Julie/Graeme, Anglers Warehouse Tweed Heads (07) 5536 3822
anglerswarehouse@shopsafe.com.au
Wayne, Kingscliff Bait and Tackle
Matthew/Charlie, Deep Sea Fishing Charters

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Tallow Beach for big salmon, tailor and dart. Headlands have GTs, tailor and the odd kingfish mixed with them. Wategos and Little Wategos for bream, tailor and some nice flathead. Tailor, bream, flathead and dart from Clarks Beach to Belongil. No offshore report.

Craig Wraight
BP Discount Fishing Tackle, Brunswick Heads
ausie_28_red@yahoo.com.au
Phone (02) 66851268

David Keevers, Coastal Fishing Tackle 02 66 857 133

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Mandy at Dave’s Bait Shop says there are some nice jew in the river, mainly from the walls, and also at Flat Rock. Flathead going OK up to Wardell and beyond. The odd bream still around. Offshore for some nice snapper, jew and pearl perch. Blackfish at Prospect bridge.
At Evans Head there are a few tailor and bream up Airforce Beach with the best water on the evening high tide, when you could also pick up a travelling salmon. Maybe a show for some evening jew from Airforce to Broadwater. Swell appears to be making. Not much action around the headlands on Thursday apart from a few very small tailor and not much bait working. River is very clear with a few bream and flathead around the bridge; again, not much bait. Offshore has been pretty slow on the days when the wind has eased up, with small trag and smaller silver trevally the mainstays along with a few squire and the very occasional better snapper. Dreaded leatherjackets out wider but there are also some good reds.

Dave’s Bait Shop 02 6686 2481
&
Tony Zann

t.zann@fishingmonthly.com.au

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Flathead in the Maclean Broadwater are going quite well on plastics. A few blackfish around Collis’s Wall, where I got 15 on Wednesday. Jewfish on the breakwall with a couple caught every night, or every other night. Not much from offshore.

Glen Porter, 6646 2017
The Bait Place 6646 2017
ports@reeltime.com.au

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Peter Byron reports the beaches are pretty quiet apart from tailor and salmon. Some good blackfish in most of the estuaries and a few bream in the lower systems, especially around the racks and rock walls. Offshore, there’s the odd snapper and mixed reefies along with hordes of voracious leatherjackets.

Peter Russell, Fish Tackle Australia 6652 4611
motackle@midcoast.com.au

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Mark and Denise Bird and Paul and Michelle Martin
Rocks Marine Bait and Tackle 6566 6726
rocksmarine@dodo.com.au

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At long last some reasonable rain, a decent blow and bream, blackfish and drummer have all improved.
On the beaches, things are certainly looking up, with spits and holes re-forming following the big seas a couple of weeks ago. Encouraging reports of bream from Lighthouse and Rainbow beaches, along with whiting, the odd tailor, and probably school jew over the full moon. Plenty of salmon on all beaches.
In the estuaries, blackfish have at long last made a solid appearance, with the south and north walls providing plenty of action and a few reasonable hauls upstream. Flathead have slowed a little but still the odd good. Bream have improved but are still patchy.
Drummer finally appearing at , Blueface, Miners, Lighthouse and Plommer and surrounds. Look for the more washed out ledges and you should get action. Lighthouse has a few small tailor with bream after dark.
Offshore, when conditions allow, bottom-bashers are still scoring small to medium snapper, pearlies and other reef species but leatherjackets are in plague proportions in places. Dominic Vidot bagged four nice drummer close in off Lake Cathie early in the week on squid.

Jason and Virginia Isaac, Ned Kelly’s Bait and Tackle 6583 8318
cjisaac@ozemail.com.au

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Lloyd Campbell, Great Lakes Tackle 02 6554 9541

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Estuary: Luderick at Tomaree Tubes, Shoal Bay and Little Beach jetties, both walls, Windy Woppa. Bream on Co-op Wall, Corrie Island short cut, Duck Hole wrecks, Cromarty Bay racks. A few tailor late arvos around Middle Island, Soldiers Point.
Beaches: Salmon and more salmon on Stockton. Also good tailor in the arvos at Stockton with occasional bream. A few good whiting still around. The odd jew off Samurai. Stacks of tailor on Box Beach.
Rocks: Pigs on the chew at Rocky, Pigpen at Boat Harbour, Cemetery. Luderick schooling around Boulder and Rocky. Bream in the washes around Fingal and a few good squire off Fishermans Bay.
Offshore: Good run of snapper in the shallows around Edith Breaker, Sisters and North Island. Tailor around the islands out the front, a few school jew on The Vs, The Tank.

Graham Duffy, Salamander Bait and Tackle 02 4982 0711

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Jordan Armstrong,
Tackle Power Fishing Stores,
Jordan@tacklepower.com.au

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Peter Sanderson, Fisherman's Warehouse (02) 4945 8922
enquiries@fishermanswarehouse.com.au

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Gary Oxley Coastline Bait & Tackle, East Gosford ph/fax 4325 4255
kathgaz@bigpond.com
http://www.coastlinefishing.easysites.ws

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Mick from Allie Hunter Charters hooked yellowfin to 25kg while cubing and landed a 120kg mako and dropped another of similar size. Mick is in the midst of a very consistent season and could provide the fish of a lifetime. This tuna season, reports have been threefold what last season laid on.
Sydney Harbour dished me out a couple of squid one evening but I couldn’t convert them into fish during the ensuing beach. The Harbour is host to schooling salmon and tailor which are still quite boat-shy. These fish can still be trolled or spun up and are great fun on light tackle, as Des from Hookem & Cookem showed the boys during the week.
Pete Le Blang says Pittwater fishing is not too bad with plenty of blackfish near the marinas and the local rat kingfish population also appearing. Your best chance is a peeled prawn unweighted – good luck.

Darren Thomas
Fish Outta Water 9949 9488
fishon@uunet.com.au

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I ventured out to Sydney Heads last Sunday with Steve Edmonds from Shakespeare to put a couple of new rods (Pflueger Trion 2.1m soft plastic) through their paces. Even though there weren’t as many schools of salmon about as there were a couple of days previous, we both managed fish to around 2.5kg on 3kg line and some silver trevally. When we arrived back at the ramp I spoke to three anglers who had fished Sow and Pigs for 27 silver trevally and a rather large cowanyoung. There have also been a number of leatherjackets caught in North Harbour, the small cove at Manly, Watsons and Rose bay wharfs and the western side of Clarke Island.
Further upstream Goat Island is worth a try for bream. Even though there may not be a lot of them around, the size does make up for the lack of numbers. Bream are also worth a try in the back areas of the Iron Cove River.
Scott Lyons fished the oil wharf, Watts Reef and the eastern side of the breakwall at Port Botany for trevally, bream and leatherjackets. He also trolled the wall in Yarra Bay for tailor.
Botany Bay has started to improve over the last week. Flathead are being caught on the drift out in front of Dolls Pont. The run-up tide seems to be producing the better fish. The end of the third runway is worth a try for silver trevally and bream on the run-up tide. Make sure that you have a constant berley trail going.
The luderick are on the chew in the Georges and Woronora rivers. If you don’t know where to fish, it would be a good idea while you are out on the water to take note where the regular guys are fishing and put those places into the memory bank. Places worth a try are the old bridge in the Woronora River, Soil Point, Cattle Duffers, the wall at Chipping Norton and just east of the Alfords Point bridge.
Squid are just about everywhere in Port Hacking. Work a few different colours of jigs and try and try two at the same time. There are also plenty of leatherjackets in Port Hacking so tie up a paternoster rig, get some peeled prawns and get yourself a few.
Fishing classes
Classes on how, where and when to fish the waterways of Sydney from the shore begin on August 5. Cost is $80. Email me at gbrown1@iprimus.com.au or phone 0422 994 207 or next time you are passing the shop come in and book.

Mako Tackle
Gary Brown / Greg Mercedes 9600 6999

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Lake: Whiting near the bowling club park on squirtworms and bloodworms. Plenty of blackfish in the channel between the islands on weed and squirtworms. The odd leatherjacket near the kiosk on prawn pieces. Mullet in Macquarie Rivulet on bread and bread flies. Mullet Creek has nice bream but the clear water is a problem.
Rocks: Mainly salmon and tailor with most headlands working, best are probably Honeycomb at Port Kembla, Cowries at Shellharbour. Metal lures around 40-50g working best. Barrack Point and Beakie Bay for blackfish on cabbage. Some snapper around Kiama on slab baits.
Offshore: Plenty of squire on the South East Grounds, Church Grounds at Shellharbour and Bandit Reef off Bellambi. Some nice mowies on Wollongong Reef. Salmon and tailor behind the breakers. Water is around 14°.

Garth, Deans Bait and Tackle, Windang 4295 1615

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The Soldiers Club comp guys caught good drummer up at Durras last weekend. Plenty of salmon on the beaches with the odd decent tailor. Blackfish off the rock wall near Harbour Marine.

Rodney Stockman,
Harry’s Bait and Tackle
ph 02 4472 4393, fax 02 4472 3405

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Not much happening. Island is dead, beaches probably the best bet for salmon and tailor. Everything else, to be honest, is shut down. Water 11° in the estuary. But it’s 18° at the island so there’s hope in the way.

Darryl, The Ocean Hut 4476 2278

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Darren Redman and Mark Rose,
Bermagui Ocean Hut and Charter Booking Service, 6493 4688

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