Covering over 600 square kilometres, the Gippsland Lakes are Australia’s largest and most beautiful inland waterways.
What is the best way to communicate with a fish?
Drop it a line.
Apologies for starting with a bad joke, but I think it’s appropriate given this story involves a coastal town with a rich fishing history. Everywhere I go around Lakes Entrance people are fishing.They are casting surf rods off beaches, lobbing lures into estuaries, angling from jetties and trawling their boats around the many Gippsland Lakes waterways. To say the locals love fishing is stating the bleeding obvious!
For example, while strolling around a jetty along the esplanade I pass a teenager dropping a line around the moored yachts.
“How are they biting mate” I ask.
“Got a couple but just lost a monster. It was huge” he replies.
Full article in October’15 issue of On The Road magazine.