Going fishing off sydney

 

 

Fishing off Sydney on Sunday

 

Had a great day fishing off sydney on Sunday took the little boat out and had a mate join me who is an accountant from sydney.

 

 

We used the downrigger and ran a lure at 10 metres.

 

 

The results were instant and we caught a heap of undersized kingfish, which we returned to the ocean .  After a while we started to see some bigger fish turn up and were able to get a few keep

a few.

 

After the downrigger I decided to try a micro jig and have included a video of  myself giving this new technique a go. The  japanese have perfected these art with special jigs and rods.

 

The rods are very strong but with very light tips to get the action on the light jigs.

 

As you can see the action needs to be very rapid lifts that give the impression of a wounded or fleeing fish.







 



 

 

 

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Strange things in Sydney Harbour

The other day I was fishing on the west side of the harbour bridge and I saw a most unusual site on the sounder. It's been very unusual and hard to recognise.

It must have been a sunken sailing boat and it was just of the point not far from the bridge.

I guess someone must be missing their boat.

Unfortunately there were no fish around it but that strange object made my fishing a little bit mysterious and unusual.

Written by Andrew Wily

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Fishing in the harbour

On Monday I went out in the harbour to meet a boat Mechanic and I decided that I would have a quick fish before I met up with him at around 7 AM in the morning.

The morning was overcast and the water looked clear as it had not been raining for some days.

As I was meeting the mechanic off Noakes boat slipway I decided to see if any fish were biting.

At first I trolled around to see if any fish were on the sounder and found a patch of fish near a large barge that is moored up near Noakes slipway.

At first I used the downrigger and trolled a plastic lure to see if I could get any bites.

I was reasonably hopeful that I was going to hook up as the plastic lure was taking a number of bites however I did not manage to secure any hook ups.

I then went opposite the large barge and proceeded to drop the lead  gig plastic lure to the bottom and on the third drop I had a significant hook up from what appeared to be quite a substantially strong fish

As I was using a light rod which is one of the new micro jig rods I was able to control the fish within reason although I am sure that if there had been any moorings  or reef in the area I would of lost the fish

Finally after 10 minutes I saw that I had hooked up a kingfish of around 6 pound and this was the reason for the difficult fight. They certainly can pull out these kingfish.

So great morning was had and a much enjoyable fishing trip

Written by Andrew Wily

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