St Georges basin.

[DTROJAN]

Hi all,

Am heading down the basin for a few days for a break. If any one has any info re general areas i shouldnt overlook for a feed (bream whiting flatties). Also, is it worth taking the prawning gear. Any advice would be greatly appreciated as its my first time visiting this area.

p.s any areas worth a pump for nippers/worms?

thanks

pete.

Edited February 19, 2011 by DTROJAN

[70%ludite]

Hi there not sure of your fishing style but if your using soft plastics and hard bodies you cant go wrong.Try some surface

lures on any of the flats for whiting and bream and maybe flattys.Over the cockle beds are a great place for bream as well.You

catch a lot of fish no more than 20mtrs from the shoreline and in less than a 1mtr of water.Use poppers and pencils the surface

action is good at the moment.Hope that helps.

cheers....Roy

[DTROJAN]

Hi there not sure of your fishing style but if your using soft plastics and hard bodies you cant go wrong.Try some surface

lures on any of the flats for whiting and bream and maybe flattys.Over the cockle beds are a great place for bream as well.You

catch a lot of fish no more than 20mtrs from the shoreline and in less than a 1mtr of water.Use poppers and pencils the surface

action is good at the moment.Hope that helps.

cheers....Roy

Due to laziness I usually use bait, but in saying that i have allready packed the plastics rod and a good variety of both plastics , blades and hardbodys. Have rented a waterfront property with its own ramp so i think i will have time to experiment. Thanks for the tip.

cheers

pete.

Edited February 21, 2011 by DTROJAN

[Simple Truths]

Fished it for the first time in January. Put the boat in at Erowal Bay boat ramp. Motored 2 k's towards Sussex Inlet. Dropped the anchor in 4m in the weed beds. Had fresh green prawns caught three days earlier. 1st cast - whiting. 2nd cast whiting. 3rd, horse of a bream.... and so it went for 3 hours - fat bream, whiting, leatherjacketrs, flatties, even blurter trevally. Fished deeper water, moved up to the entrance, and generally tried to work the area out, but I'd recommend the weed-beds, in shallow, fresh bait of SP's. 1 in 5 were legal size, but so what. Great day on the water all told.

We kept it simple, fished as light as possible and quiet as possible, and burleyed up with old pilchards. Interestingly, my mate used king prawns bought at Sydney Fish market a week earlier. He out-fished me in quality, not quantity - i.e his fish were uniformly bigger.... colour of his prawns maybe??

The joint is a brilliant fishery.

JOC

[DTROJAN]

Fished it for the first time in January. Put the boat in at Erowal Bay boat ramp. Motored 2 k's towards Sussex Inlet. Dropped the anchor in 4m in the weed beds. Had fresh green prawns caught three days earlier. 1st cast - whiting. 2nd cast whiting. 3rd, horse of a bream.... and so it went for 3 hours - fat bream, whiting, leatherjacketrs, flatties, even blurter trevally. Fished deeper water, moved up to the entrance, and generally tried to work the area out, but I'd recommend the weed-beds, in shallow, fresh bait of SP's. 1 in 5 were legal size, but so what. Great day on the water all told.

We kept it simple, fished as light as possible and quiet as possible, and burleyed up with old pilchards. Interestingly, my mate used king prawns bought at Sydney Fish market a week earlier. He out-fished me in quality, not quantity - i.e his fish were uniformly bigger.... colour of his prawns maybe??

The joint is a brilliant fishery.

JOC

Sounds like fun, we will be there for 5 days and i reckon thats just about enough time to get a good feel of the place.

thanks for the reply.

pete.

Edited February 22, 2011 by DTROJAN

[Longy]

Sounds like fun, we will be there for 5 days and i reckon thats just about enough time to get a good feel of the place.

thanks for the reply.

pete.

Hi Pete,

Looking forward to reading how you go.

Will be heading up that way for the Easter/Anzac extra-long weekend, will spend 5 days also. A couple years back, went there for the first time, and first time boating, so didn't do much fishing, more of a case of learning the craft of handling a boat, on the sencond day out (in crappy, windy and raining session) we managed a few keeper flatties in and around sand flats (with weed beds), tried the artifical reefs, had alot of pickers but did see a group coming back in with 5 or so stonker breams (near the 40cm mark each).

But this time will have more time on the water and better prepared for fishing.

Regards,

Longy

[DTROJAN]

Hi Pete,

Looking forward to reading how you go.

Will be heading up that way for the Easter/Anzac extra-long weekend, will spend 5 days also. A couple years back, went there for the first time, and first time boating, so didn't do much fishing, more of a case of learning the craft of handling a boat, on the sencond day out (in crappy, windy and raining session) we managed a few keeper flatties in and around sand flats (with weed beds), tried the artifical reefs, had alot of pickers but did see a group coming back in with 5 or so stonker breams (near the 40cm mark each).

But this time will have more time on the water and better prepared for fishing.

Regards,

Longy

Gday Longy,

we did really well, landed roughly 20 good fish in 2 outings, 9 snapper between 33-39cm and 11 bream between 30-38cm. If you want the mark for the spot i found, let me know.

cheers

pete.

[Yarraone]

Hi Pete,

Looking forward to reading how you go.

Will be heading up that way for the Easter/Anzac extra-long weekend, will spend 5 days also. A couple years back, went there for the first time, and first time boating, so didn't do much fishing, more of a case of learning the craft of handling a boat, on the sencond day out (in crappy, windy and raining session) we managed a few keeper flatties in and around sand flats (with weed beds), tried the artifical reefs, had alot of pickers but did see a group coming back in with 5 or so stonker breams (near the 40cm mark each).

But this time will have more time on the water and better prepared for fishing.

Regards,

Longy

Hi Longy, I will be there for easter as well and will be fishing the inlet as well as the basin.. give me a holler if you see me out there.. I have a 4.7m brown "monark" named "HOOKED" (in yellow) with a blue bimini.. it is my profile pic..If the weather is good I might even go up to jervis bay for the day and try outside. I would be glad to take you along

[adams apple]

hi guys

nice work mate with the fish

i will be going down in a few weeks time and am just wondering what bait / lures you used. and if you dont mind can you please put the gps cordinates up of the spot you found.

cheers adams apple

[DTROJAN]

hi guys

nice work mate with the fish

i will be going down in a few weeks time and am just wondering what bait / lures you used. and if you dont mind can you please put the gps cordinates up of the spot you found.

cheers adams apple

Gday,

we only fished baits. Hawkesbury prawns mainly and live poddy mullet also worked well. Had to burley and be patient for about an hour on both outings. Would prefer to send the gps mark as a private message(took me 2 days of sounding around to pick this spot).

[adams apple]

hi dtrojan

it would be grarely appreciated if you could pm me with the details.

good luck fishing

cheers adams apple

[kanemel09]

would i be able to get the mark off you by any chance i will be going down after easter and wouldnt mind trying somewhere different after i have given my usual spots a go

cheers

kane

[The Rev]

On 28/02/2011 at 11:38 PM, DTROJAN said:

Gday Longy,

we did really well, landed roughly 20 good fish in 2 outings, 9 snapper between 33-39cm and 11 bream between 30-38cm. If you want the mark for the spot i found, let me know.

cheers

pete.

Hi Pete

i just sent you a PM re spots to try.  I am down here for 9 nights and went today but caught only 3 small throw backs.  Any tips would be greatly appreciated 

cheers

bruce

 

[Repb7]

Could I please get the GPS marks from where you caught the snapper