• VRFish Calls on Premier to Guarantee Snapper Season

    VRFish has called on Premier Dan Andrews to open safe recreational fishing and boating for all Melburnians and guarantee access to our iconic snapper season in Port Phillip Bay and

  • Stonker Trout Stocked Across Melbourne

    Photo sent in by @jcs.fishing.adventures A massive 500 ‘stonker’ rainbow trout will be stocked across 18 family fishing lakes in Metro Melbourne! Family fishing lakes provide a great opportunity for

  • New Reefs To Make Fishing Better In Geelong

    VRFish is thrilled with the upcoming construction of new recreational fishing reefs near Geelong, as announced by Minister for Fishing and Boating Melissa Horne today. The reefs will provide enhanced

  • VRFish Plan for Return of Fishing in Melbourne

    Buoyed by the Victorian Government’s COVID-roadmap being ahead of schedule VRFish has written to the Premier to call for the safe return of fishing in Metro Melbourne. VRFish Chairman, Mr. Rob

  • VRFish Welcomes Ben Scullin

    VRFish has welcomed Ben Scullin on board as our new Advocacy and Member Co-ordinator.  This brand-new role will see Ben focus on delivering further value to Victoria’s 838,000 recreational fishers

  • Plan to Rebound the Gippsland Lakes

    VRFish is thrilled with the release of the draft Gippsland Lakes Recovery Plan which outlines the suggested next steps to rebound the beloved fishery back to a premier fishing destination.

  • Join VRFish Victoria's recreational fishing peak body

    Join Victoria’s Largest Recreational Fishing Community

    VRFish, the peak body for recreational fishing in Victoria, is inviting all Victorian recfishers to join Victoria’s largest recreational fishing community. Last year, VRFish entered a new era after we

  • COVID Roadmap and Fishing

    15 September 2020 Last weekend, Premier Andrews announced the Victorian Government’s roadmap out from the ‘second wave’ of COVID-19 restrictions. So, what’s the plan for reopening for fishing and boating?

  • Gone Fishing Day Goes Digital

    Your national peak body for recfishing, Australian Recreational Fishing Foundation (ARFF), is calling on the nation’s fishers to get involved with Australia’s biggest celebration of recreational fishing, National Gone Fishing

  • Celebrating Trout Opening in Isolation

    All keen trout fishos will have spent their winter counting down to this Saturday the 5th September as it marks the opening of river trout season. Last year, the banks

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