Botany Bay is alive with silver trevally. Phillip Mars and his brother went out last Friday and managed 19 to 1.05 kilos. All were caught on peeled prawns and very little weight. The key to their success was that they were the only ones berleying with bread and pilchards. Botany Bay will fire on the silver trevally front and I can see this pattern continuing for about the next 2 months. Every time I have gone out lately to target silver trevally all I have had to do is anchor up near or at the edge of a drop-off at Towra Point, marker pole or buoy, the drums, Monilex Point, the artificial reef in Yarra Bay and the end of the third runway, start berleying and fish as light as the conditions will allow. Once the trevally have got the scent of the pilchards, bread and pellets they just coming swimming up into my 
berley trail.
berley trail. Best baits have been peeled prawns, pink nippers, blood worms and fillets of skinned yellowtail. To name all the spots that I have fished for trevally this year would take up too much space up, so here is a few of my favourites; The Wedding Cakes, North Head yellow marker, Middle Head, Bradley’s Head and Clarke Island in Sydney Harbour. The Port Hacking has places like Deer Park, Gymea Bay, and the Lilly Pilly drop off and just off sandshoes at south Cronulla.
I caught this tailor while flicking a Lucky Craft Sammy 65 at a school of feeding tailor in the Port Hacking.
Small to medium tailor to 1.35 kilos can be caught at the Hot Water Outlet. The best time has been an hour after the sun has risen. Then the fish will go off the bite as the first rays of sun hit the water near the Hot Water Outlet. I have also found that the tailor will keep on the chew when the day is an overcast one.
Rod from Gabe’s at Gymea reports that there have been a number of mulloway to 46.7 kilos caught under the Captain Cooks Bridge. The best times have been about 3 to 4 hours before the sun sets. Bream are feeding in the shallow areas of Oatley and Oyster Bays on the rising tide.
The beaches off Cronulla and Wanda have been producing whiting during the day and tailor at night. You could also try fishing Garie and Stanwell Park Beaches. That is if you can put up with the chill. The Port Hacking is worth a shot for squid and leatherjackets along the shoreline of Deer Park. Dusky flathead are been caught in Gymea Bay on live poddy mullet and small yellowtail.
Soft plastic shads are the go for flathead that have been holding up off the boat ramp at the end of Swallow Rock Drive. Australian bass and bream have been caught by anglers who have been working the shoreline from the weir at Audley and up the Grays Point. Hard body lures and soft plastics have been doing the job. Sydney and Middle Harbour are still producing a few kingfish, both on lures and live baits. Kevin Potters from Manly fished the drop-off at Sugarloaf Point for 3 kingfish to 68cm, 4 bream to 750 grams and 1 dusky flathead. The kingfish were caught on live yellowtail and the other fish were caught on strips of stripped tuna. Tailor have been caught while fishing off the southern side of the Spit Bridge on the run-up tide using whole pilchards and garfish on ganged hooks. Leatherjackets and squid can be caught in the bay at Little Manly and the western side of the Sow and Pigs is worth a shot on the run-out tide for bream, silver trevally and the odd dusky flathead.
Further up stream in the Lane Cove and iron Cove Rivers the bream and dusky flathead have been feeding at the edges of the mangroves and rocky shoreline when the tide has been high. Try using pink nipper, peeled prawns and pilly tails that have been lightly weighted. The flats of Hen and Chicken and Five Dock Bays are worth a shot at high tide for bream, dusky flathead and whiting. You could also try worth the boat hulls in the same areas.
What’s New
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You can find the latest rods, reels, lines, soft plastics, hard bodied lures, terminal tackle, accessories and clothing they have in Shakespeare, Ugly Stik, Pflueger, Berkley, Gulp, Fireline, Abu Garcia and Nitro.
There are product reviews and a new feature product catalogue for 2010.
You can also view video clips on Pure Fishing TV (PFTV) on how to rig up a whole pilchard onto a set of ganged hooks, strip baits, whole and peeled prawns, squid and worms. There are also plenty of other clips, for example, how to use blades, squid jigging and bream on soft plastics and surface poppers.
David Tosland was using Berkley Big Eye Baldes to target bream and caught this healthly whiting on a Mango Ripple.
The latest articles are Jig Flicking River and Streams for trout with Andrew Mc Govern, Lure Creek Barra by Neil Shultz, Starting out with soft plastics by JB and yours truly has an article on how to go about anchoring your boat up.
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LATEST REPORTS FROM AFAR.
Paul Martin from Rock Marine Bait and Tackle (rocksmarine@tsn.cc) reports that
the warm water and strong currents have been the order of the day and last week was no exception. The FAD is producing Dolphin Fish in around four knots of current with the odd King Fish out of the same area. In closer to Grassy Head Spotted Mackerel are still in good numbers but very finicky Fisho’s are trying to go without the wire causing lots of bust off’s. There were no signs of Spanish last week but one or two Trag were on the bite on the bottom. The DOT has been productive with some nice Pearl Perch, Morwong and the odd Snapper. Heading south Green Island has Bream and Tailor around it while Fish Rock produced Snapper and some good Kings. Black Rock gave up a few Cobia last week. Live Slimies have been near impossible to catch ther
e are some yakkas about which are worth a shot on the Kings. One visitor hooked a striped Marlin around 70 kilo on a Knife Jig out wider in about 4 knots of current.
Tailor and Bonito are on the end of the Break Wall in good numbers with the odd Bream. There have been a few Flathead coming in off the Tavern with some Whiting as well. Jew Fish are about with a 12 kilo and 20 kilo unit caught in the river last week on live bait. School Jew and Whiting are on the bite from Jerseyville to Kinchela taking live worms. Dust of your Black Fish gear they are on their way in the river system, I just hope the netters give them a break this season.
Some nice Tailor are off the rocks out of most locations with Bonito and small Kings down at Hat Head. Smoky and Gap Beach are fishing well for Tailor, Whiting and Bream.
Jason and Virginia Isaac from Ned Kelly’s Bait and Tackle jasned@ozemail.com.au reports that on the beaches, despite the Easter break seeing a bit more wind than we would like, reasonable conditions were to be found if you fished either the protected corners or significant holes. As has been the case of late, tailor dominated catches with most beaches producing well. Lures, pillies and whitebait have been equally successful, with dawn and dusk producing the better catches as normally is the case. A few school mulloway have also been on offer with the beaches around Lake Cathie proving quite consistent. Also off the beaches, bream numbers are on the improve with north beach and Lighthouse giving up a few nice fish to around a kilo. Salmon numbers remain above average, considering this time of year has the warmest water along our coastline which is generally not to the salmons liking.
Off the rocks, long tail tuna have finally shown up in solid numbers with reports of both successful and unsuccessful encounters from most locations between Hat Head and Point Perpendicular, including the north wall at Port. Unfortunately we are also hearing reports of ill tempers and selfishness from a couple of the premier locations within driving distance of Port. Whilst I can understand long tail, or any LBG opportunities for that matter, are only available for short periods of time in comparison to bread and butter species, etiquette and patience are qualities a few of the enthusiasts seem to leave at home. Perhaps they are blackfish anglers in training. Also off the rocks, tailor and bonito remain common, whilst those floating a bit of cabbage report some excellent bronzies and the odd pig are haunting the washes in reasonable numbers. Bream and school mulloway remain viable options for those fishing the darker hours.
In the estuary, a few good bream have begun to show up, particularly for those fishing the lower reaches at dawn or dusk. Limeburners and the coal wall have both produced well. Flathead numbers remain reasonable, as too have blackfish, whilst garfish and mullet schools remain abundant. For those keen on tangling with a decent mulloway, live mullet, break walls and change of tide are the three main phrases you should fish by for the next month or so.
Offshore reports have been limited given poor conditions; however the next few days look particularly attractive, with the warm currents back in close. As such, those keen on chasing Pelagics should relish the opportunities on hand, whilst bottom bouncing should also prove productive as long as the currents does not scream too hard.
FISHING CLASSES FOR 2010.
The latest articles are Jig Flicking River and Streams for trout with Andrew Mc Govern, Lure Creek Barra by Neil Shultz, Starting out with soft plastics by JB and yours truly has an article on how to go about anchoring your boat up.
If you are interested in getting a newsletter to also keep you up to date on what’s happening on www.purefishing.com.au all you need to do is subscribe to their newsletter and they will keep you up to date.
LATEST REPORTS FROM AFAR.
Paul Martin from Rock Marine Bait and Tackle (rocksmarine@tsn.cc) reports that
the warm water and strong currents have been the order of the day and last week was no exception. The FAD is producing Dolphin Fish in around four knots of current with the odd King Fish out of the same area. In closer to Grassy Head Spotted Mackerel are still in good numbers but very finicky Fisho’s are trying to go without the wire causing lots of bust off’s. There were no signs of Spanish last week but one or two Trag were on the bite on the bottom. The DOT has been productive with some nice Pearl Perch, Morwong and the odd Snapper. Heading south Green Island has Bream and Tailor around it while Fish Rock produced Snapper and some good Kings. Black Rock gave up a few Cobia last week. Live Slimies have been near impossible to catch ther
e are some yakkas about which are worth a shot on the Kings. One visitor hooked a striped Marlin around 70 kilo on a Knife Jig out wider in about 4 knots of current.Tailor and Bonito are on the end of the Break Wall in good numbers with the odd Bream. There have been a few Flathead coming in off the Tavern with some Whiting as well. Jew Fish are about with a 12 kilo and 20 kilo unit caught in the river last week on live bait. School Jew and Whiting are on the bite from Jerseyville to Kinchela taking live worms. Dust of your Black Fish gear they are on their way in the river system, I just hope the netters give them a break this season.
Some nice Tailor are off the rocks out of most locations with Bonito and small Kings down at Hat Head. Smoky and Gap Beach are fishing well for Tailor, Whiting and Bream.
Jason and Virginia Isaac from Ned Kelly’s Bait and Tackle jasned@ozemail.com.au reports that on the beaches, despite the Easter break seeing a bit more wind than we would like, reasonable conditions were to be found if you fished either the protected corners or significant holes. As has been the case of late, tailor dominated catches with most beaches producing well. Lures, pillies and whitebait have been equally successful, with dawn and dusk producing the better catches as normally is the case. A few school mulloway have also been on offer with the beaches around Lake Cathie proving quite consistent. Also off the beaches, bream numbers are on the improve with north beach and Lighthouse giving up a few nice fish to around a kilo. Salmon numbers remain above average, considering this time of year has the warmest water along our coastline which is generally not to the salmons liking.
Off the rocks, long tail tuna have finally shown up in solid numbers with reports of both successful and unsuccessful encounters from most locations between Hat Head and Point Perpendicular, including the north wall at Port. Unfortunately we are also hearing reports of ill tempers and selfishness from a couple of the premier locations within driving distance of Port. Whilst I can understand long tail, or any LBG opportunities for that matter, are only available for short periods of time in comparison to bread and butter species, etiquette and patience are qualities a few of the enthusiasts seem to leave at home. Perhaps they are blackfish anglers in training. Also off the rocks, tailor and bonito remain common, whilst those floating a bit of cabbage report some excellent bronzies and the odd pig are haunting the washes in reasonable numbers. Bream and school mulloway remain viable options for those fishing the darker hours.
In the estuary, a few good bream have begun to show up, particularly for those fishing the lower reaches at dawn or dusk. Limeburners and the coal wall have both produced well. Flathead numbers remain reasonable, as too have blackfish, whilst garfish and mullet schools remain abundant. For those keen on tangling with a decent mulloway, live mullet, break walls and change of tide are the three main phrases you should fish by for the next month or so.
Offshore reports have been limited given poor conditions; however the next few days look particularly attractive, with the warm currents back in close. As such, those keen on chasing Pelagics should relish the opportunities on hand, whilst bottom bouncing should also prove productive as long as the currents does not scream too hard.
FISHING CLASSES FOR 2010.
WINDYBANKS BAIT AND TACKLE
My next fishing class will commence on Wednesday the 16th of June 2010. It will start at 6.30pm and will run for 3 consecutive Wednesday 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.
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