Wye river

I went camping with my family in Wye river this week and tried a bit of surf fishing and rock fishing while I was there. I didn't have to much luck with the salt water catching only a single small salmon and a single wrasse on the first day there. I did persist several more times when the weather allowed spending over 8 hours trying for another fish but there was very little action. I also fished the small estuary in the mouth of the river, and kayaked the area several times with my kids. The first time through on the kayak I spotted several bream so I targeted them for a few hours as well. I fished unweighted worms hard against structure and under overhangs on the opposite side of the river and caught two bream and to my surprise a nicely conditioned brown trout from the same spot just 100m from the ocean.

 small salmon

 nice wrasse

fluffy visitor

couple of bream

 brown trout and the river section it was caught

long weekend

Yesterday I made the most of the public holiday and headed down towards Geelong and over to Wurdi Boluc reservoir for a couple of hours of bait and lure fishing.I ran into Micheal and Brad from last cast fishing tours on my way out and they had caught a couple of redfin in the 4 hours they had fished and told me it would be slow. I tried yabby both on the bottom and under a float and some garden worms on a small hook under a float. I also cast some squidgy wriglers and a savage hardbody for a while but the water was dirty and there was not much action. Occasionally a small trout would rise and give me a target to cast to and I did manage one small rainbow but it seemed a little slow. Today I headed over to Hamilton to pick up the kids from their Grandparents and came home the scenic rout via Horsham to see how the river looked. Plenty of standing water around but the river seemed to be handling the flow well within its banks. Once we all got home I cooked up some snags for dinner and threw a few rods in the car and headed to Geelong again but this time ended up at Cunningham pier and fished from 7-9 pm. There were about 5-6 people fishing  and only 4 small Flathead were landed that I knew of and I didn't even get a bite, but you cant catch em if you don't try so it was worth a shot.

 a calm day at wurdi boluc with a slight onshore breeze

 small rainbow trout caught on a worm under float

 all the gates open on the Horsham weir keeping the water level down

 a mild night with little wind at Geelongs Cunningham Pier.