Checkout the latest monthly giveaways!

Join Today!

FISHING REPORTS – MELBOURNE & VICTORIA

*Please note Fishing Reports are now found in the FishingMad Members Area this page is no longer updated. The FishingMad Members area includes weekly detailed reports for Port Phillip Bay, Western Port, Portland, land-based fishing, Lakes and Estuaries. Detailed reports including GPS Marks as well as forums, workshops, rigging guides, gear guides, competitions, giveaways and much more.

BECOME A FISHINGMAD MEMBER AND UNLOCK ACCESS TO

Weekly Reports | Workshops | Giveaways | Podcasts | Competitions | Forums | Maps | GPS Marks | Rigging Tutorials | Sounder School | Exclusive Footage | Tackle Talks | Gear Guides | Kayak Club | & Much More

Become a FishingMad Member

Sorrento Pier Squid

*Please note Fishing Reports are now found in the FishingMad Members Area this page is no longer updated. The FishingMad Members area includes weekly detailed reports for Port Phillip Bay, Western Port, Portland, land-based fishing, Lakes and Estuaries. Detailed reports including GPS Marks as well as forums, workshops, rigging guides, […]

Lagoon Pier Snapper Port Melbourne

*Please note Fishing Reports are now found in the FishingMad Members Area this page is no longer updated. The FishingMad Members area includes weekly detailed reports for Port Phillip Bay, Western Port, Portland, land-based fishing, Lakes and Estuaries. Detailed reports including GPS Marks as well as forums, workshops, rigging guides, […]

Middle Spit Whiting Western Port

*Please note Fishing Reports are now found in the FishingMad Members Area this page is no longer updated. The FishingMad Members area includes weekly detailed reports for Port Phillip Bay, Western Port, Portland, land-based fishing, Lakes and Estuaries. Detailed reports including GPS Marks as well as forums, workshops, rigging guides, […]

Altona Snapper Fishing Report

*Please note Fishing Reports are now found in the FishingMad Members Area this page is no longer updated. The FishingMad Members area includes weekly detailed reports for Port Phillip Bay, Western Port, Portland, land-based fishing, Lakes and Estuaries. Detailed reports including GPS Marks as well as forums, workshops, rigging guides, […]

Mornington Pier Snapper Fishing

*Please note Fishing Reports are now found in the FishingMad Members Area this page is no longer updated. The FishingMad Members area includes weekly detailed reports for Port Phillip Bay, Western Port, Portland, land-based fishing, Lakes and Estuaries. Detailed reports including GPS Marks as well as forums, workshops, rigging guides, […]

Moorabool Reservoir Trout Fishing Report

*Please note Fishing Reports are now found in the FishingMad Members Area this page is no longer updated. The FishingMad Members area includes weekly detailed reports for Port Phillip Bay, Western Port, Portland, land-based fishing, Lakes and Estuaries. Detailed reports including GPS Marks as well as forums, workshops, rigging guides, […]

Aire River Fishing Report

*Please note Fishing Reports are now found in the FishingMad Members Area this page is no longer updated. The FishingMad Members area includes weekly detailed reports for Port Phillip Bay, Western Port, Portland, land-based fishing, Lakes and Estuaries. Detailed reports including GPS Marks as well as forums, workshops, rigging guides, […]

Lake Eppalock Cod

*Please note Fishing Reports are now found in the FishingMad Members Area this page is no longer updated. The FishingMad Members area includes weekly detailed reports for Port Phillip Bay, Western Port, Portland, land-based fishing, Lakes and Estuaries. Detailed reports including GPS Marks as well as forums, workshops, rigging guides, […]

Werribee River Murray Cod

*Please note Fishing Reports are now found in the FishingMad Members Area this page is no longer updated. The FishingMad Members area includes weekly detailed reports for Port Phillip Bay, Western Port, Portland, land-based fishing, Lakes and Estuaries. Detailed reports including GPS Marks as well as forums, workshops, rigging guides, […]

Port Phillip Bay South Snapper

*Please note Fishing Reports are now found in the FishingMad Members Area this page is no longer updated. The FishingMad Members area includes weekly detailed reports for Port Phillip Bay, Western Port, Portland, land-based fishing, Lakes and Estuaries. Detailed reports including GPS Marks as well as forums, workshops, rigging guides, […]

Barwon River Carp Fishing

*Please note Fishing Reports are now found in the FishingMad Members Area this page is no longer updated. The FishingMad Members area includes weekly detailed reports for Port Phillip Bay, Western Port, Portland, land-based fishing, Lakes and Estuaries. Detailed reports including GPS Marks as well as forums, workshops, rigging guides, […]

Wyndham Rockwall Mulloway fishing

*Please note Fishing Reports are now found in the FishingMad Members Area this page is no longer updated. The FishingMad Members area includes weekly detailed reports for Port Phillip Bay, Western Port, Portland, land-based fishing, Lakes and Estuaries. Detailed reports including GPS Marks as well as forums, workshops, rigging guides, […]

Werribee River Estuary Perch

Werribee River Estuary Perch Fishing report by Steve Vessy ( Fishing with Steve ). Well, it’s been a long time in lockdown, but this past month we have been released with a 5km radius from our homes or workplaces, after having a look at Google maps I figured the only […]

Mornington Peninsula Garfish Fishing Report

Mornington Garfish Fishing, Rob Wortho has kindly sent us through a fishing report from Mornington Peninsula. Rob launched from the Mornington Boat ramp with his Hobie Outback kayak. A morning on the water with some close mates in search of garnish. Once reaching water depths of around 3 meters deep […]

Princess Pier Snapper Fishing Report

Princess Pier Snapper report. Finally, Melbourne was allowed to go fishing once again. Dan Andrews had finally loosened the reigns on level 3 COVID-19 restrictions. Alan and Mark headed straight towards Port Melbourne. Starting their session near the ever-popular princess pier pylons. The guys anchored up around 20 meters away […]

Lake Wendouree Trout Fishing Report

Luke Hynes went for a trip up to Ballarat for some Lake Wendouree Trout Fishing. Was a cold a drizzly day and Luke was armed only with his ultra-light spin rod paired with a 2004 Daiwa GEKKABIJIN reel spooled with 6lb braid and 4lb fluoro leader. Battling the 20-kilometre winds […]

Werribee South Gummy Sharks Fishing Report

Steve Vessy from Fishing with Steve has had some exciting times targeting Werribee South Gummy Sharks. on Friday 15th launched from Werribee South at 3 pm. It was low tide making him have to drag the kayak over 50 meters of sand. This was made much worse as he had […]

Limeburners Lagoon Fishing Report

Limeburners Lagoon Fishing Report. In December 2019 I ventured out to the Geelong Grammar country and fished the quite popular Limeburners Lagoon. This is a great place to launch a kayak and close reach to species such as whiting, pinkies, trevally, flathead and snook. The day started quite challenging with […]

Clifton Springs Squid Fishing Report

Clifton Springs Fishing Report. This week I ventured up to Clifton springs. The decision to do this was after having 20 kilometre southerly winds all week. This looked like the most protected location for fishing from strong southerly winds. It was a 90-minute drive from Melbourne. I was fishing in […]

Kerferd road pier pinkie snapper fishing report

Kerferd pier fishing report. It can be tough for many land-based anglers. Often long and unrewarded hours. Jeremy Ang is a local around Port Melbourne and has been fishing princess pier, port Melbourne pier, the west gate bridge and stretches of the Yarra river a lot lately. However, he has […]

Campbells Cove Whiting Fishing Report

Campbells Cove Fishing Report courtesy from Steve Vessy from Fishing with Steve. Do make sure to check out his YouTube channel and Instagram page. You can see more about fishing Campbells cove here. So Wednesday started at 5 am, The weather gods had finally started to play nice. The kayak was […]

Williamstown snapper fishing report Port Phillip Bay

Williamstown snapper fishing report. Its been a slow start to the snapper season this year. Water temperatures which are well below normal for this time of year have the season a little delayed. Generally when the water is around 17 degrees is optimal for snapper fishing. However, we are almost […]

Werribee River entrance Snapper

Fishing report for Werribee River entrance Snapper. Kevin this week ventured out fishing the afternoon around Werribee. The winds were still quite high so instead of seeking deeper water near the spoil grounds. He instead choose to fish in quite close to shore in 6 meters deep. The areas had […]

Altona Snapper Fishing Report

Mark recently launched from Altona boat ramp due to a persistent strong northerly breeze. Which hadn’t let up for nearly a week we were forced to stay in close. Rather than heading to usual stomping grounds such as P2, Fawkner beacon, or the spoil grounds. We stayed in only fishing […]

Wyndham Harbour Mulloway Fishing

Wyndham Harbour Mulloway Fishing. Stephen Vessey from “fishing with Steve” had planned a day out on the water kayak fishing with his son Logan at Campbell’s cove. But the weather changed nasty without warning despite the pleasant forecast and forced them to ditch their beloved kayaks. Logan suggested that they […]

Bostock Reservoir

Bostock Reservoir fishing report. Bostock is a scenic fishing destination located past Ballan heading towards Daylesford. In this fishing report, we venture up to Bostock Reservoir to target some redfin and stocked trout. This reservoir has recently been stocked with 7,000 rainbow trout fingerlings as part of the state governments target […]

Wedge Spit Squid fishing

In this fishing report, we launch from the Werribee boat ramp during cold but calm conditions. We venture Geelong way straight towards Wedge Spit and drop squid jigs targeting the ever tasty calamari. The fishing was a little slow require several position moves and continually redrifting over patches that were […]

Ferntree Gully stocked trout

I ventured up to Ferntree Gully quarry and managed to catch 10 stocked rainbow trout in 90 minutes fishing from the very scenic reserve. It’s a beautiful location with breathtaking views, active bird life, crystal clear waters and freshwater fishing. Victorian fisheries have stocked this system heavily with rainbow trout and […]

Canning Reserve Bream

I took my kids fishing for 45 minutes at Canning Reserve. This is a great location on the Maribyrnong River for fishing and playgrounds for the kids. We caught 6 bream in that short session. Several bream around 36cm in length. We were fishing with scrub worms on a small […]

Upper Stony Creek Trout and Redfin

For this fishing report, we headed towards Anakie and fished Upper Stony creek. A cold and windy morning and I started casting metal lures for extra casting distance. I was using Pontoon21 paco spoons and Nories Wasaby spoons. Only a few casts into the day I went head to head […]

Portarlington squid

This fishing report comes from Portarlington. We launch from Werribee boat ramp at 6.30am in glass-like waters and red skies. We shoot across Port Phillip Bay to Portarlington to target squid. We started fishing on first light and the action was frantic. Surprisingly after only a couple of drifts and […]

Black Rock Fishing Pinkies Salmon

Black Rock Fishing Pinkies Salmon. Its the start of April and I teamed up with Rob Kriz from Robs fishing adventures. We had an amazing fishing session on Port Phillip bay around Black Rock. We launched in Robs runabout boat from Altona in some choppy conditions on day break and […]

Mornington bronze whaler shark

Local young gun angler Kurtis Campbell headed out to Port Phillip Bay with Brett Reed from Reedy’s Rigs. The guys launched from Mornington and decided to do a night session. Something different to spark some interest and see if they can land something big. Using 6-8 kilo snapper rods and […]

Phillip island Ryhll pier

Mark ventured down to Phillip island for the labour day long weekend. Hoping to sneak in a fish Mark packed light only taking his ultra light spinning rod and a packet of soft plastics. On Monday morning he ventured out to Ryhll pier with his brother. Mark was using the […]

Port Phillip Bay Squid and Flathead

It was the labour day long weekend in Melbourne. Alan launched from Altona with a couple of close mates, Mark, Michale and Nahid. The weather was perfect, and the fishing was great. We first headed to shallow squid grounds towards point cook fishing depths between 3-6 meters deep. We fished […]

Altona fishing on a Seadoo Fish pro

March the 3rd Alan teamed up with many other local jet ski and fishing enthusiasts. All this for the Melbourne Seadoo fishing competition held at Altona. Unfortunately the conditions were 40k northerly winds which made the going really tough. Because of the high wind and swell the guys took off […]

X