These little tasty fish school around structure in good numbers can be found in Port Hacking and Botany Bay. You need to fish just off the bottom using a dropper or paternoster rig and a No 10 hook. The sinker is normally just enough to hold bottom, depending on the amount of tidal flow. I normally use a No 5 ball and nippers or peeled prawn.
In Port Hacking, I find very consistent results on jackets in South West Arm, just fish one of the many rocky drop-offs. Most of the marker poles in Botany Bay will hold leatherjackets and the Container Wall is worth a try.
Just fish where the rocks meet the sand. At times the jackets feed under the trevally schools away from the rocky edges so try a bottom rig under the feeding trevally and you might score a bonus. Most fish will be lost at the boat, so make sure you use a landing net and place the fish in a salt water ice slurry to preserve their eating qualities. Last month produced excellent catches of bream from Watts Reef with specimens to 1. Because it is shallow, fishers ignore it and in doing so they are missing out on a bundle of good fish.
The secret of Watts Reef is to fish it at night — in the daytime you will only get rubbish but at night big bluenose bream are on the prawn and best results are on pink nippers. To find the spot, line up the blinking red bell buoy with the remains of the old pump house on the oil wharf then come out from the large pine tree on the Kurnell Reserve.
These days, the spot is not as good as it was, but will improve steadily till the beginning of June. Another possie, which has been fishing well, has been the small groin along the swimming pool on Silver Beach at Kurnell.
It is a good general spot and on bright moonlight nights and this wall produces top catches of tailor, flathead, flounder, whiting and bream. This wall is made up of broken rock so watch your step. Make sure you take a landing net with you if fishing this spot. The late mail is also for the Cooks River Breakwall. The end of the southern wall has been fishing particularly well for school mulloway, bream, trevally and tailor.
I like night fishing or at first light hours and the run-out tide will carry your bait out. Fishos who give it a miss and try the bigger Georges River are missing out on bream, blackfish, whiting and flathead catches. And in the upper reaches you can catch estuary perch. When a fresh is on, a lot of perch are washed downstream are often picked up by bream fishers.
The Wannie is for small boats only and the entrance to the system has been dredged to deepen the channel. By wildfish , July 14, in Fishing Chat. If you locate the retaining wall at Port Botany on the northern side of the bay. Trevally Alley starts from the end of the retaining wall at Molineaux Point and runs north for about 40 metres. That day we fished along side wach other luke at the oilwharf wasn't a bad little spot just a shame the trevs didnt have much of a size to them.
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