Peninsula Total Tackle Fishing Report 04/02/2012
February 4, 2012
Yellowtail Kings… enough to get any man excited. Especially when they’re being caught locally! And that’s the big news for the week – there have been plenty of kings caught off the Mornington Peninsula from both the heads area and off shore.
Rats to fish around 10kg have been caught using a variety of techniques from knife jigs and poppers to simple bait fishing. I am sure us guys in the shop are not the only ones fantasizing about getting stuck into a few of these fish! And the good news is that, anecdotally at least, the fish appear to be coming back in bigger numbers every year. Let’s hope we return to the king fishing of yesteryear in the same way that our snapper fishing has improved dramatically in the last decade or so!
Jay Furniss caught this Yellowtail kingfish with Charlie Micallef this week. Well done boys, a cracker!
Toby and the boys from RIP Charters (0438 847 791) got stuck into some serious numbers of kings.... Great stuff.
Baz Gorman and Toby also got stuck into good numbers of rats to just legal kings this week.
While these fish came from a little further afield, off the Prom, Benny Reinwald and Dan Windsor had a day out nailing 4 with the biggest at 12kg. The boys also dropped a number of fish - not enough hands on deck to handle the mayhem! Dan Windsor above.
Benny Reinwald with a couple of crackers.
To top of the day Dan finished with a nice little mako shark - his first!
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For something a little different, Gunamatta back beach is producing salmon to around 1kg with the occasional larger fish thrown in. There are also plenty of yellow eye mullet – but to catch these fish you must down size your hooks. Try a size 8 or 10 long shank.
Offshore, it has been a relatively quiet year on the makos but good sand and tiger flathead are being caught by those drifting in 30m – 45m of water from Portsea to Rye back beach.
Salmon continue in and around the RIP. The fish this week have been a bit smaller though with most between 600g and 1kg.
A smallish bust up outside the heads.
Staff Dan Lee with salmon from a RIP bust-up.
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Brett Elwers and the kids have been having a bit f fun from the Mt Martha rocks. This is young Matari with a nice little pinky.
Here's Jaiden with another - his first ever fish! Well done buddy!
Brett himself managed this 1kg from the same stones.
Brett caught this enthusiastic gar on a slug.
Staff Jules Frank had a similar experience with this gar on an Atomic Semi Hardz.
Customer Mark has been fishing off both bays catching some nice mixed bags of whiting, leather jackets and squid at Corinella and Frankston.
He also managed this little critter... 1000 raps on a local rock, Greek Style, and bbq octopus she will be!
Mum to be, Geetha, and Brent (congrats guys!) caught this fantastic bag of squid and gar!
Tim Knights got stuck into the Peninsula Blue Spot flatty action with this thumping frog!
Customer Reece Young christened his spanking new outfit - a Stella 2500FE and Nitro Distance cast, with these very nice squid from the Blairgowrie Marina.
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Dan, Gavin, Paul, Jason, Jules & John.
Finally, gummies are still on the chew - check some of this action:
John Woodruff caught this solid fish land based at Merricks. Ripping night catch!
James Markulis and a couple of mates hit the water with Gawaine Blake and Big Time charters (0411 103 367). All three of the boys managed to land a thumping gummy. Happy days!
A session to remember!
Last but not least, Nick Simic with a bubba litlle gummy that lived to swim another day.
Next week we will not have a report as our main report writer Dan Lee will be away fishing in Port Stephens for 4 days.... hopefully returning with a tale or two about Marlin.