I think the days of consistently catching 5kg reds off sydney are long gone. The months leading up to and
including spring are proberbly your best chance.Fish 0f 1-2kg range are pretty consistent all year round,but
sometimes you may have to work a little harder to find them.I personally like to fish water 35-50mtrs on
all sorts of ground,most times do not have a problem with the jackets at this depth.As for a surefire way
to always catch snapper i have yet to find it ,as you already have caught good reds in S.A. you
would know the general musts of catching reds,i.e. steady burley trail,freshest bait available,least amount
of lead possible, soft plastics are also another option.As for location edges of hard reef,broken reef,or gravel,if you can't find anything on the sounder try drifting until you find fish and anchor up.I believe
there are 10kg fish off sydney just gotta catch it . As big rexxie says if we always caught fish it would
be called CATCHING
p.s. did reply to your p.m.
i'm going out this friday if you want to come along