The fishing around Lakes Entrance has been firing up over the past few days. Trevally are biting on prawn, with anglers also having luck with small soft plastics or lightly weighted prawn imitations. Off the beach it’s been all about the salmon, try metal lures, with long casts and a steady retrieve, especially in the early morning and late afternoons.
Lake Tyers
Bream are smashing prawns or lightly weighted rigs, mainly around structures and drop offs. Flathead are taking soft plastics and diving minnows, and tailor are chasing pilchards, and metal lures.
Mitchell River
From The Cut through to the Port of Bairnsdale, flathead are showing up in solid numbers and are actively taking local prawns, live sandworm, and soft plastics. There’s also a healthy showing of bream in the system, responding well to cut crab and fresh local prawns
Tambo River
Mulloway have been on the chew between the two bridges, hitting both lures and blue bait, particularly. Closer to the mouth, bream are active and feeding on live sandworm, local prawns, and hard body lures.
Nicholson River
From the river mouth to the Highway Bridge for bream, taking live sandworm, soft plastics, local prawns, and blue bait. Drifting the flats or slow trolling plastics have also had good results.
Metung
For whiting and flathead, try Chinamans Creek, town jetties, and the boardwalk, using local prawns and pipis. The odd tailor is showing up along the back beaches chasing metal ures, while bream are taking crabs, mussels and local prawns
Paynesville
The jetties are the standout spots at the moment, producing good-sized bream along with the occasional mulloway with live sandworm being the preferred bait. Estuary perch are also being caught throughout the lake system, soft plastics proving the most effective.
Holland Landing
A mixed bag on offer here, with bream, the odd mulloway, and flathead all in the system, taking local prawn and live sandworm. Prawn activity has been strong right through towards Loch Sport, for that try a night session
Marlo
Bream and luderick are chasing live sandworm, local prawn and soft plastics around the Second Island. The Brodribb River has perch on the chew, taking live sandworm and hard body plastics in the deeper sections. Offshore, anglers are picking up gummies and flathead, with the main baits being blue bait and fresh fish fillets
Bemm River
The entrance is open, with tailor and salmon being landed off the beach and in the deeper channels. Larger bream are more active in the mornings, try the channel on soft plastics. Nice sized flathead are also around.
Mallacoota
Squid, flathead, snapper and gummy have all been landed recently using fresh baits such as squid cubes, and pilchards. Also give jigs a try. Large schools of Yellowtail Kingfish are also in the system, for baits use Bridled yakkas or squid. Flathead and bream are in the system chasing fresh prawn and soft plastics
High Country
Mitta Mitta, Gibbo & Ovens Rivers around Ht Hotham and Omeo have been producing some nice sized trout chasing hard bodys. With the colder weather on its way, please check the forecast before venturing out.
