Fishabout Tours guides have spent many years fishing Sydney’s waterways and have built up an intimate knowledge of species, locations and seasons. The local knowledge of Sydney’s Hot Spots and what species are biting is put to your advantage.

A Great Fishing Platform

The day is spent aboard Fishabout’s new 4.7, 5.5 and 6.1 metre boats and includes:

• All Tackle
• Guidance & tuition
• Large lure selection
• Light refreshments
• All bait

Whether a total novice or an experienced angler, trips are tailored to meet your objective.

Sydney Harbour

Our famous harbour boats some of the world’s best known landmarks and is a delight to view from the water. It also produces top class fishing most months of the year.

Yellowtail Kingfish fight hard and reach a healthy size

Fishing options include:

• Spinning and live baiting for kingfish, salmon,bonito, tailor, etc
• Fine line breaming the sand flats
• Live baiting deepwater for jewfish
• Lure fishing for bream and flathead
• Inshore reef fishing for trevally,
  John Dory, morwong, bream, etc
• Flathead drifts
• Crabbing & squiding

Don’t forget to enquire about our Harbour Restaurant Package:
The day’s fishing is topped off superbly when your fresh catch is cooked and served to you at one of Sydney Harbour’s famous waterside restaurants.

Hawkesbury River

Natural beauty and Aboriginal history are part of the make up of this enormous river system. The Hawkesbury is the country’s premier waterway for large jewfish.

Jewfish the Trophy Species

Other target species are:

• Stud bream
• Whiting
• Flathead
• Tailor
• Blue swimmer crabs

Maximising your comfort is a feature of the boat’s design. This includes being able to cater for the disabled fisherman.

"No one else combines Craig McGill’s knowledge of Sydney’s waterways with such a high level of professionalism in the field of guided fishing – he is in a class of his own"
Steve Starling – Fishing writer & TV presenter

"Craig’s extensive knowledge of Sydney’s waterways and fish make him an outstanding guide"
Gil Schott – Editor and Publisher Saltwater Fishing Australian magazine

"Craig McGill has an uncanny ability of being able to place his boat right where the fish are biting. He makes it look deceptively easy, but his customers are the winners as they come away looking like champion fishos"
James Hill – Trailer Boat Fisherman Editor

Remote Fishing Safaris

Fishabout Tours runs fishing safaris to a number of ‘Top End’ destinations including Cape York, The Gulf and the Northern Territory.

Barramundi at one of our remote tropical locations.

Lure, fly and bait fishing in remote tropical locations for:

• Barramundi
• Mackerel
• Giant cod
• Trevally
• Tuna
• Fingermark

Craig owns and operates Fishabout Tours Guiding service in Sydney, with additional tours arranged to the Top end.

He produced the successful video 'Fishing Sydney Harbour' and has ANSA masters awards for tagging and lure casting

Craig McGill has fished for thirty years, highlighted by a two year non-stop fishing odyssey around Australia.
An experienced fishing photojournalist and guide, Craig has contributed to all the major national fishing magazines, plus a few regionals.
He has appeared on many fishing and lifestyle TV programs and regularly reports on radio, particularly the Hi Tide program on 2KY.

Craig's latest fishing video 'Soft Plastic Lure Fishing'

Craig McGill has spent the last 15 years experimenting with soft plastic lures and according to Freshwater fishing magazine "has caught more fish species on plastics than any other angler in the country". So he is more than qualified to present his latest video offering 'Soft plastic lure fishing'

'Soft Plastic Lure Fishing' explores all aspects of this revolutionary and highly productive 'new' style of fishing. It presents a wide variety of species in both fresh and saltwater all the way from Victoria's famous Bemm River in the far south to the remote Kimberley region of the 'Top End' with plenty of emphasis on 'home ground' 'Metro' fishing in between.

Species targeted include estuary perch, bream, flathead, jewfish, kingfish, a host of tropical species and many more.

It details the often intricate rigs, boat setup, tackle, techniques and accessories that are an intrinsic part of the Soft Plastics fishing 'system' and gives you a fish eye view of the lures in action via an underwater camera.

Local Sydney Guide and ABT Hawkesbury division winner Mick Collins gives us his Pro tips on bream fishing and northern beaches rock and beach legend Big Al Bellissimo shows us how to do plastics off the beach.

In addition to the mountain of information, the production values of this program are broadcast quality.

Whether you are a beginner or a pro, 'Soft plastic Lure Fishing' contains detailed information that is sure to improve your catches.

Available on VHS or DVD at all good tackle shops.

For all VHS or DVD Trade enquiries, Freetime 02 9773 6522.

For information on fishing Sydney Harbour or Fishabout Tours:
Bookings:
Fishabout Tours
180A Warringah Road. Beacon Hill, NSW 2100
Ph/Fax: (02) 9451 5420 Email: craig@fishabout.net.au

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