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Aargh...When are the monster squid going to show up at Queenscliff and Flinders?
Fresh air, tight lines, scales, slime and fins, 'tis the salty sea dog life for me. Arrrgh!
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Good question!!! Probably in 2 months! <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':ink' />
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Hi All
Fished down at Portsea on Friday night with Brighty. Managed a few small squid, some blokes down the end of the pier managed a Mammo Squid to 3.5kgs using whole pilchards on skewer style jigs under floats at about 10pm. Heading down thursday night to snag me a few of those big ones. Will let you know how I fare.
Cheers
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Beautiful day Wednesday saw me and a mate down at Portsea before sunset. Loving the daylight savings!
Caught 2 squid at 1kg. Been a while since I've squidded. But good to see that they are still around. Quite a number of fellow squidders, just a matter of luck and patience.
Tight lines,
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I went on Sat nite first time in a few months caught 5 squid up to 1 kgs and 2 cuttle fish one was 2kgs and the 2nd one was around 4ish. If you wanna have a good work out bloody try pulling up a cuttle fish.
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heading out to portsea pier tomoro morning. prob 6am. hope to catch my first squid in a very very long time. just wondering is it a good idea to go after all that rain ??? forecast on saturday is 24 mostly sunny. do they still come out after the huge downfall for the past 2 weeks. the water should be flooded and very smurky ???
quick question, anyone have luck catching squid on rainy days???
thanks
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it never seemed to help me!
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just checked the melway for directions to portsea.... <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':rod:' /> <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':th' /> <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':th' /> did not know it was that far at all... i thought it was before sorrento. oh wells... heres a good 2 hour drive at 4am. hope it will be worth it.
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yep it is a long way from town!!! hope you catch a few!
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yes !!!! i finally have a report. took forever to get to portsea, its so far !!!
fished at 6:30am-11:30am. caught 2 squids. dont know the weigh or size but its triple the size of what is caught at mornington.
i tried fishing with a baited jig for the first time, did it wrong so a guy that was there showed me how. however nobody using a baited jig caught any. they were only coming off the artificial jigs and 1 every hour or so. was a very slow day. wasnt what i expected of portsea. i hear alot of story and was expecting like a big pier with lots of people because its a popular fishing place. but boy, its so quiet there all i can hear is waves.
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hi mikii, thanks for the report! were any cuttlefish caught?
cheers, glen
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nah no cuttlefish. saw a lady catch a garfish though.
anyways my parents went out to portsea today from 9:30am- 2pm. no luck at all. however my cousin caught 2 little ones, the size of a hand, off 1.8 jigs. it was my parents first time in portsea, they usually go mornington. i was dissapointed that they didnt catch any because i wanted to prove to them that my 2.5 jigs that i bought worked very good. paid 25bux for them... and that baited jigs are the way to go at portsea + 2.5 artificial jigs. not their tiny 1.8 jigs that they use at mornington catching little baby squids. they said no1 else caugh anything.
i think the weather was abit poor for squidding.
anyone else have any reports anywhere in melb??? its been very quiet with posting in vic
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