Tackle World Cranbourne & Mornington Weekly Fishing Report For October 24th 2019

Shaun Furtiere from Think Big Fishing Charters had customers, Michael Beltrami, Nathan Tree Walker & his 2 daughters on board on Wednesday for some ripper fun on Western Port catching some nice calamari and whiting.

Shaun Furtiere had some international guests on board and helped them experience what big red is all about.

Early in the week Shaun helped Vladimir and Boris get catch some Western Port flake as well as get another customer on to some nice whiting.

Last week Shaun helped customer Rob get on to a nice gummy shark on fresh squid.

FLINDERS

Staff member Austin Sawyer hit Flinders Pier on Friday and managed a nice 32cm squid.

HASTINGS

Young Alex with 2 cracking snapper caught out from Hastings on Sunday using squid for bait, great fish mate!

LYSAUGHTS

Nando Barbanera with a fantastic 82cm snapper caught out from Lysaughts on the weekend.

NORTH ARM

Sam Triplett had a couple of good trips this week with a nice 7kg fish on Monday during the flood tide on fresh couta. On Tuesday Sam landed 2 cracking reds at sunrise during the flood tide on fresh squid.

QUAIL BANK

Pat Ellaby caught this ripper squid of 40cm(hood) fishing Quail Bank this week.

LANG LANG

Mick Vanders fished from his kayak at Lang Lang and smashed his PB with a ripper 91cm snapper. Great fish mate well done.

CORINELLA

Brian Rinaldi with a beautiful snapper caught out from Corinella on Wednesday in fantastic conditions.

Don Wood fished Corinella this week and caught a nice gummy shark.

Jovan Pageot with a couple of ripper reds caught from Corinella on Wednesday.

CORONET BAY

Matt Tormey fished Coronet Bay on Wednesday and caught a couple of nice snapper as well as a gummy shark.

THE CORALS

Amanda Keilar caught a cracker snapper of 78cm fishing The Corals last week using fresh squid for bait, as a bonus Amanda also got a nice gummy shark.

The Reel Time Fishing Charters crews have had taken advantage of the mid-week weather and smashed some nice snapper with their customers on Port Phillip Bay.

Matt Cini from Reel Time Fishing Charters took Warren out on a guided session and helped him get on to a some nice snapper.

Dylan and Rob Mizzi from Sharkmen Fishing Charters got their customers on to some nice snapper fishing in Port Phillip Bay last week.

NEWPORT

Reg Day caught this ripper snapper fishing land based at Newport last week.

RICKETT'S POINT

Rob Sharp with a cracking snapper caught in 16 metres of water off Rickett's using pilchard for bait, great fish mate well done.

MORDIALLOC

CARRUM

Tom Patterson with his first fish; a lovely snapper caught off Carrum in 18 metres of water using silver whiting for bait.

Julian Rennie fished solo out from Carrum on Monday in 17 metres for a few nice snapper on squid strips.

Paul caught this nice snapper fishing off Carrum in 17 metres of water using silver whiting for bait.

MORNINGTON

Darren Mathews braved the cold and rain and was rewarded for his efforts with this great snapper from the pier. The fish was caught on fresh couta.

Motu Uelehipa caught a nice pinky snapper fishing the pier on the weekend.

MOUNT MARTHA

Nuraj Ramadan Isai landed this 40cm squid fishing at Mount Martha this week.

SORRENTO

Tarran Van Egmond and a couple of mates fished out from Sorrento on Tuesday and landed some cracker squid to 42cm in 3 to 5 metres of water.

PORTSEA

Tarran Van Egmond and Ryan Kang fished the Portsea Pier on Monday and slayed some donkey squid with a total of 14 caught for the day and the biggest hood going 46cm.

ST LEONARDS

Steve Vessey fished out from St Leonards on the yak in 4.5 metres of water and managed a few nice whiting to 40cm on squid strips and pipis. Nice work Steve.

Danny Nguyen fished from the St Leonards Pier and landed a nice snapper using a squid head for bait.

PORTARLINGTON

John Fotias fished in 3.5 metres of water with George Triantis and smashed the squid using white jigs out from Portarlington.

Women In Recreational Fishing leaders; Michelle, Niki and Tiffany hit the squid off Portarlington on the weekend with their biggest going 40cm all caught on gold foil jigs, well done ladies.

ALTONA

Tim Frost fished from his kayak out from Altona and managed a nice snapper of 62cm caught on a soft plastic

Mark Moseley caught this nice snapper in the shallows out from Altona on Sunday at first light.

Paul Vatta with a couple of nice snapper caught at Altona reef.

LAKE FYANS

Ben Young caught this ripper brown trout fishing Lake Fyans last week on a Nories Laydown Minnow.

LAKE EILDON

Paul Raike caught this solid yellow belly of 51cm on worms fishing the Delatite Arm of Lake Eildon last week.

EILDON PONDAGE

Bruce Ashcroft fished the Pondage and managed 4 ripper rainbows on the one scrubbie keeping one fish for a feed.

ACHERON RIVER

Katherine Grech from Better Boating Victoria headed out on a fly fish guide with Charley May on the Acheron River where Katherine landed her first wild brown trout.

BUXTON

Zennon Downward caught this beautiful tiger trout fishing a river in Buxton on a Blue Fox spinner.

BLUE ROCK LAKE

David Borninkhof reports in from Blue Rock Lake where the Central Vic Lure Casters held a competition on the weekend. Biggest bass caught went 46cm by angler Ben Faroll with most fish caught in the mid 30s and 40s.

TARWIN RIVER

Jeremy Peach with a lovely 35cm Estuary Perch caught around the mouth of the Tarwin River.

PORT ALBERT

Neville Lowe caught this beautiful gummy shark fishing Whale Bay at Port Albert this week.

MERIMBULA, NSW

Andrew Ketelaar has spent the past week at Merimbula having a ball on the local trevally and salmon population fishing both the beaches as well as the lake. Metals slugs on the beaches have been the go and poppers in the lake on busting schools has done well also.