Andrew Wily micro jigging off Sydney

Micro jigging off Sydney

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Andrew Wily - Micro Jigging off Sydney

The action  was thick and fast off Sydney last Saturday as the weather was perfect and the water has just started to warm up.

As the water warms up the bait fish start to appear and the kingfish start to feed more aggressively, this is when you can start using micro jigs to catch them.

The best approach is to troll with a feather until you locate a school and then start micro jigging. The fish seem to take the micro jigs near the surface so there is no real reason to go that deep however as the water is not that deep off South Head Sydney I tend to go to the bottom anyway.

The jigs are small and the rods are Japanese and very sensitive. They have very light tips and very strong low halves which give them the strength to catch big fish but with the ability to work a jig.

The action is to move the jig in erratic action on the way up with as much jerk as you can put into the action. This is loved by kingfish who I am sure believe it is an injured baitfish and a meal to be had.

by Andrew Wily (1st December)

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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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Wild boar on rampage on farm just north of Sydney - By Andrew Wily

A farmer just north of Sydney requested the help- of recreational hunter Andrew Wily to solve a major problem with a wild pig that was rampaging across his property causing damage to stock and infrastructure.

On Thursday night this week I was requested by the farmer to attend his property in an attempt to bring to an end the problems being caused by a feral wild boar that had been causing him problems.

After driving to his property from Sydney some three hours north I arrived around 9 o'clock at night with the information to hand the wild boar had been seen previously on a wheat paddock several kilometres from the main homestead.

After loading up the Landcruiser Ute with the necessary equipment which included a powerful spotlight and a rifle with telescopic sights powerful enough to bring to an end this problem animal.

We drove down to the wheat paddock and commenced our investigation of the area with the spotlight to see if we could locate the boar

We soon located a number of smaller pigs which were in the wheat and we shot a few of these pigs to help lower the number of feral pigs on the property that had been causing the farmer problems.

We then drove to a similar paddock and after 15 to 20 minutes of driving around the paddock we located in the distance a large dark shadow which on further investigation turned out to be the boar that we had been searching for.

I quickly lent the rifle on the roof of the Landcruiser Ute and dialled up a high powered magnification on the telescopic sight and through the scope I could see clearly the big boar.

With one quick shot to the head I brought down the boar and we were able to collect him from the middle of the wheat paddock.

After a few photographs the farmerload the boar on the side of the Ute and gutted him for the purposes of later skinning and providing the meat for his farm dogs.

Once we had returned to the farmhouse The farmer and I parted company and he was very appreciative that I had helped to bring to an end the problem with this wild boar.

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