Sydney South

SYDNEY SOUTH Gary Brown

gbrown1@iprimus.com.au

Lately I’ve been getting amongst the luderick while fishing off the rocks using both green weed and cabbage. Hopefully by now the water in the Woronora, Georges and Port Hacking Rivers would have started to clear up and the luderick would have made their way into these rivers.

Places that are worth a shot from the shore include Bare Island, the break wall in Yarra Bay, the entrance to the Cooks River, Captain Cooks and Tom Uglys bridges, the walkway at Lugarno and the ramp at

A nice snapper caught on a trip with All at Sea Fishing Charters. Picnic Point.

In the Port Hacking you could try the Yowie Bay boat ramp, Gymea and Gunnamatta Bay baths, and near Audley Weir.

For those of you with boats you could try along the wall at Trevally Alley, the southern side of the river at Lugano, Soily Point and the rock wall upstream of the Alfords Point bridge. You can also fish on the northeastern side of the baths at Lilly Pilly, Deer Park and the fish trap wall up from the ramp at Swallow Rock drive.

If you prefer to target them off the rocks you could try the northern end of Bondi Beach, the southern side of Tamarama Beach and La Perouse in the north, and the Kurnell Peninsula in the south. Northern Garie is also worth a shot, but you will need to check and see if the road has been opened due to landslides.

Offshore north and south of the heads at Botany Bay in 20-40m of water there have been a number of good snapper caught. Most have been taken while drifting with paternoster rigs or float lining very lightly weighted half/whole pilchards.

To find where the snapper are you will need to find the broken rubble and shale bottom, along with the baitfish. One way of locating this type of area is to use your sounder and drift until you get a bite. Then mark that spot, come back and either drop the anchor or use your electric motor’s anchor mode, e.g. Minn Kota Spot-Lock.

There have been Australian salmon and silver trevally caught up as far as the Moons in the Georges River by anglers fishing with either bait or lures. Some of the trevally have been between 50-60cm. Try drifting along the area at the Moons, near the old ferry ramps and up and downstream of the Como Bridge.

Whiting are still on the chew at Kangaroo Point and in between the bridges.

Sylvania Waters is a good place to try the pontoons and poles for bream, flathead, trevally and the odd whiting on lures. Just remember to keep the noise down and make sure you un-snag your lures and jigheads from anything that you get caught up on.

Woolooware Bay is still producing bream, flathead and the odd mulloway. Try drifting with lures near the old oyster racks and in-between the boat. The boats in Kogarah Bay will also have a few bream, trevally and flathead sitting underneath them.

Scotty Lyons reports that Trevally Alley has been producing the goods, with bream, trevally, salmon, tailor, kingfish and the odd pan-sized snapper being caught. Pillies and prawns have been working for him. You could also try tube worms, live pink nippers and strips of mullet.

The Port Hacking is still very dirty and there are still a few big objects floating around. However, I have still been catching bream,

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Luderick are in good numbers in the Woronora, Georges and Port Hacking rivers.

Kingfish can still be caught, either with live yellowtail or trolling along the wall at Trevally Alley in Botany Bay.

trevally, flathead, whiting, tailor and the odd bonito.

When bait fishing, I will always anchor and at the same time have a small and steady berley trail going. This seems to keep the fish in the area once you have got them to the back of the boat. Smashed-up old pilchards or handfuls of chicken pellets work for me. If I’m getting a lot of small snapper, I will stop berleying for a while and they tend to go away.

The rocks off Windy Point are worth a shot for trevally, bream and drummer while using peeled prawns or cunje. I prefer to fish as light as I can or suspend the bait under a bobby cork.

I have found that a good time to fish for snapper off the rocks is a couple of days after big seas. Once it’s calmed down a bit and it’s safe to go fishing, a very long cast out onto the sandy patches and broken rubble will give you a chance of getting one.

Don’t forget to keep those reports and photos coming into gbrown1@ iprimus.com.au.