14-03-2006, 01:22 PM
My all time favorite SP for Port Philip Bay is a Berkely 3" dropshot minnow in Bloodworm colour. Other good colours are pearl watermelon, pumpkinseed, pearl blue, rainbow, or anything in the berkely GULP! range about 3" or so long. Match with a 1/8 ounce jighead with #1-1/0 hook and you should get amongst them. Something else that will help with your SP fishing is using gelspun or braided line (I use fireline), and a graphite rod - you will feel 10X more bites than with mono line on a normal rod. And some of the hits on SP are very subtle, so you need all the help you can get. You will be suprised what you can catch on an SP in Port Philip: flathead, snapper, goatfish, squid, garfish, leatherjackets, silver dory, barracouta, snook, pike, banjo sharks, trevally, the list goes on.