Action still hot in cooler water

SYDNEY SOUTH Gary Brown

gbrown1@iprimus.com.au

By now the weather will have started to cool down a bit and so will have the water temperature. Even though this is happening it shouldn’t stop you from getting out there.

Whether it be fishing from the shore in the estuary or out of a boat or casting a few lures and baits off the beach and rocks you should be spending a bit of time fishing, as the month of March in the southern Sydney area will be still going off.

As I put this article together the marlin season has been going off and everyone that I have spoken to has been getting a marlin or two. Hopefully they will be still about during March for those who can get out there.

Marlin fishing is something that I have never done before and would like to do at least once in my lifetime. I feel that I have learnt so much while working at the BCF shop at Taren Point through our customers that have been clearing the store out of marlin gear.

The rocks from Kurnell and down to the southern end of the Royal National Park are worth a shot for snapper, bream, trevally, salmon, bonito, tailor, luderick and drummer.

Places that would be worth a try would be the point at the end of Jibbon Beach, Marley, and Kurnell. Even though you can’t gain

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You could always park in the carpark at the top of Burning Palms and then take the walk down. But be warn its not an easy walk down and back - especially after you have had a couple of days rain.

The beaches in Bate Bay have been producing bream, flathead, dart and whiting. By far the best bait has been beach worms. You can get a few right where you fish or you could give a couple of local bait shop a call to see if they have some in.

Tailor, salmon and mulloway are worth a shot either early in the morning or late afternoon. Whole pilchards or strips of mullet and squid are the go. If you don’t like getting your hands dirty with bait you could cast out a metal slice or work those soft plastics through the gutters.

Botany Bay has been a bit of a hit and miss affair over the past few weeks on the bream, whiting, flathead and trevally. If you can’t locate where the main concentrations are you could try drifting until you get a bite, then mark it on your sounder. Once you have landed the fish then come back to where you got the bite, anchor up, start berleying and cast out those lines. The fish should then start to work their way up the berley trail to your baits.

Further up in the Georges River around the Lugarno to Picnic Point area there have been bream, whiting, flathead, mullet and garfish caught. Best baits have been live nippers and half pilchards. Try working the same area with soft plastics and soft vibes.

There are plenty of landbased spots that you can try fishing from. Get onto Goggle Maps, find out how to get there and then have a fish. If you have no luck then find another spot until you find one that works for you.

At times the Port Hacking River can be fairly tough to fish and at other times it doesn’t matter how and what you use you always get something. What I tend to do is when I am bait fishing I will always fish while at anchor and I always berley. The main thing that you have to remember is to use live or freshly caught bait and either use a running sinker down onto the bait or a running sinker down onto a swivel and have a leader of at least 90cm long.

The only times that I drift is when I am chasing squid or using lures.

Starting from this month I am going to share with you some facts that will hopefully help you to get amongst a few more fish. It maybe something a simple as a suggested hook to use, how to put a bait on, what type of technique I use or what rig that I use.

What it won’t be is about what spot to go, as much of that has already been covered in the monthly report.

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When targeting either yellowtail kingfish with plastics, poppers or minnows around moored boats the ideal situation is not to have too much wind. This will give you plenty of time to put out a few casts at each of the boats as you drift past them.

Not only do the boats themselves attract the fish, so do the mooring ropes and chains. It is the growth that forms on the ropes and chains that in-turn will attract the baitfish, which in turn attracts the larger predators.

You can also anchor up near a group of moored boats and lay out a berley trail, while at the same time feed out lightly weighted baits to the underside of the boats and their moorings.

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

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