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| sydney harbour & surrounds with craig mcgill |
Dated: 27 November, 2001
Sydney Harbour
Water temps in the harbour are averaging 19 deg which indicates the change over point from winter to summer fishing. This is very early this year as we usually don't see this happen until mid to late December. As a result we have a good mix of both summer and winter fish in the harbour at the moment. The drawback is that the fishing has been a bit temperamental being hot one day and cold the next.
 | | Nice tailor from Sydney Harbour. |
While quantity of fish is down quality is well up with most of the fish we are catching being better than average size. There's a school of small Yellowtail Kingfish holding up along south head but there's no consistency . You just have to be in the right spot at the right time.
The main harbour, particularly middle harbour has fairly consistent numbers of bigger kings roaming about. The are running in the 4 to 8 kg bracket. Live or very freshly caught squid is a must unless you stumble across the kings working on the surface in which case they will take a well presented slug-go. The pick of the spots are Quarantine bay , the yellow marker off Neilson pk , The Spit , Seaforth bluff and Pickering pt.
 | | A superb yellowfin bream. |
Unfortunately southern squid are being very difficult at the moment but you should be able to get a few if you work hard for them. Try the eastern shoreline between Lady Jane and Bottle and glass.
Tailor are thick along the western shore of the harbour between Georges hd and Tailors bay. Troll diving minnows if you cant see them on top and cast Raiders if you can. Slver Trevally are abundant in north harbour. Best spots are between Fairlight pt and the oceanworld aquarium. Use plenty of burly and either peeled fresh Hawkesbury prawns or fillets of pilchard for bait. Canae Pt is producing some good Blue Morwong on prawns around the turn of the tide. The reef off Tailors bay is producing small numbers of big Yellowfin Bream and big numbers of small Snapper. Once again prawns are the best bait
There's Australian Salmon and Striped Tuna hanging around north head. Sometimes they are around the front and up to one km off shore and other times they come right round to old mans hat and even into north harbour. They are taking small raider lures.
I did a day up on Broken bay this week and that was also crawling with salmon and Striped. There's still the occasional John Dory lurking around the deep still bays in the lower harbour. Best baits are live reef fish.
 | | Mighty yellowtail kingfish love a feed of fresh squid. |
Botany Bay
Southern Sydney Fishing Charters report ( Botany bay and Port Hacking) with Scott Lyons. Botany Bay is fishing a little slowly at the moment, with Dusky Flathead being the only real proposition. Last weekend, we spun up a few flathead around towra on soft plastics again. They fight so much better on lures than on baits, and even a small fish can put up a good fight. We still fish baits for them, and we were all hopeful of a huge flathead when one of the rods doubled over to a solid fish. The angler skillfully worked the fish towards the boat, when it turned out to be a banjo shark ! Oh well, it was fun anyway. We did manage to get one big flathead last weekend, and hopefully the tides will bring in some better quality water from the ocean next weekend.
Scotty's tips for the weekend:
* Flathead - Towra point shallows - runout tide. Soft plastic lures or drifted whitebait
* Tailor - Headlands (shakey) to Kurnell, but very patchy
* Silver Trevally - No trevally to report, but if they show, the bommie is the best place to try
* Yellowfin Bream - STILL no bream. They are out of season generally, but should be around next month.
* Australian Salmon/Stripies/Kingfish - Rapalas trolled around the headlands at about 7 knots.
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Craig McGill Fishnet Pro Angler
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