Big Tides

[jay power]

hi all .thinking of doing some landbased fishing tommorow nite,

down at captain cook bridge for jewies.im just wandering is the

big tide we are expecting tommorow nite any good to fish there

as i expect the water to be running hard.

thanks

cheers jay

[jewgaffer]

hi all .thinking of doing some landbased fishing tommorow nite,

down at captain cook bridge for jewies.im just wandering is the

big tide we are expecting tommorow nite any good to fish there

as i expect the water to be running hard.

thanks

cheers jay

Hi jay I gather your intention is to fish off the rocks on the south side. Don't worry whatsover about "tide running hard" for jew, look at the Hawkesbury. You'll be casting near the distance of the first pylon which acts as a buffer and remember as they start their run, both tides have to push into a wall of water in Botany Bay.

The high tide is generally about 40 minutes late by the time it hits CC bridge at its peak. There would be a delay of a good hour and a half until the water starts to gather momentum and commences to run back out evenly at all depths.

The period of still water, mixed up flow at the the top of the tide and after and immediately followed by a period of less current and then a medium build up as the tide starts to run out, should be the prime time for the CC Bridge jewfish.

The big tide is going to add more water height at the the rocks for your yellowtail and around the pylon area and further away for your tailor which are still prolific in that area. Naturally you should find baitfish coming up higher in the water column around the bridge and the rocks in front of you.

For the tailor you'll need to cast a heavy weighted float fairly wide of the first pylon and watch the float as it drifts along. You will need to cast and retrieve small pieces of prawn continually until you hook up. The heavy float will slow down the drift and should bob back up and hook up the tailor.

While your baitfishing have a jew rod out with a sinker at the maximum weight for a good cast with a beach rod. The sinker won't move off the bottom but the line may bloom out. The current never runs hard enough to make you have to retrieve a bait with the right sinker on.

For your tailor, plastic floats are availble that have a tapered wedge which is pushed thru the float alongside the line to act as a stopper. You can reverse the wedge, fit a 38mm holder and a chem light to it and secure the wedge in tight.

Fish in close using a 6-7' rod on a lighter float with the same chem light set up for your yellowtail, casting and retrieving continually under your own jew rod and under the lines of the other jewfishermen.

Work hard at catching your baitfish and have a swivel and running sinker half way down from your float to keep the bait straight down on approx a 1 metre long leader rigged to suit your toothy tailor, and have a stopper for your split shot float at up to 500mm for your yellowtail and if there is room follow your float along as far as you can.

Jay this could be your turn to catch jewfish landbased in a proven spot and it's not a worry that there is only around six to eight feet of water in the sandy sections where you'll be casting.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

jewgaffer

Edited July 4, 2008 by jewgaffer

[jay power]

Hi jay I gather your intention is to fish off the rocks on the south side. Don't worry whatsover about "tide running hard" for jew, look at the Hawkesbury. You'll be casting near the distance of the first pylon which acts as a buffer and remember as they start their run, both tides have to push into a wall of water in Botany Bay.

The high tide is generally about 40 minutes late by the time it hits CC bridge at its peak. There would be a delay of a good hour and a half until the water starts to gather momentum and commences to run back out evenly at all depths.

The period of still water, mixed up flow at the the top of the tide and after and immediately followed by a period of less current and then a medium build up as the tide starts to run out, should be the prime time for the CC Bridge jewfish.

The big tide is going to add more water height at the the rocks for your yellowtail and around the pylon area and further away for your tailor which are still prolific in that area. Naturally you should find baitfish coming up higher in the water column around the bridge and the rocks in front of you.

For the tailor you'll need to cast a heavy weighted float fairly wide of the first pylon and watch the float as it drifts along. You will need to cast and retrieve small pieces of prawn continually until you hook up. The heavy float will slow down the drift and should bob back up and hook up the tailor.

While your baitfishing have a jew rod out with a sinker at the maximum weight for a good cast with a beach rod. The sinker won't move off the bottom but the line may bloom out. The current never runs hard enough to make you have to retrieve a bait with the right sinker on.

For your tailor, plastic floats are availble that have a tapered wedge which is pushed thru the float alongside the line to act as a stopper. You can reverse the wedge, fit a 38mm holder and a chem light to it and secure the wedge in tight.

Fish in close using a 6-7' rod on a lighter float with the same chem light set up for your yellowtail, casting and retrieving continually under your own jew rod and under the lines of the other jewfishermen.

Work hard at catching your baitfish and have a swivel and running sinker half way down from your float to keep the bait straight down on approx a 1 metre long leader rigged to suit your toothy tailor, and have a stopper for your split shot float at up to 500mm for your yellowtail and if there is room follow your float along as far as you can.

Jay this could be your turn to catch jewfish landbased in a proven spot and it's not a worry that there is only around six to eight feet of water in the sandy sections where you'll be casting.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

jewgaffer

once again jewgaffer thanks for the advise,weather permitting tonite i will be there