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G’day fishvicers. What will the new year bring to us PPB fishos? With the dredging to start in early February and going a duration of 2 years we can only hope that our much loved bay will be able to bounce back! Only time will tell. Until then get out and enjoy it while you still can!

Mornington/Carrum
The 20m line has been the best area to prospect lately for a red or two with some good late season fish to 8kg coming in, with the majority of fish in the 1kg-3kg bracket taken on silver whiting, Red Rockets and squid.

In close at Canadian Bay some nice whiting have been on offer when fishing late afternoon on mussel and pipi. The same area has produced good bags of small-medium sized calamari on small #2 cloth jigs.The pier at Mornington continues to produce some great float fishing for garfish, baits of gents, silverfish and pieces of prawn have kept many a young angler entertained. Best method has been to berley the area well with a surface mixture and fish the float at a depth of around 1.5m.

Lucas Grech with a great snapper of 8kg taken on a silver whiting while fishing deep off Carrum recently.

Sandringham/Brighton
The middle Brighton pier has been productive with garfish, and pinky snapper. A light surface berley of bread crumbs and tuna oil has been a sure bet to get the gars active.
While out from the bathing boxes king George whiting have been good with modest bags taken while fishing the afternoons, pipis and mussel have hit the mark on the whiting.

Spoil Grounds

Corey hooked up to his first snapper.

Heres an email I received from friend Jason recently:

Gday Al, all the best to you and your family in 2008 we hope you had a great Christmas. Well finally we’ve got the computer up and running so I'll bombard you with snapper photos if you like. Here is a favourite day on my holidays a few weeks back, they are photos of Corey holding and catching his first real PPB red, it weighed 5.7kg on my scales but looked a bit bigger to me, it took a gar and he hooked and fought the fish all by himself and he did great lifting and winding like a pro, it was fantastic to watch. I netted it for him and did his eyes light up when the fish was on the floor of the boat, I don’t think he could believe what he just caught, it made my holiday. We were between SG and P2 but more towards the shotty. We have being doing really great in the area just moving 1km until we find a few marks or bait schools on the sounder, with the odd gummy having a go at the squid. Speaking of arrow squid, there are a few around the SG taking the silvers but haven’t seen them thick as yet. I haven’t ever seen the amount of bait fish around, there is a ton of gars, yakkas and squid, it's awesome to see. I hope the dredging doesn’t stuff our waterway up. Anyways, happy fishing always. Jase.

The smile says it all, Corey with his red!

Point Cook/Werribee
While the whiting have been a little hit and miss, there have been some modest bags of fish to 35cm with the average around 27cm-30cm taken out from the RAAF and down to the point. It pays not to fish an area too long if things aren’t happening, so be prepared to move every 30 minutes or so until a drop produces fish. Mussel and pipi producing best results.

The grass beds to the right of the Werribee ramp have been slow with small bags of school fish (many undersize) biting early morning and twilight, this area will fish well in the coming weeks. The Werribee River is fishing well for bream to 1.2kg on podworms and Bass yabbies. Best areas have been the cliffs and around the moored boats late in the day.

Ismet Tasci with a 5.5kg red taken out from Altona.

Indented Head/St Leonards
Regular Northside customer Graeme Love has been braining the whiting out from St Leonards. Graeme is a keen diver and told me he has seen some very large schools of whiting moving about in the area of late!

Good bags of fish ranging from legal to 45cm with pipi, mussel and fresh cuttlefish all putting fish in the boat. Best time has been late afternoon (twilight) although some good bags have come on the morning changes of tide. It seems patience is the key and be prepared to pull the pick a few times to hit them.

Good luck, and catch a big one!!
Allan Allwood

See previous Allwood report here.