Fishing Georges River

[domza]

has anyone got any reports from the georges river? Im thinking of having short sessions on the way home from work around milperra bridge..

What exactly can i catch there and what baits do i use?

Its been a while since i've been there, but all i can remember catching there was small tailor (on the surface usually) eels, and bream

[jewgaffer]

has anyone got any reports from the georges river? Im thinking of having short sessions on the way home from work around milperra bridge..

What exactly can i catch there and what baits do i use?

Its been a while since i've been there, but all i can remember catching there was small tailor (on the surface usually) eels, and bream

Hi Domza I can think of nothing much better for a worker than to keep having short sessions at one particular spot on the way home from work. Milperra Bridge would be a good place to call into regardless of weather or tide..... After a while you would be able to work out the prime tides and slow tides for yourself and it woud be a good way to guage the whole of the upper Georges, although the number of fish holding in other spots would vary, the fish would either be active or inactive and that's what you need to get to recognise and apply to get the best bite period which comes out of consistent episodes as all fish feed spasmodically at best..... So I would note how Milperra was performing for each species including jewfish which may well be holed up and in numbers by now on the Bankstown side which you can access alongside the last house before the traffic lights on the south side of the Drive.., and apply the conditions, the tides and the times to other areas for fishing in the afternoons in the future.....You can get your live bait either along the river on Henry Lawson Drive near the drive into Bankstown airport and park right where you fish, before you get to the shops at the boat ramp turn off......... Or drive into the last street on the left before you cross Milperra bridge on the Moorebank side, where you should also get whiting and flathead and bream according to the school sizes coming into fossick in close on the run in tide, but it's best to pick where it looks like it would fish best on the day before you settle in along there or any other shallow section anywhere for that matter.

It's good to be able to work and fish at the same time or after work before you go home........I used be a Sydney cab driver, and at one stage I owned a Legion cab, a Camden cab and an RSl cab and could chose whichever cab I wanted to fish with..... Like the many other Sydney cab drivers who must have carried fishing rods in the boot whenever they disappeared into thin air, it was only natural those days that passengers were left stranded on cab ranks particularly when they were subpoena'd to court....... so to help out here I carried my tackle bag wrapped and addressed as a two sided parcel in the passengers seat or a jockey and we were only headed towards either Palm beach one day and Cronulla and Engadine from anywhere the next, but were only too willing to help out if we could..... Those days people were only too happy to finally get home, mind you you'd always get the odd ball who played the piano on the dash board and eventually spewing all over the meter.......If it wasn't like winning the lottery or a life and death matter, finally getting home those days in some cases even before we started our beach session, was nothing worse than a hankerchief full of tears and naturally we made a lot friends on our fishing days......... We were very understanding towards people asleep on suit cases waiting to catch the next day's plane after they missed the first...... Little old ladies stranded at cab ranks heading for the far northern beaches were always rescued and included in our trip and would often buy our lunch at Narrabeen, but times are diffrent now......... Those were the boom years for fishing cab drivers.... Monday nights and Thursdays were a special because Hawkesbury trots and Dapto dogs were on and being a long way from home, our central railway pick ups waited till we finished our beach sessions and our Dixon Street regulars going to Dapto dogs didn't mind a bit of a wait and tipped on top of that and usually got some sort of a fish on the way home for free especially when they done their money at the dogs...... Things have changed these days so it's not much use walking along beach front car parks looking for a cab and then tapping the driver on the shoulder when your running late for work

Cheers

jewgaffer

Edited February 25, 2009 by jewgaffer