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Berley up a winter feed SYDNEY SOUTH
Gary Brown gbrown1@iprimus.com.au
Even though most of the nights will be freezing and many of the days will be cold, you will still be able to get out and have a fish in July – even if it’s only for a few hours. Luderick, drummer and bream will be schooling up in the estuaries and off the rocks, so it will be time to dust off your outfits and get cracking.
in the Okuma 9’ Competition rod matched with a size 40 Okuma Alaris reel spooled with 4kg Platypus Platinum line. If you were looking to go in Botany Bay you could try Bare Island, Sutherland Point at Kurnell, the Cooks River break wall and any of the groynes from Brighton to Dolls Point and along Silver Beach at Kurnell. The best baits by far would be green weed or cabbage for the drummer and luderick, while prawns, nippers, strips of mullet and tuna would be
you will need to berley to keep the fish active. When fishing off the rocks I prefer to use chopped up cabbage mixed with stale bread and some sand. In the estuary I substitute the cabbage with green weed. There have been a number of reports of a few kingfish at the Fisheries marks in Yarra Bay and at Lilly Pilly in the Port Hacking. The reef off Kurnell and Osbourne Shoals is also holding a few kingfish, along with trevally, pigfish, sweep, tarwhine and mowies.
Sean Golar from BCF with a couple of beauties from Port Hacking. are the best baits by far to get a few whiting, and beach worms also work well. The beaches from Boat
Harbour and around the Cronulla have also been producing some stud whiting during the day and night.
Don’t forget to keep those reports and photos coming in to gbrown1@ iprimus.com.au.
Trevally respond extremely well to a berley trail, as David will attest to while fishing the Lilly Pilly drop-off. Personally, when fishing for drummer, luderick and bream off the rocks I prefer to use my 12ft Bruce Alvey Special rod matched with a 600B Alvey sidecast reel and 5kg Platypus Platinum line. In the estuary while fishing out of my boat I’ll use my Okuma 8’2” Egi rod matched with a size 30 Okuma Alaris reel spooled with 3kg Platypus Platinum line. When fishing from the shore in the estuary I prefer to have a slightly longer rod
a good set of baits to start with for the bream. In the Georges River you could try the Captain Cook and Toms Ugly’s Bridges, Bald Face Point, The Moons, Soily and Picnic Points, The Georges River State Park and Kelso Park. In the Port Hacking you could try Gymea and Gunnamatta Bay Bays, the old Fisheries site, Windy Point, Jibbon and the pontoon beside the ramp in Dolans Bay. No matter where you try
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I have also had a couple of reports come in that the odd mulloway has been caught using fillets of slimy mackerel and yellowtail off Wanda and Stanwell Park beaches during the night. I prefer not to go at night as it’s way too cold for me and I like to see what I am doing. I prefer to chase them at first and last light for a couple of hours. Just recently I ventured out into Woolooware Bay to target a few flathead on a new soft plastic from ZMan, and with a bit of moving around I managed a few fish, with the biggest measuring in at 61cm. Not bad for the middle of winter. The plastics haven’t been released yet so you will have to wait until next month to see the plastics and the flathead. If you are after a few flathead this month, try to get yourself a few small poddy mullet and yellowtail and use them as live baits. You can either drift or anchor up near drop-offs or weed beds for the best results. Try using either a paternoster rig or a large running sinker down onto a swivel and a heavy leader to avoid those rasping teeth they have. The winter whiting have also started to show up in numbers over the flats at Towra and along Dolls Point in Botany Bay, and at Maianbar and Bundeena in the Port Hacking. Tube worms and live pink nippers
David Anderson managed a couple of bream while anchored up at the edge of the main channel near the Ballast Heap in Port Hacking. The best baits were peeled prawns and half pilchards.
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