Warrnambool And District Angling Club

Well our local system sure did turn it on for round 4 of the Vic Bream Classics! 🎣

Congratulations to our members who fished and scored a top 10 finish!

A huge congrats to Lewis Holland and Jessica Lane who took out the win weighing 10/10 fish for 9.475 kg 🏆

To Michael hunt and his team mate Rhett Sandy coming in 6 th with 7.620 kg 👏🏻

And to committee members Corey McLaren and Adam Brown coming in 10 th with 6.895 kg 👏🏻

And to everyone else who represented our Angling club! 🐟

🏆 BARRY THOMAS MEMORIAL RESULTS 🏆

Well the Barry Thomas Memorial comp has been run and won! 🥇

With Baz up there looking after us with the weather 😉 🌧️ We hit the Hopkins with some tough fishing for majority of the anglers!

One Angler though got them to bite and took out both heaviest bag and the Barry Thomas memorial trophy! 🏆

Heaviest bag: Shane Murphy with a cracker bag of 4.691 kg 👏🏻

Heaviest fish: Shane Murphy 1.089 kg 👏🏻

Heaviest fish Ladies: Carmel Lane 1.036 kg 👏🏻

Heaviest fish Jnrs: Flynn Collins .800 kg 👏🏻

Big thanks to everyone who turned out today and helped 🙌🏻 Our next comp is 13 h September at the Fitzroy 🎣

Memberships will be available this Sunday 9th August at our first competition for the season!

Thank you to everyone who attended our AGM and had their say! We are excited to announce the new office bearers for our upcoming season. Please welcome your new team 👏🏼 We also have a wonderful committee with some old faces jumping back onboard 😊

CALLING ALL RECREATIONAL ANGLERS! 📣

Have your say on the proposed changes to Mulloway bag limits and size limits! 🎣

While also having a read up on some useful information as well!

The mighty Mulloway is a bucket list species for many of you keen anglers out there – and we want your thoughts on proposed changes aiming to help more anglers experience this elusive estuarine fish.

Following our review of the latest science and conversations with anglers, we’re now consulting broadly on the following proposed Mulloway Improvement Program.

It’s a package of short, medium, and long-term actions aimed to create a stronger and thriving mulloway fishery in Victoria, including:
➡️ Change current bag limit of 5 mulloway per person per day to 2 mulloway per person per day – a more reasonable day’s take if we want to maintain healthy fisheries.
➡️ Change minimum size limit from 60cm to 70cm – this will give the species around 10 months further protection in estuaries, allow more fish to reach spawning size, and align the limit with New South Wales.
➡️ Restart a dedicated angler tagging program for Mulloway to continue understanding growth, movement and connectivity of the species, complementing tagging programs in South Australia and New South Wales.
➡️ Expand on a project to scientifically track mulloway around Melbourne Rivers to better understand mulloway habitat use, spawning and movement, particularly with respect to flows.
➡️ Trial the stocking of Mulloway in key Victorian estuaries to improve populations and fisheries for the species.

Have your say and provide feedback by 15 August 2026. Find out more here: www.vfa.vic.gov.au/mulloway

AGM tomorrow night 7:00pm! Everyone welcome 😁