brettmann86

Good report! They are Maori wrasse as to what I know the southern versions to be, good eating too

One hundred percent agreed! When you fish where everyone else is it she's not mean its the best place to fish! It means your fishing where everyone else is!! Fish the system not the fishing reports!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quit fishing Juno.. It's way over fished and over rated

Hi bill, visit the tackle shop next to the nite owl conveina ce shop, they're locals and really handy with their knowledge, if ur just up fOr some fishing fun off of any of the beaches off the main drag there's plenty of fish to be had

I'm only going off of fish I've kept in saltwater aquariums but that kinda looks like a species of jawfish..

Try the flats on the inland side of barrenjoey head for squid, they can be patchy at times but if you move around you'll find them

Plenty of flathead in the middle grounds, there are some cracking good bream around the bridges on the slack tides and there are plenty of school Jew around I've been finding a small fresh squid single hooked through the hood to be working well, plus there's a few small whaler sharks about too

I'm not a local but I know huntleys wharf has a hole off to the left hand side of it, I don't know if this helps much but it should give you a direction...

I've caught Jews at 126cm which weighed 23kg then my biggest went 132cm and weighed 24 kg so his is well within the rang of a 25kg fish easily everyone has caught fish that are heavier than what they should be at size

Wouldn't need to catch more than that it'd feed 3 families with breakfast left over!!again cracking fish!

Hawkesbury is definately not dead alot of people have no clue how to fish the river, I'd call that around the 25kg mark for sure cracker fish!!

Good haul, not bad for a days fishing, and I'm quite happy to let people think there's no fish left in the hawkesbury... More room for me and less ppl at the boat ramp.. Win win

Fished from spencer down to the road bridges and in between on Saturday during the day and into the night. Caught 6 flathead smallest being 43cm biggest going 57cm 2 jewies one at 55cm the other at 62cm, 4 bream smallest 31cm biggest 37cm... The fish are there you just gotta use the basics to get a feed if ur not getting anything move on.. Everyone says there's no fish left in the river but I disagree.. you gotta fish the river and chase the fiish there are still plenty of good fish in there

I'd say big ray.. Still frustrating as all get out not seeing the monster... Could have been anything

I'm from NSW too, I'm just going on an article I read in fish life just the other day

That mullet your holding I believe is a diamond scale mullet and apparently they are sensational eating.. Great report anyway!

Good fish, and yeah they're not the greatest to eat..

Hawkesbury produces the goods every time, it's not that hard to crack you just have to understand simple fishing logic..mine would be 1. Hawkesbury 2. Sydney harbor 3.port hacking 4. George's

With a pillow on your rig I'm surprised you didn't catch some ZZZZZZZZZ's

Sharking is great fun, can also be rather dangerous. Remember these fish have dangerous mouths, let alone the damage their skin can do to exposed skin too.. My two shark fishing outfits consist large overhead reels, my favourite being a penn senator 16/0 which is pretty oversized but has a special place with me (same reel quint used in jaws) Firstly forget braid altogether. Yes you will get more line on the reel but the stretch mono has to offer is very forgiving both to terminal gear and angler if shore fishing. And most people screw up by trying to get their hands on the biggest hooks imaginable, this is a mistake a size 8/0 or 9/0 hook is enough to handle most sharks, besides that the fish that can straighten these you don't really wanna be messing with too much anyway... I run two rods one with a floating livebait and one with a butterflied mullet or some form of Tuna on the bottom, sometimes people over engineer their rigs making them way more complicated than they need to, If you do a search through some of my old posts I've got a good one on here about shark fishing somewhere, Tight lines brett

I'm thinking tuna, the speed kinda tells me it's not a shark saying that though makos can get up and boogie

A mate of mine fishes up that way with no particular game plan to his method and he usually does alright on the bream and flatties just drifting around with cooked prawns from woolies

I'd love to just crack the 25cm mark for a bass I bought the speed boat for basically bass in the hawkesbury and bream on oyster leases so far neither has panned out as planned ha ha ha but at least this summer In the trailer boat I can cover almost all spots available

I'd cry lol, for private coastline nearly unfished I'll work 30 days on 2 days off lol

Either that or the draw bar is 15 foot long lol