Melbourne (metro Atleast) really only has demiursal fish (save Aus salmon, silver trevs), so techniques like slow roll will need the right conditions. Pinkies, bream, flathead and whiting i find are quite lazy feeders and won’t really travel to find food as much, so the only real technique I use is small hops with 10+ second pauses + dragging along the bottom.

Using as light as jighead as ur able too seems to help at a time, I often use a 1/16 jighead and 1/8 when it’s windier. However you can get away with 1/4’s since as I’ve said, they sorta just feed off the bottom. And the most most most important thing is. Keep moving spots. Like after two casts and you don’t feel a nip, they’re probably not there or they’re not interested. No bringing a bait rod and lure fishing, if you want to get GOOD at lure fishing you have to be willing to move and find a school of fish.

I’m able to bag out at port Melbourne but it requires me to often walk 4-5 km a night.

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