Over the past couple of months the Hawkesbury River has been fishing realyy slow, but there has still been the odd good catch come in. From Spencer to Pumkin Point the bream have been feeding up against the edge of the mangroves when the tides have been high. They have then moved out to the deeper to work the edges of the drop off’s. I have found that over the years when fishing the Hawkesbury River when there is a fair bit of run in the water you will need to fish with a leader of between 1 to 2 metres in length. This will get you away from those pesky catfish and onto a few bream and mulloway the Hawkesbury River is renown for.
Even though many of the Oyster lease have been pulled out you can still anchor up beside them and berley up a few bream. The rock walls and mud flats in the Berowra Waters area are producing bream and dusky flathead on the rising tide. Try using mullet and chicken gut, blood worms, pink nippers and half pilly tails.

The kingfish have start to increase in numbers in the Pittwater. Try the entrance to Carreel Bay and around Scottland Island. Live Baits and trolled Rapallas are the go. Scottland Island also has a few bream and luderick schooling up in the deeper water off the south –eastern side of the island. Plenty of berley needs to be used.
Sydney Kings have also started to show up with the schools of australian salmon around all the usual spots in the lower parts of the Harbour. Sow and pIgs would be a good place to start your fishing trip for dusky flathead, silver trevally and yellowfin bream. There are also a few luderick and leatherjackets being caught there as well.
If you are going to eat tailor after you have caught them. This photo here shows you how not to keep them. They need to be bled staright away and then put on ice, otherwise the fish will be like mush and won't taste the best.
If you are after a few leatherjackets in Middle Harbour you could try fishing the rocky shoreline in Bantry Bay.
Botany Bay still has plenty of silver trevally on offer. The yellowfin bream have been a bit slow, but they are starting to pick up. Australian salmon can be trolled up on lures on the southern side of the entrance to Botany Bay. Kingfish and snapper are being caught off the lighthouse at Kurnell.
The 50 to 60 metre mark off Maroubra is still producing good catches of sand flathead.
The Georges and Woronora Rivers have been a little bit slow over the last week, but there has been a couple of good reports come in from the old Woronora Bridge and Soily Point for luderick and bream. The odd mulloway has been lured up on soft plastics in the deeper water at the area called the Moons.
I have just updated my web site with 7 new questions that have been sent in from readers and my answers back to them. I have also put up a new book and DVD review. So when you get a chance check them out. Also to wet your appeitite for a bit more kingfish fishing I have also included a review on the following DVD.
2 Dans Fishing – The Kingfish Sessions
Best friends Dan Trotter and Dan Burgess have put together a very entertaining, educational and fun DVD on how to target kingfish with live and dead baits. There is also a small session on using knife jigs over an off shore just north of Sydney Harbour.
The DVD is aimed at anyone who fishes, be they beginners or die hard addicts. The DVD has over 2 and a half hours of content, 1 hour and 15 minute feature plus 1 and a half hour of extras.
There are five menu chapters detailing boat layout, bait-catching, knots, tackle talk and product ranges, plus and an awesome cooking segment brought to you by Manu Feildel and Damian Heads, 2 of Sydney's top chefs, even though I personally think that it (cooking segment) does go on a bit to long.
The 2 Dans take you through some great kingfish action while fighting them with handlines on springers, overhead rod and reels and the old trusty spinning outfit. There are some huge bust off’s, great action, terrific scenery and plenty of other fish species that were caught during the filming. Species like samson fish, snapper, silver trevally and cuttlefish.
RRP is $24.95, for more information go to http://www.fishermandan.com.au/or for trade enquiries contact Black Pete Marine on (02) 9907 7177
Carl from http://www.kayakfishingsydney.com/ reports that with the weather warming up that it means that those great Australian Bass are a realistic target again. Sure, you can still get them through winter, but those balmy summer days when they are smashing lures off the surface are pure magic! Carl called Mick Munns from East Coast Lures and he met him at Tench Reserve in the early morning twilight. Mick had a few new lures to show Carl and the twin blade spinners look absolutely sensational.
The reports from the Nepean have been good but they've been from way up in the gorge and we weren't planning on venturing that far in their kayak’s so they stuck close to the ramp and tried working the surface we various fizzers and poppers but there was no action on top. Give the water another few degrees and I'm sure they'll come on the chew.
For more on what happen during the rest of the morning why don’t you pay a visit to his web site at http://www.kayakfishingsydney.com/
Scotty Lyons from Southern Sydney Fishing Tours http://www.fishingsydney.com.au/ reports the weather was as good as it get out on Botany Bay last Thursday. The class started at the Hot water oulet, but again no results spinning with metals on first light this has been the same no for a few weeks but still worth a try. Trevally Alley was next and we scored a nice fish on the first bait but then they went of only catching three. They then trolled Yarra Bay and scored two tailor smaller fish around 40cms.Next headed to the bottom end of Yarra for one nice Flathead on a plastic.Scott’s next singles day is on the 7th of October and the next fishing school is on Monday the 8th 6pm to 9pm and the day on the water is Saturday 20th 6am to 1pm.
To make a booking call Scott on mobile 0418169439.
Paul Martin from Rock Marine Bait and Tackle (rocksmarine@tsn.cc) reports that the perfect spring weather last week has brought the fisho’s out on the water. Fishing in the river is on the improve with flathead up to 4 kilo being caught. The bigger ones have been off the Breakwall while the panners are in the shallower water towards Stuarts Point, Jerseyville and up to Smithtown.
Blackfish are still on the bite out of the clearer water but not in big numbers. Bream have been consistently good on a run out tide in the coloured water. Jew fish are about in fair numbers working well on plastics. If you like a feed of big dart and nice whiting head down to Gap Beach. While Smoky Beach has been fishing well for Bream and Whiting towards Hat Head. There’s plenty of Salmon all along the beach with the odd Tailor.
Most offshore fisho’s headed south to Fish Rock for good kingfish and some big snapper. Black Rock has had a few Reds as well. Grassy’s wider reefs in the cleaner water have been producing snapper to 4 kilo with some smaller Pearlies. Fisheries have advised the FAD will be back out in its old location at the end off the month in time for the dolphin fish run.
For daily reports and special call Paul on (02) 6566 6726.
Jason and Virginia Isaac from Ned Kelly’s Bait and Tackle jasned@ozemail.com.au reports that in the estuaries, the excellent run of bream continues, with fish to well over a kilo being taken from most locations within the lower reaches. The fish seem to be hanging around in numbers quite late this year, with the good rainfall of late no doubt assisting in this regard. Flathead continue to improve with good numbers of fish beginning to show up from most location. Best reports have come from Limeburners and Blackman’s Point; however Rawdon Island has also been worth a look. Both lures and bait have proven equally successful. On the luderick scene, the break walls are still producing quality fish albeit not in quite the same numbers as in recent weeks. Also in the estuary, some nice whiting are beginning to show up at several locations downstream of the Dennis Bridge. Live worms and yabbies have been accounting for the better fish, although don’t be afraid to use small soldier crabs if you can get them.
On the beaches, put simply the seas and winds have not been kind, with limited access to all but the more protected locations for some time now. Those who have persisted report the salmon are here in numbers, and as is usually the case, will take just about any offering, at any time of day and during any tide phase. Whilst perhaps not the most sought after species for many beach fisho’s, salmon at least provide plenty of entertainment and represent a terrific species to target for either kids or those simply new to beach fishing. All you need are either a couple of metal lures, or alternately pilchards or beach worms, and you are almost guaranteed to encounter a salmon or two if conditions at all reasonable.
Off the rocks, drummer reports continue to be quite good with most anglers continuing to manage a fish or two each outing. Point Plommer and surrounds continue to prove the pick of locations, however Miners locally has given a few solid pigs over the past week. Also off the rocks, the occasional good sized tailor continues to be encountered, with both Point Perpendicular and Diamond Head providing some nice fish. Bream numbers remain above average, with evening sessions producing the better results. The rough seas also saw some of the traditional luderick locations produce some nice bronzies for those willing to float a bit of cabbage in the suds.
On the outside scene, seas remain inconsistent courtesy of the winds as is often the case at this time of year. For those who have ventured out, there are reasonable numbers of snapper closer in off Plommer; however there are plenty of undersize specimens amongst the better fish. Leatherjackets remain quite thick in places, although by and large, the hoards have moved on. Flathead as usual remain an excellent proposition for those keen to chase a feed without venturing too wide
When you are next up in Port Macquarie call into the shop and have a look at their great selection of tackle and bait they have on offer. You could also ask Jason and Virginia for their daily report on what’s happening on the fishing front. Call them on (02) 6583 8318.
Paul Martin from Rock Marine Bait and Tackle (rocksmarine@tsn.cc) reports that the perfect spring weather last week has brought the fisho’s out on the water. Fishing in the river is on the improve with flathead up to 4 kilo being caught. The bigger ones have been off the Breakwall while the panners are in the shallower water towards Stuarts Point, Jerseyville and up to Smithtown.
Blackfish are still on the bite out of the clearer water but not in big numbers. Bream have been consistently good on a run out tide in the coloured water. Jew fish are about in fair numbers working well on plastics. If you like a feed of big dart and nice whiting head down to Gap Beach. While Smoky Beach has been fishing well for Bream and Whiting towards Hat Head. There’s plenty of Salmon all along the beach with the odd Tailor.
Most offshore fisho’s headed south to Fish Rock for good kingfish and some big snapper. Black Rock has had a few Reds as well. Grassy’s wider reefs in the cleaner water have been producing snapper to 4 kilo with some smaller Pearlies. Fisheries have advised the FAD will be back out in its old location at the end off the month in time for the dolphin fish run.
For daily reports and special call Paul on (02) 6566 6726.
Jason and Virginia Isaac from Ned Kelly’s Bait and Tackle jasned@ozemail.com.au reports that in the estuaries, the excellent run of bream continues, with fish to well over a kilo being taken from most locations within the lower reaches. The fish seem to be hanging around in numbers quite late this year, with the good rainfall of late no doubt assisting in this regard. Flathead continue to improve with good numbers of fish beginning to show up from most location. Best reports have come from Limeburners and Blackman’s Point; however Rawdon Island has also been worth a look. Both lures and bait have proven equally successful. On the luderick scene, the break walls are still producing quality fish albeit not in quite the same numbers as in recent weeks. Also in the estuary, some nice whiting are beginning to show up at several locations downstream of the Dennis Bridge. Live worms and yabbies have been accounting for the better fish, although don’t be afraid to use small soldier crabs if you can get them.
On the beaches, put simply the seas and winds have not been kind, with limited access to all but the more protected locations for some time now. Those who have persisted report the salmon are here in numbers, and as is usually the case, will take just about any offering, at any time of day and during any tide phase. Whilst perhaps not the most sought after species for many beach fisho’s, salmon at least provide plenty of entertainment and represent a terrific species to target for either kids or those simply new to beach fishing. All you need are either a couple of metal lures, or alternately pilchards or beach worms, and you are almost guaranteed to encounter a salmon or two if conditions at all reasonable.
Off the rocks, drummer reports continue to be quite good with most anglers continuing to manage a fish or two each outing. Point Plommer and surrounds continue to prove the pick of locations, however Miners locally has given a few solid pigs over the past week. Also off the rocks, the occasional good sized tailor continues to be encountered, with both Point Perpendicular and Diamond Head providing some nice fish. Bream numbers remain above average, with evening sessions producing the better results. The rough seas also saw some of the traditional luderick locations produce some nice bronzies for those willing to float a bit of cabbage in the suds.
On the outside scene, seas remain inconsistent courtesy of the winds as is often the case at this time of year. For those who have ventured out, there are reasonable numbers of snapper closer in off Plommer; however there are plenty of undersize specimens amongst the better fish. Leatherjackets remain quite thick in places, although by and large, the hoards have moved on. Flathead as usual remain an excellent proposition for those keen to chase a feed without venturing too wide
When you are next up in Port Macquarie call into the shop and have a look at their great selection of tackle and bait they have on offer. You could also ask Jason and Virginia for their daily report on what’s happening on the fishing front. Call them on (02) 6583 8318.
Peter Mak is in the running for fishing photo of the month with a photo of a silver trevally and a
leatherjacket his son caught while fishing down at Mallacoota on Father's Day.
They were fishing off the jetty next to the Tourist Information shed for about an hour. Peter caught a silver trevally on a 2 inch Gulp shrimp in New Penny colour while my son Joshuah caught the jacket on a small pinch of prawn on a long shank hook on a paternoster rig (something I learnt from my class) just off the jetty. Peter said the trevally put up a hell of a fight.
They were driving to Lakes Entrance from Eden when we decided to stop over at Mallacoota to have a look and see. The place looked great and we couldn’t resist a fish. They had the trevally and the leatherjacket on the public barbeque for lunch. They liked the place so much they hope to go back in future and do some fishing from a boat.
They were fishing off the jetty next to the Tourist Information shed for about an hour. Peter caught a silver trevally on a 2 inch Gulp shrimp in New Penny colour while my son Joshuah caught the jacket on a small pinch of prawn on a long shank hook on a paternoster rig (something I learnt from my class) just off the jetty. Peter said the trevally put up a hell of a fight.
They were driving to Lakes Entrance from Eden when we decided to stop over at Mallacoota to have a look and see. The place looked great and we couldn’t resist a fish. They had the trevally and the leatherjacket on the public barbeque for lunch. They liked the place so much they hope to go back in future and do some fishing from a boat.
Darren from Bermagui Ocean Hut Fishing Tackle, Dive and Charter Fishing Service
mailto:%20(%20enquiries@bermifishinghut.com.au reports that fishing out from Beares Beach has produced some very good sand flathead for anglers not wishing to venture too far from home. The close in reefs in and around 20 - 30 metres of water are producing some small snapper and good morwong. Out wide of the Six Mile Reef large Tiger Flathead are dominating most catches.
Cold water is still the major factor for those wishing to chase Game Fish. Some anglers have tried berleying for sharks with no success and I doubt we will see any change in the Game fishing until next moon or even later than that.
The going out tides have produced plenty of blackfish for anglers fishing with green or cabbage weed. Best areas are the rock walls adjacent to Bermagui Harbour, the Bridge Pylons and out around the Bridge at Wallaga Lake. There are some dusky flathead moving in the Bermagui River and are being taken on lures in the deeper, wider bays.
Salmon and tailor are still pretty quiet along most of the beaches although there is a few nice Bream starting to hang around in the deeper gutters. Rock Fishing has been difficult due to the sea conditions and cool water; there has been the odd drummer and occasional groper although things are pretty quiet
If you are planing a trip down Darren’s way check out his web site at http://bermifishinghut.com.au/aboutus.htm You could also give Darren and the boys a ring on (02) 6493 4688 to find out what is coming up in the next week.
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