Victorian Piers- Fishing environment guide
Victorian Piers
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Victorian Piers
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Altona Pier
The end of the pier is where the water is deepest. Fishing is usually best here when the tide is coming in. I’ve seen whiting feeding right at the …
Cunningham Pier
Cunningham Pier is a long land-based platform on the Geelong waterfront, extending nearly 350m into Corio Bay and giving shore anglers access to …
Ferguson Street Pier
Ferguson Street Pier is near Melbourne, which means it can get pretty crowded in the peak summer months during the summer holidays. But if you go …
Flinders Pier
Flinders Pier is a long Western Port pier with land-based access to squid, whiting, leatherjacket, Australian salmon, flathead and other seasonal …
Gem Pier
Gem Pier in Williamstown is steeped in history. So if you’d like to try an awesome experience of mixing fishing with some fantastic Melbourne history, …
Kerferd Road Pier
Kerferd Road Pier fishing offers a simple, easy-to-access pier that produces the usual fishing species on Port Phillip Bay. Snapper, Flathead, …
Lagoon Pier
This pier is considered open year-round. Because it’s so close to the city and the suburb of Port Melbourne it can get busy at times. I’ve tended to …
Mordialloc Creek
The footpaths and well-made concrete walls make Mordialloc Creek fishing one of the most comfortable in Melbourne. While you will see people at …
Mordialloc Pier
Traditionaly Mordi pier offers a variety of fishing opportunities due to this length. Mordialloc Pier is a beautiful long pier extending 174 metres …
Mornington Pier
Mornington Pier sits on the eastern side of Port Phillip Bay on the Mornington Peninsula, about 35 minutes from Dandenong. It is a heavily used …
Port Melbourne
Port Melbourne fishing is one of those experiences that many lifetime fishos from Melbourne are likely to hold fondly. I know I certainly do. For over …
Portarlington Pier
This has become a pretty comfortable pier to fish. It has seen major upgrades and is a good modern pier. Fish for Australian Salmon, Flathead, Pinkies …
Werribee South Beach
Werribee South gives anglers several nearby options, including the [pier[(/vic/werribee-south-pier/), [foreshore[(/vic/weribee-south-beach, river …
Werribee South Pier
Werribee South Pier sits at the Werribee River estuary, beside the Werribee boat ramp and close to the adjoining Werribee South beach. It is a …
Pier Fishing
Pier fishing is different from fishing on a boat or on the beach or a river or a rock platform. It is easy to get to. The water is always changing which means the fish are always doing something different. Piers go out into the water so you do not need a boat to catch fish that are far away from the shore.
Structure
Pier fishing is land-based fishing from fixed structures that give anglers access to deeper water, current lines, channels, pylons and nearby reef or mud banks. Western Port examples such as Cowes, Corinella, Stony Point, Flinders, Grantville, Rhyll, Warneet and Mornington show that each pier fishes differently according to depth, tide, structure and target species.
Environmental Affecting Piers
The key condition is matching the pier and tide to the fish being targeted. Some species feed near the bottom, while salmon and trevally can be drawn into a berley trail around pylons. Snapper are more seasonal, with October to December highlighted for bay spawning movement, while elephant fish are noted from February to early May around several Western Port piers.
Practical tactics are simple but specific. Gummies and flathead require baits on or near the bottom, while salmon and trevally respond to small hooks, light outfits and baits cast into a surface berley trail near pylons. Whiting can be encouraged with a small berley pot on the sea floor, then repeated casts to the same patch once a fish is found.
Gear depends on the target rather than the pier itself. Heavy 12ft surf rods and 20-30lb mainline are supported for casting shark baits into deeper channels, while 2-4kg outfits and 12lb leader suit salmon and trevally around structure. Always take rubbish away from piers, because discarded bait bags and cans are specifically called out as a problem.
Best Times
The best time to go pier fishing is different depending on the time of year. Some piers are better when it is warm and the fish that migrate are in the bays and the rivers and some piers are better when it is cooler and the fish that live there all the time are active around the pier.
Every pier is unique. The depth of the water and the way it is moving and what the bottom of the sea is made of and what is, around the pier all affect how the fish behave and how people who like to fish should fish there.
Using Getfished To Find Out About A Pier
Choose a Victorian pier that you interested in from the piers above. Click it and then read the page to find out the current conditions, forecast and fishing reports collected about that pier. This will help you take into account water temperature, the wind, tides, solunar bite times and what other anglers have done.