Lake Tyers in East Gippsland: How and When to Fish It

• Overview

  You will find Lake Tyers in East Gippsland, Victoria. This is dry hill ground. Lakes Entrance lies 11 km from the water. The big place round here is Melbourne, 277 km distant. Also worth knowing: Lake Bunga a touch under 7.3 km, North Arm a shade over 12 km, Lake King a touch under 32 km, Lake Corringle a shade over 34 km and Lake Wat Wat a touch under 36 km. The nearest boundary is well away, so one set of rules covers the water.

• Where to Fish on Lake Tyers

  Depth is not on record here, so the bank has to tell you. Salt or brackish and tidal: fish the flow, rest at slack, and watch the mud on a falling tide. Tide runs this water, so time the session to the flow. The channel is where water moves, and fish follow it. Species logged nearby in open biodiversity records include black bream, flathead grey mullet and dusky flathead. Check the state or provincial list before planning around one species. Lake Tyers responds to conditions more than to tactics.

• Seasonal Patterns

  February runs about 20°C on average, July about 10°C. The year never really closes; it just gets uncomfortable in summer. Spring runs September to November and autumn March to May, and both fish well. March through May and September through November are the strong stretches. The season on Lake Tyers follows the weather closely.

• Tackle & Baits

  Public sources are silent on who controls the bank. A pier 1.2 km from here gives a platform over deeper water. Largemouth respond to soft plastics tight to cover; go weedless where the growth is heavy. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. Keep proof of licence with you rather than in the car. Should this one be busy, Lake Bunga is 7.3 km off. Signs at Lake Tyers carry more weight than any list.