands using pilchards for bait.

MORNINGTON

Dean Stacey headed out off Mornington last week and found plenty of fish to take his Zman soft plastics. Dean caught and released heaps of small pinky snapper but kept a few snook/pike and couta.

Riley and Mathew had fun on the Mornington Pier catching pinkies last week using squid for bait.

SORRENTO

Michelle Emma and her friends fished out from Sorrento for her birthday and smashed the squid landing a fantastic feed of calamari.

PORTSEA

Noey Out landed a nice squid fishing Portsea Pier last week using a 3.0 sized Yamashita jig in BK colour.

PORTLAND

Congratulations to Matt Cini and Rambo from Reel Time Fishing Charters who landed this 169kg southern bluefin tuna out from Portland on Thursday. It is reported that this is the largest SBT to be weighed in at Portland.

Rob and Dylan Mizzi from Sharkmen Fishing Charters had a couple of great sessions on the school tuna this past week with their customers.

Matt Cini from Reel Time Fishing Charters managed a couple of nice sessions out on the tuna this past week for his customers when the weather permitted.

Frank Ai landed his first big tuna of 70kg while fishing out from Portland with Peter Baldasso and Rialeigh Mathe.

MARRI RIVER

Luke Gercovich landed some solid brown trout fishing the Merri River this week.

HOPKINS RIVER

Lee Sutton fished the Hopkins river and landed some fantastic brown trout on soft plastics.

THORNTON

Shane Pemberton caught some beautiful brown trout from the Thornton area on soft plastics, the biggest measured 50cm.

LAKE EILDON

Thomas Pinter landed this solid Murray cod fishing at Lake Eildon last week.

RUBICON

Steve Donlon landed a nice fat brook trout fishing the Rubicon River last week. This long weekend is your last chance at chasing some nice river trout so get out there.

DEVILBEND RESERVOIR

Tom Vercoe landed this cracking redfin of 49cm fishing from the kayak at Devilbend; a slow jerked Nories Laydown Minnow fished along the weed beds did the job.

Brendan Smith found the EP’s at Devilbend have definately upped their size landing good numbers over 35cm and with good girth to them as well.

Andrew Ketelaar found some nice Estuary Perch fishing land based at Devilbend last week. Slowly retrieving hard body lures between the weed has been doing well.

KILCUNDA

The Keysborough Angling Club fished Kilcunda beach and between 6 members and 2 visitors they landed 60 salmon to a total weight of 51.6kg.

PORT ALBERT

Alison Gell caught and released this cracking flathead while fishing at Sunday Island off Port Albert.