Australian salmon have been schooling in along the coast of Sydney, from Lyon Island and down to Wollongong. They have also been schooling in Pittwater, Sydney Harbour, Botany Bay and Bate Bays and even in parts of the Port Hacking. I have even had a report of a 1.96 kilo one been caught at the Moons in the Georges River.
With the coming of the Australian salmon there has been a number of school of under sized kingfish getting in on the act. Schooling with these kingfish has been tailor to 2 kilos and the odd bonito. If you are having trouble hooking up to these fish I would suggest that you try downsizing your metals and soft plastics. The fish have been feeding on very small baitfish.
If you are going to troll for them I will usually try using a small skirt of about 10 to 12 cm in length at about 5 to 8 knots. Lately I have been using Lucky Crafty 65 mm Sammies on an 8 to 10 kilo leader for the kingfish and downsizing to a 3 to 5 kilo leader for the Australian salmon.
Botany Bay has plenty of silver trevally to a kilo in size. All I do is anchor up, lay out a berley trail and fish as light as possible to the current you have running. I find that anglers who get lazy and don’t keep on changing their sinker weight will miss out on a lot of fish. Last time I was out on the bay I caught trevally right near the top of the tide with only the weight of a peeled prawn and the hook. As the tide increased I continually up sized my sinker weight.
Last Saturday I was on the water with Gawain and Paul and we managed to hook into a few silver trevally to 800 grams. I think that the highlight of the morning was when Gawain spent 23 minutes fighting a 1.2 metre (guessed length) thresher shark that had been hooked in the tail. Gawain did well to play the fish while I chased it with the boat. It took a peeled prawn on a 3 kilo line. Sorry no photos, but it did jump clean of the water’s surface twice.
If you are after a feed of bream and dusky flathead you could try working the edges of the shoreline off Brighton and Dolls Point with soft plastics.
Scotty Lyons from Southern Sydney Fishing tours has been fishing off shore this week which is a little different as for the last few weeks he has been fishing the Bay. Saturday Morning they headed north from the Bay trolling and it was rather productive with Bonito and small Kings loads of fun, The wind was blowing in from the east which make it a little tricky as the swell and wind slap you around a bit, just wide from the rocky ledges trolling the middle lure a small Mcgoo skirt was belted. They boated a number of kingfish with the biggest measuring it at 90cms.
Scott also anchored just off Yellow Rock and found a few Trevally, but it was tough fishing in the sloppy condition so they moved to Wedding Cake Island just off Coggee beach and pick up a few more Trevally before trolling our way back to the bay, three more fish came to the boat on our return trip a Stripe Tuna and two more Kingies what a top day and great fishing.
DVD RELEASE No 1
The Port Hacking “The Jewel of the South” is now available in the following tackle shops;
Ace Fishing Tackle 3 Newbridge Road Milperra
Amazon Outdoor Centre 1273 The Horsley Drive Wetherill Park
Anglers Leisure World 3/2 Garling Road Blacktown 2148
Anglers World 1 Lawndale Avenue North Rocks
Bass Angler Batt Street Penrith
Beverley Hills Bait and Tackle 410 Stoney Creek Road Beverley Hills
Botany Bay Bait and Tackle 1a Jacobson Street Kyeemagh
Brighton Bait and Tackle 285 Bay Street Brighton-lee Sands
Cast Wide Cnr of Wollongong and Forest Road Arncliffe
Campbelltown Fishing Scene 6-12 Dumaresq Street Campbelltown
Chatswood Bait and Tackle 342 Penshurst Street Chatswood 2067
Complete Angler 938 Woodville Road Villawood
Compleat Angler 3rd Floor Dymock’s Building
438 George Street Sydney 2000
Drummoyne Bait and Tackle 104 Lyons Road Drummoyne
Equipped Fishing Bait & Tackle 115 Railway Pde Canley Vale NSW 2166
Fish Outta Water 263 Condamine Street Manly Vale 2093
Freddy’s Fishing World Cnr Griffith and Broadmeadows Roads
Newcastle
Freddy’s Fishing World Erina
Fish and Dive Warehouse 238 Taren Point Road Taren Point
Hunts Marine Princes Hwy Blakehurst
Gabe’s Boating and Fishing centre 1a Somerset Avenue Narellan
Gabe’s Tackle and Bait Shop 4 Princes Highway Sylvania Waters
Kyeemagh Bait and Tackle 164 Bestic Road Kyeemagh
Macs Bait Bar Princes Highway Blakehurst
Mako Tackle and Bait 201 Newbridge Road Moorebank
Matraville Bait and Tackle 548 Bunnerong Road Matraville
One Stop Bait & Tackle Cnr of Waterloo Rd Greenacre
Otto’s Fishy Business 139 Victoria Road Drummoyne 2047
The Big Catch 12 Chapel Road Bankstown
Wattos Shop 1 & 2, Lot 7 Kurrajong Ave
North St Mary’s
Windybanks Bait 523 Pacific Highway Mt Colah
Windsor Bait and Tackle Cnr Baker and Macquarie Streets Windsor
West Engadine Newsagency 121 Anzac Avenue Engadine
We have also put in 30 different fishing locations on easy to read maps to fish from the shore, boat and where to go to get your live bait.
Scott also explains, with the use of a white board the details of the rigs we used throughout the DVD.
We also go through the types of outfits we used and how to set them up.
Now even though this may be a DVD that has been filmed while fishing in the Port Hacking River in Sydney’s south, the types of techniques, bait and lure types, tackle and rigs can be used in the same way anywhere throughout Australia.
While you are at your local tackle shop you should also look out for our first DVD “A Day on the Bay” In this dvd we cover how to target yellowfin bream in fast running shallow and deep water, silver trevally while using small amounts of weight, how to get live squid and yellowtail, target kingfish around structure, cast and troll for tailor, soft plastic fishing for dusky flathead and even a little bit on cooking your latest catch.
There are also maps, techniques and tackle covered in this DVD.
If you find that when you go to your local tackle shop and they are not there yet, get them to give me a ring on 0422 994207. RRP $24.95
DVD RELEASE No 2
It has taken Carl Dubois and Adam Ford about the same time as Scott and I to put together a great DVD on Kayak Fishing in Sydney.
I had the chance last night to have a look at this great dvd and I thing that I found was the amount of information that both Carl and Adam has put into this dvd in terrific. It wouldn’t matter if you had been fishing for a long time or was just starting to get into kayak fishing there would be something that you pick up.
Carl, Adam, Mick and Terry target Australian bass, yellowfin bream, silver trevally, Australian salmon, dusky flathead, kingfish, tailor and mulloway using different techniques and lures.
Everything from soft plastics, surface lures and hard bodies is discussed and backed up with some great footage of fishing from their paddle and pedal powered kayaks.
Carl also takes you through what type of fishing structure they target these fish at and how to set up your sounder on your kayak.
Everything from soft plastics, surface lures and hard bodies is discussed and backed up with some great footage of fishing from their paddle and pedal powered kayaks.
Carl also takes you through what type of fishing structure they target these fish at and how to set up your sounder on your kayak.
Now even though this may be a DVD that has been filmed while fishing in Sydney the types of techniques, lures, tackle and rigs can be used in the same way anywhere throughout Australia while fishing out of a kayak. Maybe you would like to try some of the techniques and lures when you are either fishing off the shore or out of your own boat.
For more information on how to pick up this great DVD you can go to http://www.kayakfishingsydney.com/ or email Carl at cdubois@cdm.com.au
RRP $24.95
FISHING CLASSES FOR 2010.
WINDYBANKS BAIT AND TACKLE
I will be starting up my fishing classes in early February 2010. They will start 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.
WATTO’S TACKLE SHOP
I will be starting up my fishing classes in early February 2010 at Wattos and they are 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 atEmail:
wattosfishing@gmail.comAddress:
shop 1 & 2 LOT 9 KURRAJOMG AVE ST MARYS NORTH
Phone: 0416 203 507
Contact Shaun
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/
LATEST REPORTS FROM AFAR.
Paul Martin from Rock Marine Bait and Tackle (rocksmarine@tsn.cc) reports that they had a much better week all round last week with some stable conditions and more fish action than we have seen for a few weeks. Outside fishermen are finding warm dirty water in close with some nice Snapper and Pearl Perch coming in off Grassy Head. Fishing the waters out a little wider are a lot cleaner but no real reports last week of Fish. There were a few Trag caught further North to Stuarts Point. Rocks in Line fished well for Jewfish and Pearlies. Fish Rock’s Rat Kings are still very active but pulling a legal King out of there has been tough. There were some nice Snapper caught from the Rock last week, with one local using 7 inch plastics with great success.
The river is still dirty but fisho’s are persevering for some good results. There have been one or two big Jews caught along the Break Wall, I have seen the photo but the location remains a secret. Salmon and the odd Tailor have been on the end of the Wall with some fair Bream coming in on the tide change. Jerseyville and further up is chocolate so the fishing has been tough. Through the Cut and towards Stuarts Point Whiting are on the bite as have the Flathead. There were a few Bream and Whiting around Clybucca but it is dirty up there.
Smoky Beach is fishing ok although a strong sweep is there at the moment. I have had reports of a couple of kilo plus Bream out of the surf with lots of small Dart and the odd Whiting. Young Max Downey fished the rocks at North Smoky for a classic 2.9 kilo Tailor and a few Salmon. Main Beach has Whiting around to Trial Bay while Back Beach Whiting and the odd sand Flathead are being caught off the gutter half way along the beach. The Rock Hoppers are getting the odd Tailor and Salmon off the ledges.
Paul Martin
Jason and Virginia Isaac from Ned Kelly’s Bait and Tackle jasned@ozemail.com.au reports that in the estuaries, with the system still quite dirty the focus will be in the lower reaches, most predominately along the break walls. On the mulloway front, a few fish have been taken from the break walls on lures, although results have not been astounding. It would seem we didn’t get quite enough fresh coming down to really fire the jewies up. Bream numbers have picked up a little with the coal wall and Limeburners both producing a few nice fish. On the flattie front, numbers remain excellent despite the dirty water, with areas downstream of the Dennis bridge likely produce the better results over the next week or two. Before the fresh, some excellent whiting were taking yabbies and worms in both Big Bay and the back channel, and this should continue once a degree of clarity returns.
On the crustacean scene, hopefully this fresh will stir the mud crabs into action, with results this year to date only lack lustre at best. A different story however on the prawning front, with Lake Cathie again producing excellent results. As you would expect, the participation rate is sky high with most managing a great feed. Hopefully this action will continue for a few months yet and not die as suddenly as last year.
On the beaches, some reasonable catches of bream have been reported from most locations, with North Beach and the southern and of Lighthouse producing the better results. Whiting numbers are also on the improve with beach worms the only bait to have. A few salmon still are hanging around although generally not in the larger schools experienced over the past couple of months. Tailor however remain quiet and you would not expect this change until at least when the all the dirty water clears up. For mulloway enthusiasts, still a few schoolies around although not in the quantities seen over the winter months.
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