Portland Sport Fishing Club

01/06/2026

The final round of the 2025/26 Victorian State Sportfishing Championship was hosted by Greensborough Angling Club at Bonnie Doon Lakeside Leisure Resort.

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Yet another great event, with a few new State Champions and a couple retaining their position (more on that later).

With roughly 10 weeks until the 2026/27 State Championship starts, now is the time to get involved by joining an affiliated club or having your club teach out to ANSA Victoria via Facebook.

30/03/2026

Round 6 of the ANSA Victorian Sportfishing Championship was held over the weekend at the Nelson. It was again a length based competion where centimetres and fighting factor determine points scored for the best 3 of each nominated species.
47 entrants from 6 clubs competed in conditions that varied from damp to sunny and back and forth most of Day one to a great weather Sunday for day two.
The river entrance remained closed and there lots of reports of small Perch and Bream.

Best of Species awards:
BREAM:
Fred Camilleri - Portland (46cm Fork length).
ESTUARY PERCH:
Bernie Lock - Melton (41cm)
Fred Bizouard - Southern Boat (41cm).
MULLOWAY:
Frank Naylor - Southern Boat (61cm).

Individual winners:
SUB JUNIOR FEMALE: Isobella Petroppulos - Portland (102pts) *first ANSA event.
JUNIOR MALE: Athony Di Santo -Southern Boat (162.8pts).
FEMALE: Susan Chapman - Southern Boat (115.2pts).
MALE: Frank Naylor - Southern Boat (325pts).

Teams:
JUNIOR: Portland 1 (254.1pts).
Isobella Petropoulos, Maddison Humphrey, Callum Richardson.

SENIOR: Southern Boat 2 (1026.7pts).
Tony Dickson, Travis Hamilton, Phil Gowans, Frank Naylor.

A huge thank you to everyone that attended represenying their clubs as well as the Portland members that helped, be it providing salads, cooking, cleaning or entering results etc. and David and Terry for transporting the equiment to the next hosts.

Next Round is at Apollo Bay May 2nd & 3rd.

02/03/2026

Wednesday 11th March from 6:30pm is your chance to learn a few tricks about chasing Estuary Perch with Daniel of Ozfish who has offered his time to pass on his learnings from over a period of time exploring the Glenelg River system.
With a club event planned for the end of March, this could be some useful tips.

See ya there.

22/02/2026

Hot weather greeted teams in the annual Western District Anglers Association team shield comp at Rocklands. The temperature got into the mid 30's with little to no breeze for most of the day.
Hamilton Team 2 took the honours in the Senior section, with Portland Team 3 finishing a credible second.
Portland Team 1 tied with Merino Team 1 for third place.

Our Junior team endured the hot conditions and were rewarded with the win in their section.

The president walked away with the raffle after buying the last ticket sold.

Well done to Hamilton Angling Club for hosting this years comp and for the variation in format.

09/02/2026

Round 4 of the ANSA Victorian Sportfishing Championship was hosted by Portland over the weekend.
9 clubs were represented by the 65 competitors, who photographed a total of 156 eligible fish, which were made up of 18 different species.
Travis Hamilton from Southern Boat Club took out the highest pointscoring landbased award with a Bream of 45.6pts.
His fellow club member Tony Dickson had the Highest Pointscoring Bluefin Tuna with a fish of 135pts.
Other winners were:
Sub Jnr Female Remi Bramble (S/Boat club).
Sub Jnr Male: Lincoln Bramble (S/Boat club).
Jnr Male: Anthony Di Santo (S/Boat club).
Junior Team: Southern Boat #1.
Snr Female: Susan Chapman (S/Boat club).
Snr Male: Tony Dickson (S/Boat club).
Senior Team: Southern Boat #2 (Susan Chapman, George Di Santo, Travis Hamilton, Tony Dickson) with 1224pts.

Pictured are the recipients of prizes from Lone Star Marine, Beyond Bank Portland and Anaconda Warrnambool.

A huge thank you to all competitors and families, club members and our ever supportive sponsors:
Reece Plumbing Portland.
Lawrence & Hanson Portland
South Coast Pump Services
Compleat Angler Portland
BCF Warrnambool
Anaconda Warrnambool
Lone Star Marine
Bunnings Portland
Beyond Bank

24/12/2025

Wishing our members, club supporters all the best for Christmas and a great 2026.

16/10/2025

Don't forget to call into Portland Compleat Angler and register if you're attending one of this Sunday's Gone Fishing sessions.

GONE FISHING DAY 😀
Bring the family and get into fishing 🎣
19th of October
Registrations at the shop or call in for any information .
Great opportunity to learn something new or just pick up some handy hints .👍
Happy fishing 🎣 🎣🎣

06/10/2025

Ben Johnstone scored this 128kg (clean) Tuna this morning.
One of two for Matthew Hunt fishing.

Well done.