Peninsula Total Tackle 14/01/2012

January 14, 2012

Well this is our first report back for 2012 after a busy few weeks of serving our customers down on the Peninsula. Happy new years to all, hope your fishing has been good fishing over the last few weeks!

We’ve compiled a bit of what’s currently happening and also thrown in some pics that have been sent to us throughout the last few weeks. Whilst it’s busy at this time of year with plenty of people on the peninsula, the best thing is that we get all sorts of different reports with almost every available species being targeted by someone out there!

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 Joe Bruno with a lovely 'sea' gar taken from Portsea Pier.

 

 

First up, big news over the last few weeks has been the return of the Australian Salmon schools to the heads area. It’s been a couple of years since we last had such a good showing of salmon in the RIP, but they are back – with a vengeance – and the size of the fish is impressive with plenty pushing 3kg.

 

SENSATIONAL SNAPPER COMP – Big congrats to young Ben Treloar who took out first prize in our sensational snapper comp with a 7.48kg fish. John Johnston won the Random Drawer Prize. Both winners took home hundreds of dollars worth of snapper gear including fantastic Shimano Baitrunners and Souther Snapper rods.

 

 

Staff Jason Unsworth with a pretty butterfly gurnard taken while drifting for makos off Barwon Heads.

 

 

 

Whiting are probably the favourite target species at this point in the year and we are getting particularly good reports from Queenscliff through to the stick at St Leonards. Fish are also being found close to home at Sorrento but the amount of boat traffic can be a bit of a nuisance for those keen to wet a line.

 

 

Nic with a beautiful brace of port phillip whiting.

 

 

 

Jim Stambanis with some of the best eating fish in Victoria!

 

 

Madeline Launder with Mr King George, a hugely popular target during our warmer months.

 

 

 

Jacques Kisnorbo with some great King George taken on cocktail baits of pippi and squid. The fish were all 43 – 45cm and caught in Westernport Bay.

 

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Brent Reitman with a ripping 18kg Gummy Shark he took off Rye, to cap off another great year of fishing!

 

 

 

Bec 'Ancalady' Barton-Lane with her first Gummy taken while fishing with Dale Mclelland.  Congrats Bec!

 

 

Noah with nice gummy taken off Rye while fishing with his father Randy.

 

 

Offshore, the Makos are yet to really fire up. We have had a number of customers out with only a few sharks being caught. Our suggestion would be to start a your drifts a little closer to home – maybe in amongst a salmon school and see what that produces.

 

 

Glen and mates landed this big mako that went 133kg around Christmas while fishing off Flinders.

 

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Out of Town, the Wright family journeyed to Port Albert to get stuck into a some nice mixed bag fishing. The guys caught plenty of whiting, gar and other table fish including flathead, mullet, salmon and even some flounder caught while spotlighting. The fish were caught on a combination of plastics and bait.

 

 

The boys were kept entertained with plenty of nice table fish.

 

 

 

Star angler of the family, Mitch, with a couple of nice flatties.

 

 

 

The team with a feed.

 

 

Tim Ffyfe, brother in law, Micah, and mate Ryan fished at Merrimbula over Christmas.  The guys were somewhat hampered by the wind which stopped them venturing off shore too often.  They still managed one nice day out where they caught a nice mako and also got amongst some King Fish.

 

Micah, Tim and Ryan pretty happy with this little guy.

 

 

 

Micah with a rat kingy.

 

 

Billy and Levent travelled the long road to Yalata over Christmas.  It's a long drive but they managed their target species - the elusive Mulloway.

 

 

Billy and Levent at Yalata.

 

 

 

A beautiful place to fish for a wonderful species.

 

 

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For more information feel free to drop in and see the boys at Peninsula Total Tackle, 11 Boneo Rd in Rosebud.

 

Dan, Gavin, Paul, Jason, Jules & John.

 

 

Jacques with a couple of lovely snapper taken while fishing off Frankston in19m. The fish went 4.8kg and 4.6kg

 

 

Andrew Walter sent us a few mixed bag reports starting with a session he had with mate Sean Dillion. The boys collected a nice snapper off Mt Martha before heading into Rosebud Reef for a bag of whiting and Squid.

 

Sean Dillion.

 

 

 

Andrew also fished with Anthony Germanchev, catching a similar bag of fish. Snapper were taken from Mt Martha and whiting, squid and flathead from Rosebud Reef.

 

 

Anthony Germanchev.

 

 

 

 

Staff Paul Barton with a nice cod caught at Christmas.

 

 

Benny Reinwald's Christmas dreams came true with this 14kg (Vic) kingfish caught off Cape Patterson.  Well done Benny... we know you did a few trips in search of this wicked fish!

 

 

 

 

There are some ripping blue spot flathead around this like this beast speared by Matt Dettmann in front of Whitecliffs at Rye.

 

 

 

 

Our mate Phil Andrews with yet another stonking Snapper!  Phil hats off to you, you certainly know how to find the bigguns!

 

 

Finally, a summer's day on the peninsula.