FISHING CLASSES FOR 2009.WATTO’S TACKLE SHOP
The next Fishing class will start on Wednesday the 22nd of July and will run on 3 conconsective Wednesday nights. The class will start at 7.00pm and finish at 10.00pm.
For further information you will need to ring or pay them a visit at the shop.
The cost will be $80.00 per person.
For further information and to book in and pay you can contact Sean at
Email: wattosfishing@gmail.com
Address: shop 1 & 2 LOT 9 KURRAJOMG AVE ST MARYS NORTH
Phone: 0416 203 507
Contact Shaun
And while you are at it you could go to their web site and see what special they have on at the moment http://www.wattosfishing.com.au/
WINDYBANKS BAIT AND TACKLE
The next Fishing class will start on Thursday the 23rd of July 2009. It starts at 6.30pm and will run for 3 consecutive Thursday nights. The cost of $95.00 includes a fish barbeque and the class. To book in and pay you will need to either ring the shop or pay them a visit.
Windybanks Bait and Tackle
523 Pacific Hwy Mt Colah NSW 2079
Ph (02) 9477 1501
Contact Annette and John.
Phone: 0416 203 507
Contact Shaun
And while you are at it you could go to their web site and see what special they have on at the moment http://www.wattosfishing.com.au/
WINDYBANKS BAIT AND TACKLE
The next Fishing class will start on Thursday the 23rd of July 2009. It starts at 6.30pm and will run for 3 consecutive Thursday nights. The cost of $95.00 includes a fish barbeque and the class. To book in and pay you will need to either ring the shop or pay them a visit.
Windybanks Bait and Tackle
523 Pacific Hwy Mt Colah NSW 2079
Ph (02) 9477 1501
Contact Annette and John.
I was out on the Port Hacking last Saturday yellowfin bream with soft plastics. I managed to get 5 bream and 1 silver trevally. There were not a lot of other anglers out on the water, but the couple we did come across had really great bags of luderick. Some were around the 800 gram mark. There are also plenty of leatherjackets in the Port Hacking, but the squid have gone a little bit quite. The channels are holding plenty of silver trevally. Osborne Shoals and the Merries Reef have also being producing silver trevally as well.
Sydney Harbour has been producing a few very good catches of yellowfin bream and silver trevally over the past week and will continue to do so over the next week or so. Try fishing the Sow and Pigs on the run-out tide, Bradley’s Head and the yellow marker on the north side of the entrance to Sydney Harbour on the run-in tide. Peeled prawns, pillies that have been cut in half and pink nippers. You could also try using small strips of skinned yellowtail and fresh squid.
The baths at Balmoral are worth a shot for the odd John Dory and squid that has been hanging about.
The baths at Balmoral are worth a shot for the odd John Dory and squid that has been hanging about.
If you are in a boat you should try drifting between the moored boats at Balmoral and in Watson Bay. Middle Head is producing luderick off the shore and tailor and John Dory in the deeper water. There is also plenty of yellowtail to be berleyed up over there as well. The rocks off Coogee, Bondi, Little Beach and the Kurnell Peninsular are all worth a shot for drummer, luderick, bream and silver trevally on the rising tide. Remember to fish as light as possible.
John Freeman of Bondi fished the boat ramp at Boat Harbour at Gerringong for 7 drummer, 1 luderick and 6 bream. All were caught on peeled prawns. Josh Batts fished the back of the bay at Little Bay near Maroubra for 5 bream on chicken and mullet gut.
Other places that you could try for bream, dusky flathead and luderick off the shore during bad weather like we have just had are the inside section of the Point at Kurnell, the section that is adjacent to Silver Beach, Hungry Point in the Port Hacking, Lady Jane Beach in Sydney Harbour and Little Manly Cove. All of these places seem to produce fish during and after a southerly blow.
Botany Bay and the Port Hacking are very dirty at the moment and will be for the next few days. For the best results you will need to coincide you’re fishing time to near the top of the tide. This will tend to give you cleaner water. I would suggest that you try using baits like stripped tuna, slimy mackerel, mullet, chicken and mullet gut and chicken done in parmesan cheese. The Georges River should fire over the next week or so for yellowfin bream and dusky flathead and the odd mulloway or two. Try fishing the deeper parts of the river towards the bottom of the tide and the shallow section when the tide is nearing its peak.
John Freeman of Bondi fished the boat ramp at Boat Harbour at Gerringong for 7 drummer, 1 luderick and 6 bream. All were caught on peeled prawns. Josh Batts fished the back of the bay at Little Bay near Maroubra for 5 bream on chicken and mullet gut.
Other places that you could try for bream, dusky flathead and luderick off the shore during bad weather like we have just had are the inside section of the Point at Kurnell, the section that is adjacent to Silver Beach, Hungry Point in the Port Hacking, Lady Jane Beach in Sydney Harbour and Little Manly Cove. All of these places seem to produce fish during and after a southerly blow.
Botany Bay and the Port Hacking are very dirty at the moment and will be for the next few days. For the best results you will need to coincide you’re fishing time to near the top of the tide. This will tend to give you cleaner water. I would suggest that you try using baits like stripped tuna, slimy mackerel, mullet, chicken and mullet gut and chicken done in parmesan cheese. The Georges River should fire over the next week or so for yellowfin bream and dusky flathead and the odd mulloway or two. Try fishing the deeper parts of the river towards the bottom of the tide and the shallow section when the tide is nearing its peak.
A few weekends ago I fished the area of Bawley Point with a number of the members of the Windybanks Fishing Club in their rock and beach competition. The weather and the water condition were very kind to us over the whole of the weekend. Friday afternoon had us finishing at a seculded spot in the national park for luderick. Owen caught 9, Alan caught 7, I caught 3 and so did Aaron. We were using small bobby corks and cabbage for bait.Saturday morning saw the three of us on the rocks just north of Racecourse Beach fishing a couple of deep gutters. I managed 3 drummer to 950 grams kilos clean, 5 yellowfin bream to 580 grams and a couple of silver trevally. Alan and Aaron managed to get a number of drummer, leatherjackets, silver trevally and luderick. Even though we were fishing with 000 ball sinkers right down onto the bait and 1/0 Mustad Bait keeper hook, we managed to still get snagged a lot.
Last year at the same place we managed to get 7 drummer to 1.050 kilos clean, 3 bream to 600 grams and 3 silver trevally to 400 grams. Not bad for a couple of hours fishing. We were using squid and peeled prawns from the tackle shop at Windybanks.
The rest of the members fished the beach in the front of Racecourse beach for silver trevally, bream, Australian salmon, tailor, sand flathead wirrah’s and plenty of sharks. All in all it was a great week end. If you would like to go down there and try it out for yourself we stayed at the Racecourse Beach Tourist Park at Bawley Point. Their contact number is (02) 4457 1078 and their web site is http://www.racecoursebeach.com.au/ all of us stayed in the beach side cabins and the view and accommodation of where we fished over the weekend was great.
I ventured out on the Parramatta River early in the week and managed to get a few dusky flathead to 51cm, bream to 27cm and 1 whiting to 29cm. Places that I fished were Five Dock Bay, Hen and Chicken Bay and just down stream of the Gladesville bridge.
Carl fished out of his kayak for 6 yellowfin bream. They ranged from 25 to 35cm, 1 luderick to 36cm and 1 sand whiting to 29cm. All were caught on Berkley Sand Worms and he was fishing over the sand flats near the Como Bridge in the Georges River. Johnny (jewfish) and his mates fished in the southern region of the Royal National Park and caught drummer, leatherjackets, Australian salmon to 74cm, long tom, flounder and a few sand flathead. They were caught on peeled prawns, pilchards, squid and they used plenty of berley.
If you are after a feed of Silver trevally you could try the Sow and Pigs, Bradley’s Head, the Wedding Cake and the island at the entrance to Rose Bay in Sydney Harbour. You could also drop a line at the drums and the oil wharf in Botany Bay and further south in the Port Hacking you could try the drop off at Lilly Pilly and at Deer Park. All of the above places will also produce legal snapper and yellowfin bream.
The Lake at Illawarra has busted out to sea and you could try the breakwall for bream, tailor, Australian salmon, silver trevally and the odd mulloway and shark. Whole pilchards and garfish are the go. You could also try using blood, tube and beach worms.
Paul Martin from Rock Marine Bait and Tackle (rocksmarine@tsn.cc) reports that
Dare he say they have a break in the weather, a reasonable long weekend that produced some quality fish and fair sea conditions. Even though the water colour is like mushroom soup in close and pea soup out wide there are fish in it. Snapper and Pearlies are about off Grassy, Scotts and further up in about 30 meters, there not bagging out but getting a feed. Local Bruce Rowsell fished out wide for some good Bar Cod through the week. Get your wire out and stock up with sinkers the Leather Jackets are here and between 30 and 60 meters its plague proportions. Fish Rock has an inconsistent current but when there is movement the Kings are on the bite. Live bait has been hard to get after the big seas but there are a few Mac Tuna about for fresh bait.
One positive out of last week has been the Bream are in good numbers and 1 kilo fish are common along the Break Wall. The Cut through is producing good Bream as is the Oyster Racks at Clybucca while the cleaning table at the boat ramp has been a hot spot. The Jew fisherman have had a field day off the Wall with a couple coming in around 25 kilo and plenty of schoolies to give you a thrill. Blackfish are still a no show along the wall at this stage out of the dirty water. There have been a few off the causeway, and Hat Head has a few in their creek. Flathead are in fair numbers in the Back Creek on the rising tide. White Bait has been the most consistent productive bait.
Smoky Beach has been fishing well for Bream with again some around the kilo mark. There are plenty of Dart about with a few Whiting still on the bite. Gap Beach has Bream and Whiting taking live worms. Rock Hoppers are cleaning up on the Bream and Trevally with Drummer in good numbers from ledges from the Gaol to Lighthouse.
On special this week: Original CROCS all stocks of the “Beach Models” at 30% off down to $34.95 while stocks last.
Paul Martin
rocksmarine@tsn.cc
Jason and Virginia Isaac from Ned Kelly’s Bait and Tackle jasned@ozemail.com.au Off the beaches at present, things are beginning to look up although there is still substantial erosion evident on most stretches of sand, particularly the more exposed beaches. Needless to say, extreme care should be taken if you intend driving the beaches as there is little no sand left in many places towards the top of the tide. Those who have wetting a line have been enjoying some vastly improved bream action, most notably from the top half of Lighthouse. Mixed in with the bream is the odd whiting, along with a continual stream of juvenile mulloway. For those seeking a larger model mulloway, the tides and moon this weekend are excellent. On the tailor front, the dirty water locally has seen only the odd fish here or there, although south of Laurieton is faring much better, with some top greenbacks on offer, such as the 4.5 kilo model Mark O’Neill extracted from Dunbogan beach last weekend, just pipping his nephew for current leader for tailor of the year. Interestingly, both fish and few other solid greenbacks have fallen to bonito strips rather than the conventional pillies or garfish.
Of the rocks, there has been some excellent fishing on offer however the water clarity is having a significant bearing on which species is on offer from any particular headland. To the north of Port, bream have been excellent with good numbers of well condition fish on offer. Around town, bream have been solid as too have blackfish, whilst the odd pig is beginning to show up. South of Port, tailor are significantly better, as are drummer numbers. Once the clarity improves locally and to the north, these two species should fire right up, particularly if the water cools a tad more.
In the estuaries, the water is slowly beginning to clear and should improve further with the larger tides around the moon, assuming of course we don’t get any more significant rainfall. Best results at present have been on bream, with the break walls and Limeburners beginning to give up some nice fish. The upcoming full moon may see this slow a little, but the following dark could arguably see the best action of the year. By all reports blackfish numbers are well up, but the lack of clarity has seen the action quite sporadic. This is bound to change when the water begins to clear. For flattie chasers, there are still plenty of active fish to be had, with the coal wall, Limeburners and around the Dennis bridge all producing fish. Those targeting the Dennis Bridge area and deeper areas with lures are still encountering plenty of juvenile mulloway, together with the odd better fish.
Offshore anglers will be keen to see the forecast finally predicts a few consecutive days of calm seas. Hopefully they will last the long weekend at least. Those who have been out report the current has been on and off, with nil one day and over 3 knots the next. Best reports have been from the closer reefs, with solid numbers of snapper on offer, together with a few pearlies and other mixed reef species. Those keen of chasing reds on plastics will no doubt relish the calmer seas and improving clarity on the closer reefs.
rocksmarine@tsn.cc
Jason and Virginia Isaac from Ned Kelly’s Bait and Tackle jasned@ozemail.com.au Off the beaches at present, things are beginning to look up although there is still substantial erosion evident on most stretches of sand, particularly the more exposed beaches. Needless to say, extreme care should be taken if you intend driving the beaches as there is little no sand left in many places towards the top of the tide. Those who have wetting a line have been enjoying some vastly improved bream action, most notably from the top half of Lighthouse. Mixed in with the bream is the odd whiting, along with a continual stream of juvenile mulloway. For those seeking a larger model mulloway, the tides and moon this weekend are excellent. On the tailor front, the dirty water locally has seen only the odd fish here or there, although south of Laurieton is faring much better, with some top greenbacks on offer, such as the 4.5 kilo model Mark O’Neill extracted from Dunbogan beach last weekend, just pipping his nephew for current leader for tailor of the year. Interestingly, both fish and few other solid greenbacks have fallen to bonito strips rather than the conventional pillies or garfish.
Of the rocks, there has been some excellent fishing on offer however the water clarity is having a significant bearing on which species is on offer from any particular headland. To the north of Port, bream have been excellent with good numbers of well condition fish on offer. Around town, bream have been solid as too have blackfish, whilst the odd pig is beginning to show up. South of Port, tailor are significantly better, as are drummer numbers. Once the clarity improves locally and to the north, these two species should fire right up, particularly if the water cools a tad more.
In the estuaries, the water is slowly beginning to clear and should improve further with the larger tides around the moon, assuming of course we don’t get any more significant rainfall. Best results at present have been on bream, with the break walls and Limeburners beginning to give up some nice fish. The upcoming full moon may see this slow a little, but the following dark could arguably see the best action of the year. By all reports blackfish numbers are well up, but the lack of clarity has seen the action quite sporadic. This is bound to change when the water begins to clear. For flattie chasers, there are still plenty of active fish to be had, with the coal wall, Limeburners and around the Dennis bridge all producing fish. Those targeting the Dennis Bridge area and deeper areas with lures are still encountering plenty of juvenile mulloway, together with the odd better fish.
Offshore anglers will be keen to see the forecast finally predicts a few consecutive days of calm seas. Hopefully they will last the long weekend at least. Those who have been out report the current has been on and off, with nil one day and over 3 knots the next. Best reports have been from the closer reefs, with solid numbers of snapper on offer, together with a few pearlies and other mixed reef species. Those keen of chasing reds on plastics will no doubt relish the calmer seas and improving clarity on the closer reefs.
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