i have recently heard and seen photos of a marlin washed up on woodside beach in victoria it still had some fresh blood running from its mouth so who knows what it is doing down here? any theories?

Holidaying? :)

Sick of the ridiculous amounts of freshwater coming off the QLD & NSW coast :)

i was out there yesterday and there were plenty of slimy mackrel and yakkas out there the water temp was 20.5 Degrees and a dark cobalt colour. we got plenty of snapper some flatties. i got a triple header of snapper on a bait jig

Theres been a few weird fish showing up round Victorian waters, there was the washed up Marlin not long ago but before that there were 2 seperate sightings of 2 " Marlin " swiming around Port Philip Bay, there were no pics and no one is sure if the guys had had a drink or two before the sighting. There was another report of a Dolphin fish being hooked out near the Rip but again its unconfirmed, but it would be great if these fish were in our waters then us Victorians could have a chance of catching some game fish that you guys from interstate take for granted.

Kaz

i have confirmed reports of dolphinfish off phillip island. a person iknow went out and thought he seen salmon busting up so he trolled and to his amazement caught 12 dolphinfish to about 3kg

You beauty Dolphin fish in Victorian waters,and even better they are almost in my back yard, one guess where I will be fishing from now and until I hook one. Kaz

i have also heard of stripie tuna being caught out at lakes. if you look in this months victoria fishing monthly there are confirming pictures. i know the last time these fish were caught in victoria was 30 years ago in the 70's

They are not just heading south. Last trip out in the Maroochy river in SE Qld I caught a yellow eye sand mullet. I know the fish well as I used to catch heaps at Narooma. I have never caught one before in Qld. The other odity was I caught a Remora in the Maroochy river the week earlier. In this area we get Remoras but always 30 km offshore. I've never seen them inshore . The same day I caught four Golden trevalley. Hervey bay is usually a far south as they come. Cheers Fiik.

about time you queenslanders sent us down some fish. :) its a nice thought that soon we may be able to catch more pelagics in victoria

I lived and worked in Canberra for ten years . Used to spin the rocks a lot and land based game ,particularly around Jervis bay. Will never forget all those wonderful coutta you sent up for us... Thanks Heaps:) Fiik.

Any chance you can redirect some of your pelargics down south and through the heads into Port Philip bay and up around to the Rosebud / Dromana area for a fishing session this Sunday arvo please?? It would be great to pull out a nice big GT or 2 from my home waters. Kaz

G'day Kaz, Although it is true that I wait for high tide then walk out to my favourite spots I may have a few problems getting the GT's to rosebud by tomorrow. Actually I was fishing Vic style today. Big schools of seagar have come into the Maroochy river . It happens with the first cold snap each autumn. I got 40 odd nice gar up to 38cm. Just had some fillets for tea. Beautiful,good as whiting. Cheers Fiik.

Ah well looks like I will have to work on the boss for a fishing trip up north. Sounds like you had a great Gar session Fiik, what baits do you use for Gars ? I use the white fish and a heap of berley, when the Gars are on down this way its shoulder to shoulder on the jetties and not enough fish to go around to make a feed, but they are good fun to hook. Cheers Kaz

Hi Kaz, I use chicken pellets and fishoil as berley. I use small bits of prawn for bait. It's funny when I am fishing for gar I use the bait shop prawns. When I am bream fishing I go to woolies and buy their large green bannana prawns. Most of the bait prawns are full of sodium meta-bisulphate to stop fungus from turning them black. Woolies prawns don't seem to have any(doubt if it's legal for human consumption they have enough problems with it in wines). The bream seem to prefer no chemicals in their tucker. Cheer Fiik.