Mordialloc Pier and surrounds - VIC

[glen]

well done with the trevally. i have never caught a (victorian) trevally on a lure.

[gokentech]

Went to Mordialloc pier yesterday started to squid fish around 7pm till about 11pm. So my mate and I had about 4 hours there. Didn’t catch or lose any squid. From what I could see the other 25 or so people there fishing had there rods rigged up for fishing medium sized fish and some for garfish.



I’m pretty sure we were the only ones trying to catch squid. I had this ethic guy (maybe Greek or some sort of Arab) come up and asked me what I was fishing for. I told him; squid. He replied back “your fishing at the wrong time, you need to fish in March”. I said “But I caught 4 last week at Portsea pier”. He said “No no portsea is different, that’s there specialty down there”.



So yeah don’t think I’ll ever go back to Mordialloc, too many people and it has a bad atmosphere; teenagers drunk and jumping off the pier. I’ll just stick to Portsea; it’s only an hr’s drive for me away.

[glen]

hi ken,



you probably picked a bad night! it was a particularly hot night so you need to expect a few drunks and loud mouths.



I experienced the same thing at Frankston pier last year on a hot night. It certainly does take away from the "serenity" of fishing! I was glad to go home!



Cheers, Glen

[hakonayak]

Hey guys took the trusty kayaks outwith a mate to olivers hill frankston and cought 3 sqid in first half hour slowed up a lil bit were plenty of fish about jumping and schooling up under us inabout 5mts water ..nice morning on the water cheers paul <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':th' />

[glen]

hi paul, what type of fish were they? salmon?



cheers, glen

[blinkings]

A few of us went to Mordialloc tonight around 6pm and stayed till 10pm. None of us caught anything! The water was clear. We worked all parts of the pier (yes even the closed off section)...especially concentrating on sections close to the lights....but nothing. I went through just about every jig I had and not a thing!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! Talking to the other squid fisherman on the pier returned similar answers. So we went to the pub instead!

<img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/beer_mug.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':oops' /> <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/beer_mug.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':th' /> <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/beer_mug.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':beer' />

   

[glen]

hi blinkings, thanks for the report. it was pretty bad at mt martha today as well. <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':oops' />

[blinkings]

[quote name='glen' post='14109' date='Mar 29 2009, 12:14 AM']hi blinkings, thanks for the report. it was pretty bad at mt martha today as well. <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':oops' />[/quote]

Thats good cos misery loves company!

[sodden]

I haven't been to mordi for a bit. Which part is closed off? I'm guessing the end (cos it's a straight pier).

How far back? to the shelter?

[blinkings]

[quote name='sodden' post='14111' date='Mar 29 2009, 12:29 AM']I haven't been to mordi for a bit. Which part is closed off? I'm guessing the end (cos it's a straight pier).

How far back? to the shelter?[/quote]

Its been closed for a while whilst it has been rebuilt. Pretty much the second half (deep end!!) has been locked off with a cyclone fence for ages. Errrm the fence is probably 25 metres past the shelter towards the beach...but the fence now has been ripped to pieces by the locals. So its all open! There are one or two railings unfinished at one spot, but other than that it looks all done and is solid! You can see part of the fence in my photo above.

[blinkings]

The Mordi pier is now fully open. I didn't catch anything today so I took a pics instead!

   

[glen]

Hahaha. Is that after the repairs? Lots of rust!!!

[blinkings]

    [quote name='glen' post='14152' date='Apr 1 2009, 05:02 PM']Hahaha. Is that after the repairs? Lots of rust!!![/quote]

Hi mate. Um strange as it may seem...YES this is AFTER the repairs!!!! <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

[blinkings]

I have just spent 5 hours at Mordi pier today trying for squid and salmon....and got NOTHING! Oh well it was better than watching TV! These two were the closest thing I saw to marine life!

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