Sydney Harbour
September 27th, 2008
As an introduction to fishing this area, I will begin with just to the West of The Harbour Bridge around the dock area to Darling Harbour.There’s a major shipping line and deep drop off to set a live squid in search of those ever illusive Kingies!Good bream ground with heaps of structure around the pylons.
We trialled a heap of different lures and found the “Luhr Jensen” in white a good lure in the mid/crank bait range.Berleying up is a must.The small “Vibes”from www.kingstonlures.com.au were good and Jackal TN50s which all come under the bibless range.There’s endless opportunities around the Harbour.
Our boat “Chilli”
Coming from the Northern side of Manly, we launched out of Manly,Roseville and Cammeray dropping out under the Spit Bridge and on to North Head via The Quarrantine Station,Old Mans Hat and Northern Marker,sometimes venturing around the corner to Bluefish Pt.There’s numerous spots to fish on the way out including Pickering Pt.,Balmoral Beach (driftin’ for flatties) and Dobroyd Pt. to name a few.
Gettin’ on to live squid or yakkas when on the move,trolling or downrigging top to mid water produces good results.Gar fish stinger rigs skipped back behind the boat wash work as well.
This Aussie Salmon fell for a metal slice ,using a Daiwa Saltist 15to30lb rod and Shimano Navi PG 8000 reel ,loaded with 20lb braid and 80lb leader.
Aussie Salmon
Somewhere in a rod stack you would have to find an Ian Miller T/Curve.Coupled with a TLD.
Above Yamashita and Yosuri squid jigs.When it get’s hard, try trolling these “River 2 Sea” lures!
Tryin’ to track down squid can be tough at times-try www.squidfish.net/ for some good info.
Chasin’ Kingies around the Harbour can be great fun and sometimes frustrating !!!Downrigging live squid or yakkas can be worth the wait.Invariably when you hook up,it’s generally near structures or my worst enemy!Moorings!.Here’s a few pics.of our set up and a nice Sydney King.
Garfish rigs can be skipped or weighted accordingly.
Check out www.blackpete.com.au in your tackle shop the Kings rate them as one of there favourites.
We use an Abu Ambass.7000 BG with a 6ft stoker rod that has a bit of give, allowing the tip to load up on the down rig.20lb braid and 80lb trace.Lever drag!
Seriola Islandi the Latin derrivative , is probably short for “bandits” or “Hoodlums”
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Some more of the gear we are using of late is the Daiwa Saltist 5000 spinning reel and Saltist overhead 30.
Penn Slammer and Penn Spinfisher reels.You can’t beat these tough, no nonsense reels.
The 50lb multi coloured depth braid coupled with varying mono leaders of 40 to 80lb does the job well.
5 Responses to “Sydney Harbour”
1Sonora
October 24th, 2008 @ 11:45 am
This is great info to know.
2Lease Purchase Agreement
July 6th, 2009 @ 10:38 am
:O So mush Info :O
3Shimano Reel Fishing
August 7th, 2009 @ 8:35 am
Hey, I found your website a few hours ago and have read all the info quietly. I decided to should make my firstcomment. Not really sure what to write but here goes. Nice site. Will call back in a bit to see more of what youve got to offer.
4CaL
January 29th, 2010 @ 1:06 am
yeah had a good look at ya heaps shit web site charlie …sick one ……
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5Natacha Glahn
June 24th, 2010 @ 10:54 am
Hi This is a wonderful website and found the post helpful,this will benefit my catch specially where I like to go fishing,striper are the best in this river and they put up a mean fight,I use a different kind of bait then figure out what will work that day.
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