Tackle World Cranbourne & Mornington Weekly Fishing Report For May 17th 2018

Paul, Cristy, Jet and the IFISH crew traveled out to the Kimberley at Horizontal Falls last week. The crew enjoyed catching barramundi, saddle tail snapper (large mouth nannygai), golden snapper and massive mangrove jacks. Fishing the Horizontal Falls the team got smoked by huge dhufish and caught coral trout on soft plastics. Some epic adventures coming to IFISH later this year.

TYABB BANK

Some good size calamari are hovering on the Tyabb Bank when weather permits you to get out there. Use size 3.5 jigs as there are some big models and a few cuttlefish around at the moment.

MIDDLE SPIT

The top end of the spit is producing good numbers of King George whiting, as some anglers are discovering now the water is cooling off. Pipi and squid cocktails have accounted for most fish.

BUOY 6

Kozzy and Huff headed out around Buoy 6 in the Western Entrance on Monday looking for gummies. While they didn’t come home with a gummy, these two monster Cuttlefish took mackerel baits down deep giving the boys a delicious feed to take home.

PORT MELBOURNE

Frank Cakici fished Webb Dock in Port Melbourne on Sunday and caught this cracking snapper on sunset.

MORNINGTON

Julian Rennie and his daughter Taylor headed out from Mornington on Sunday morning and bagged 15 squid in 30mins. Even with the weather we’ve had the squid are still fishing really well.

MUD ISLAND

Tibby Flora headed out on a gummy mission around Mud Island on Monday and finally had success catching this fantastic gummy shark as well as a good bag of flatties and squid.

Mark Gray headed out on a solo session to Mud Island on Wednesday and managed this gorgeous gummy in 7m of water on a fresh yakka chunk. Well done mate!

PINNACE CHANNEL

Michael Farrelly fished the Pinnace Channel and brought home a ripper feed of flatties for the table.

PORTLAND

Matt Cini and Marco from Reel Time Fishing Charters had a cracking day on Monday on their tuna charter with a 141.5kg barrel tuna being caught by angler Jarrod Williams in 50 metres of water south of Lawrence Rocks. Well done guys!

Jayson Turner from Pro Red Fishing Charters is down at Portland at the moment sniffing out the tuna scene. He has been getting some fantastic tuna on redbait style lures and skirts.

HOPKINS RIVER

Lee Sutton fished the Hopkins on Monday catching some nice trout on soft plastics.

WURDIBULOC

Mark Malone caught this fantastic 45cm reddie from Wurdiboluc on Monday evening.

LAKE FYANS

Ray Howard caught this beautiful 47cm redfin from Lake Fyans on Saturday.

LAKE EILDON

Nathan McDonald caught this lovely brown trout from Lake Eildon on a pink Tassie devil that went 62cm.

EILDON PONDAGE

Zoran Risteski fished Eildon Pondage on Saturday catching this nice rainbow trout on his first cast.

GOULBURN RIVER

Peter Pomorski headed out in the rain on Tuesday and caught some quality brown trout from the Goulburn on hard bodies.

And just a reminder, there are only 4 more weekends until the close of trout season in most Victorian Rivers.

PATTERSON RIVER

Brent and Don fished Patterson River and caught these two ripping mulloway within half an hour of each other. The rain must have had these fishing moving around the system.

DEVILBEND RESERVOIR

Kurt Eigenraam sent through this photo of his estuary perch that he caught from Devilbend Reservoir on Monday. It measured 35cm which is a great size to come out of there.

TANJIL RIVER

Andrew Ketelaar is making the most of the last month of trout season getting into some nice trout on the Tanjil river on Saturday.

MITTA MITTA

Cindy Rapsey fished the mid-section of the Mitta Mitta river and caught some quality brown trout fishing with soft plastics.

EXMOUTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

The Streader Brothers have been fishing aboard On Strike Charters last week and managed some nice black marlin, amberjack and GT’s.