Hi raiders,
In the last 3 weeks i have fished sydney harbour 3 times for poor results. We went out friday the 16th, tuesday the 27th and friday 30th of december. Each time we go out more prepared yet our results seem to get worse each outing. We fish mainly around the wedding cakes for the elusive kingfish but we are yet to receive a decent bite let alone boat a kingie. Whilst it is suggested that live yakkas and squid is a must it is quite easier said than done whilst we are able to berley the yakkas up to the boat it seems impossible to get them on the bite. As for the kings well weve almost given up we'd settle to cathch anything that swims. Whilst we think were doing all the right things something must be going wrong if the raiders good possibly provide any suggestions that would be greatly aprreciated.
the berley mix we use contains bread, chicken pellets, and fish pieces usually slimies or yellow tails whatever is going cheap at the fish market soaked in tuna oil and thrown out liberally at the various fishing spots.
baits include salted pilchards, fresh squid, peeled prawn, salted whitebaits
our most recent trip conprised the use of the baits plus the berley mix i mentioned earlier we focused our efforts around the spit both sides and both wedding cakes 8 hours of fishing which produced only 3 fish none of which were keepers an undersized snapper and tailor and a 1m nasty eel that nearly ate our toes off, quite depressing when the kids at rose bay boat ramp scored a better catch in the time it took us to put the boat on the trailer.
any suggestion would be much appreciated because at the moment everything is
