Winter has well and truly set in with some very cold foggy mornings making it really hard to get enthusiastic about hitting the water. Very short report with only one snapper sighted this week.

The lucky angler was Richard he launched his boat on Sunday morning and headed out to fish around the Frankston area. He was fishing in 14 metres of water using squid as bait and sucessfully landed this nice 3.5kg snapper as can be seen above.

On Thursday staff members Matt Cheng and Simon Bolger headed early down to Gunamatta Beach. They ended up landing a nice bag of salmon weighing between 500-800 grams. The best time to fish was the last of the high tide and the bait used was blue bait and pippies.

I received a comprehensive report from Matt Cini who fished this week with staff member Matt Boulton he writes:

Ok the Bermi report is it was a three day trip and the first day was just a learning curve to see how it was done. We managed heaps of striped tuna but the second day was glass out conditions and was awesome, in total we caught 15 albacore and three yellow fin tuna to 40kgs the yellow fin came on cubes and the albacore came trolling and whilst cubing we saw them in our berley trail and dropped 7inch berkley gulps down with a giant jig head and every drop gave us a hook up. The albacore were 40 metres down and just wouldn't come up so yes dropping the lure down to them soon changed our result at the end of the day ….. awesome!

The third day we got some really good albacore a mako of about 100 kgs and heaps of stripeys we lucked out the yellow fin that day but when we returned to the ramp we found out that persistent cubing was the way to go this day as heaps of yellow fin were caught to 97 kgs it looks like Bermagui is back . Personally I haven't seen it like that for many years...

On a closer note the King George Whiting are going stupid in Westernport and they will for a while yet. Here are some pictures of fish caught just the other day and some from last year just to show you the quality of the fish this time of the year . You can expect fish up to 40 to 50 cm no less and the days are short and cold but we don't start our charters until 8am and they finish at 2pm so at least its not to cold.

I will do a special for all Launchingway customers for $500 bring up to 6 people and catch some big King George Whiting. Also snapper season is filling fast and so are the bookings if you ring and book before September 1st you will receive 10 percent of all charters including individuals. Check out the website for more details www.reeltimefishing.com.au

Thanks for the report Matt. For updated fishing and weather reports you can call the shop on 9772 5777. As the reports start to slow down I will be updating the webpage every two weeks from now on.

Have a great week.

Lynette and Trevor Hogan