Weekly Fishing Report For March 5th 2020 - Tackle World Cranbourne & Mornington

The annual Whiting Challenge was held over the weekend by the Western Port Angling Club. Some fantastic fish were caught over the weekend and some great prizes were awarded. Austyn Fawcett took out heaviest fish at 0.852kg closely followed by Matthew Schembri at 0.817kg.

Austyn Fawcett 0.852kg.

Matthew Schembri 0.817kg.

Christian Ellul 0.755kg.

Lilliana Wiesniak 0.646kg.

Lucca Porter & Safia Connelly VRFish Juniors.

Steve Johnston from Ace Fishing Charters found some fantastic whiting for his customers fishing in Western Port this week.

Jayson Turner from Pro Red Fishing Charters had a successful trip on the whiting with his customers this week using the Reedy’s Tingernoster rigs.

Shaun Furtiere from Think Big Fishing Charters had a number of successful whiting sessions this week with plenty of quality fish coming on board.

Shaun also had Steve come on board to learn a thing or 2 and caught some nice whiting then heading out for a gummy fish.

WESTERN ENTRANCE

Liam and Ash caught this 11ft thresher shark fishing outside the Western Entrance while targeting makos. The guys also report catching a nice 10kg gummy as well as catching and releasing an estimated 100kg bronze whaler.

Shannon Knight and Michael Kilpatrick have been fishing the beaches along the Western Entrance using a drone to set their baits before sunset with some success.

COWES

Tarran Van Egmond fished out from Cowes and caught his PB gummy shark.

LYSAUGHTS

Greg Mozz, Steve and Marina fished near Lysaughts on Sunday and had a great day catching a number of species.

TYABB

Mike fished near Tyabb on the weekend and landed some beautiful whiting as well as some solid slimey mackerel.

TOORADDIN

Young Troy had a great days fishing this week and enjoyed catching and releasing 4 different species of fish using scrubbies for bait at Tooraddin.

The crews from Reel Time Fishing Charters have had some fantastic sessions on Port Phillip Bay with their customers this past week with snapper, squid and kingfish all being caught.

PATTERSON LAKES

Blake Wischki fished with his dad Rob at Patterson lakes on the weekend and caught some ripper bream on hot chips!

MORNINGTON

Taylah and Alice had a ball fishing the Mornington pier catching and releasing plenty of small salmon.

MOUNT MARTHA

SORRENTO

MUD ISLAND

OFFSHORE

BEMM RIVER

The first confirmed Golden Tag fish has been caught during the Hobie Bream competition at Bemm River on Sunday. Ray Cooper caught this thumper estuary perch which awards him $10,000.

The second Golden Tag fish was caught by Andrew Fleming while fishing at Bemm River using prawn for bait.

TAMBO RIVER

Elie, George and George Jr fished the Tambo river last week and caught some nice bream on local prawns.

LAKE TYERS

Huff and Kozzi fished Lake Tyres over the weekend and managed this nice 41cm bream.

LAKES ENTRANCE

A third person is taking home $10,000 for catching a Golden Tag bream at Lakes Entrance! The man wishes to remain anonymous, but we can reveal it was caught on Monday night in the Cunningham Arm.

90 MILE BEACH

Prue Caia caught this nice bronzie fishing the 90 Mile Beach last week.

MITTA MITTA RIVER

Congratulations to Norm Harrison who’s caught the fourth tagged fish worth $10,000 as part of the Golden Tag competition! Norm was fishing the Mitta Mitta River in northeast Victoria and snagged the brown trout on his first cast yesterday! A bunch of garden worms did the trick.

EILDON PONDAGE

Julia (JC) Carter caught this nice 51cm/1.2kg rainbow on Saturday on a yellow Tassie devil. Well done JC!

ULLADALLA, NSW

Good customer Stretch Vyverberg tagged and released her first stripe marlin, approx 90kg at Ulladulla Thursday morning, using a Talica 25 and custom made Ultimate rod combo she had staff member Scott setup and organise.