East Gippsland continues to offer up excellent fishing from numerous popular locations.
Lakes Entrance – Head to the footbridge for whiting, snapper and trevally, Bullock Island is great in the morning for bream, mullet, tailor and salmon, biting on sandworm or local prawn. Even metal lures will produce decent results. Surf beaches for salmon and tailor. Anglers are catching a nice mixed bag offshore. Prawns are in the lake, particularly around Kalimna Jetty.
Lake Tyers – Flathead are active along the shallow areas of the system taking soft plastics. For bream try sandworm or neutral coloured hard body lures. Tailor are also in abundance chasing lures. Prawns are also running.
Mitchell River – Decent sized flathead are being caught around the Old Butter Factory and further down around the Silt Jetties with local prawn. Bream and tailor are active near the river mouth.
Tambo River – There have been reports of the odd mulloway hanging out in the river and in the lake system. The river mouth is also worth a shot.
Nicholson – Best spots for bream are between the Two Bridges, The Swimming Hole and around the river mouth, taking local prawn and soft plastics.
Metung – For whiting and flathead try along the town jetties, structures and Boardwalk using local prawn. The odd tailor can be found around the back beaches chasing metal lures
Paynesville/Loch Sport – Gummy shark are being landed over on the beach along with snapper, salmon, and flathead. Out on the lakes, mullet, garfish and tailor are around, while black bream are chasing prawn chunks, hard-body and soft-plastic lures. Focus on sandy stretches in the shallows along the lake front, with white soft plastics proving especially effective. Plenty of bait fish and mussels in the lake as well.
Marlo – Bream and luderick are in the estuary taking mussels, pippies or local prawn. Gummies and bronze whalers can be found off the beach and offshore. Australian salmon, yellow tail kingfish and calamari are giving anglers some fun offshore.
Bemm River – Prawns and flathead are in the system. Australian salmon are being landed from the beach.
Mallacoota – The bottom lake may still be a bit discoloured with all the unsettling conditions in the area. Bream can be found up around Dahl Bank. Flathead are in the lake also the odd flounder can be found in the top lake biting on soft plastics.
