Queenscliff report - VIC

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[quote name='MICKEY G' post='7020' date='Jun 21 2006, 06:53 PM']QUEENSCLIFF PIER WAS EMPTY APART FROM ONE COUPLE FISHING UNDER THE SECOND LIGHT .

FREEZING COLD AND AT 2AM NOTHING FOR 2 HOURS THEN BANG TO SMALL SQUID IN ABOUT A MINUTE THAT WAS ALL FOR THE NIGHT....STILL THE COLD WEATHER IS MUCH BETTER THAN THE BIG CROWDS IN SUMMER TIME ....[/quote]



Gday Mickey



I calculated by the times you stated that you maybe fishing at the wrong times



Fish two hours before the high tide a good time at queenscliff in the winter is with a high tide after middnight.

The size is a bit small around the 20 cm hood length but a bag of these makes a decent meal.

Freezing is part and parcel when your fishing for squid at Queenscliff because they seem to come on the bite at 3 in the morning in the winter and the run lasts about half hour.Ive bagged out many times while suffering near hyperthermia.It is not uncommon to see schools of these small squid around the pier in the winter as they are the offspring from last years season.Most times its the last two hours of the rising tide and the first two of the run out tide that will give you results preferably with a light w/sw wind, if you have these conditions then your chance improve ten fold.



And yes its heaps better during the winter, while the squid arnt as big( but you do get the occassional monster) there arnt anywhere near as many people about,Id have to say that Ive caught my best bags when the peir was near empty



And just a word of caution being winter there will be some huge cuttlefish around the peirs as was around this time last year so watch your rods as these guys have the ability to snap rods in half



Cheers

Wally