The flatty fishing just keeps getting better

Gippsland Lakes

Brett Geddes b.geddes@bigpond.com

It seems that with the passing of each month I’m reporting in with more amazing stories of bigger fish and more of them! With commercial netting gone for nearly three years now, and two years of life-giving floods, I have to tell you the Gippy Lakes really is going from strength to strength, and the standout species this month are the whiting, black bream and especially huge dusky flathead.

KING GEORGE ‘TINGS

The whiting action has hardly slowed down over the last four months, but the sizes have improved for sure. Even as the coloured floodwater slowly clears from the western parts of this huge estuary system, it doesn’t really stop the whiting bite.

Alison and Rod Tatterson make Lakes Entrance their home for about a month over their holiday break and they have got the whiting sorted. Using bits of prawn and pipi for bait, they have been bagging a ripper feed each trip. With her first cast for the holidays Alison wrestled in a cracker 43cm King George slab, and it wasn’t her only big fish for the day.

It seems the whiting have yet to push up in towards Paynesville or

Raymond Island like last year, so the best option is to try from Metung down to the entrance. If you don’t get fish in about 30 minutes, it pays to move until the bites come thick and fast. Often you get short bite windows,