Victorian Piers- Fishing environment guide
Victorian Piers
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Alcoa Pier
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Altona Pier
Altona Pier in Hobson’s Bay extends over shallow water nearly to the end. There, the sandy bottom suddenly drops to about 5 metres deep. The …
Apollo Bay
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Barwon Heads
Barwon Heads Fishing Guide Barwon Heads sits at the lower end of the Barwon River estuary and has plenty of options for both land and boat fishing. …
Beaumaris Jetty
Beaumaris Pier Fishing Guide Beaumaris Jetty is a small public pier beside the Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron on Pelican Quays. You’ll find it …
Blairgowrie Pier
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Brighton Breakwall
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Corinella Pier
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Corio Bay
Geelong’s Jewel: A Bay Within A Bay Corio Bay is a great spot to launch your boat or fish from the shore. If you’re starting, try easy-to-reach …
Couta Bay Jetty
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Cowes
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Cunningham Pier
Cunningham Pier Cunningham Pier stretches almost 350 meters into Corio Bay from the Geelong waterfront, giving shore anglers access to deeper water. …
Dromana Pier
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Ferguson Street Pier
Ferguson Street Pier Fishing Guide Ferguson Street Pier is near Melbourne, so that it can get crowded during the summer holidays. For a quieter trip, …
Fisherman's Pier
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Flinders Pier
Flinders Pier is a long Western Port pier with land-based access to squid, whiting, leatherjacket, Australian salmon, flathead and other seasonal …
Frankston Pier
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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, …
Half Moon Bay
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Inverloch Pier
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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 …
Lorne
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Lorne Pier
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Middle Brighton Pier
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Mordialloc Creek
Mordialloc Creek is a favourite fishing spot in Melbourne because it has easy footpaths and sturdy concrete walls. Many people use traditional bait at …
Mordialloc Pier
Mordialloc Pier: A Great Spot for Fishing Mordialloc Pier is a popular fishing spot, thanks in part to its length. It stretches 174 metres (570.86 …
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 …
Olivers Hill
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Point Lonsdale
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Point Lonsdale Pier
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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 …
Port Phillip Bay
Port Phillip Bay Fishing Guide Port Phillip Bay links Bass Strait with the Southern Ocean. Port Phillip Bay is a large estuary with plenty of fish. …
Portarlington
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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 …
Portsea Pier
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Queenscliff Harbour
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Rosebud Pier
Rosebud Pier performs best for Squid and Garfish. While its a nice long pier the surrounding water is a bit shallow for other species to be relied …
Rye Pier
Rye gets packed out during the summer holiday period in particular. Its a family holiday spot for many due it Rye’s extensive shopping district, …
San Remo
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Seaford Pier
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Sorrento Jetty
Not a common destination, this little jetty is right next to the boat ramp. It does in fact attract a variety of fish species throughout the year and …
Sorrento Pier
Sorrento Pier has always fished well and as you might expect is pretty popular. Especially in the summer months. The gotcha is you’re sharing …
St Kilda Pier
St Kilda Pier Fishing on a warm summer’s night was how I started targeting flathead and pinkies as a teenager. It has had major modifications in the …
St Leonards
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Stony Point
Stony Point Pier is a land-based Western Port fishing location on the western side of the Mornington Peninsula, reached from the end of Stony Point …
Warneet Pier
Warneet Pier sits on the northern end of Western Port, reached from Rutherford Parade with reasonable car parking, public toilets and a barbecue area …
Werribee River Mouth
Werribee South River Mouth is an estuary-to-bay fishing spot where the Werribee River meets Port Phillip Bay. Shore-based anglers have the river …
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 …
Western Port
Western Port’s Tides Are Much Bigger Than Port Phillip Bay’s Western Port has many piers where you can catch a variety of fish. Light tackle works …
Williamstown
Williamstown Fishing Guide Williamstown fishing goes back to the early days of Melbourne. Located on Port ferguson-street-pier/Phillip Bay right …
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. As a general rule the best time of day tends to be dawn and dusk. Starting an hour or so before sunrise or sunset and extending a few hours after.
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.
Where a pier is subject to large tidal variations between low and high a high tide might be the only time there’s sufficient water to hold fish.
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.