LAKE Eildon has fished well for redfin to about 450g, reports Gary Constantine.
Most fish are being caught in the main arm to Jerusalem Ck and Wilsons Inlet. Baits used include scrubworms and yabbies, with Baltic bobbers also producing results.
Anglers fishing scrubworms on the bottom in the main marina are catching rainbow trout to 1.2kg.
Eildon Pondage is also producing rainbow trout to 1.3kg on gold Croc lures. Mudeyes under a float are the best option in Nursery Corner.
In East Gippsland, Mallacoota Inlet has silver trevally and bream being caught on prawn and lures in the Bottom Lake, with the Top Lake producing flathead and bream on whitebait and soft plastics.
Surf fishers using poppers with bluebait are catching salmon.
At Bemm River, salmon to 2kg and gummy sharks are taking bluebait and eel respectively.
In the Gippsland Lakes, Lakes Entrance has bream, silver trevally and salmon being caught from Bullock Island on prawn and lures.
In Lake Tyers, dusky flathead are biting on soft-plastic lures and prawn near the Glasshouse, with bream taking peeled prawn near the channel markers.
In South Gippsland, Alan McFayden reports Shallow Inlet is producing good numbers of King George whiting to 40cm. Gummy sharks and flathead also being caught.
In the Tarwin River above the highway bridge, estuary perch are being caught on Bass yabbies, sandworms and soft-plastic lures.
Anderson Inlet has King George whiting to 39cm, silver trevally, flathead, mullet and small numbers of gummy sharks.
Williamsons Beach has salmon to 1.6kg and mullet, and at Woolamai the salmon are to 2kg with whitebait, salted pipis and surf poppers the best baits.
Brendan Wing reports Western Port has gummy sharks to 33kg being caught along the channel from Hastings to Cat Bay on fish fillets and squid.
King George whiting up to 48cm are in large numbers at the north end of Middle Spit, Yaringa and Quail Banks. Squid, pipi and mussel the best baits.
In Port Phillip Bay, King George whiting are biting at Pt Cook, Campbell's Cove, and Rye to Sorrento, Portsea, Queenscliff to Indented Head and Corio Bay inner and outer harbours. Mussel, pipi and squid the preferred baits.
Gummy sharks to 19kg are being caught along the edge of the South Channel and Symonds Channel.
Snapper to 7kg are being caught in Corio Bay outer harbour, with pinkies to 45cm being caught off Kerford Rd pier, the Hotties at Newport and the inshore reefs off Williamstown.
On the Great Ocean Road, Grey River is producing King George whiting to 950g. Surf beaches from Princetown to Port Campbell are steady for salmon to about 400g on bluebait.
In the Western District, Doug Lucas says redfin to 400g are being caught in Lake Purrumbete on gudgeon.
Brown trout to 3kg are being caught on small minnow lures in the lower Gellibrand River.
The Gellibrand River has estuary perch taking flies and lures, and the lake section of the Curdies River is producing bream to 38cm on scrubworms. The lake is low and caution is paramount to avoid running aground.
Southern bluefin tuna are in good numbers off Portland. Catches of tuna to 28kg were made over the weekend, with most caught trolling skirted jigs in about 800m of water.
