Fishing the Hawkesbury

[Nutz4Fishin]

I am heading up to the hawkesbury in a week or so for a few nights on a houseboat leaving from lower Portland area. We are looking at doing a bit of fishing throughout the trip as I will be bringing my boat along. We went the same time last year and mainly anchored up in the vicinity of wisemans ferry near walkers beach caravan park although all we caught were eels.

Looking for any information that may help us at least catch a fish this year. I have no knowledge on the hawkesbury whatsoever!!

[Guest]

Good moon and time to fish around wisemans for a jewie or 2 but this rain may stuff it all up

[Berleyguts]

I stayed at the van at Wisemans from Thursday arvo to Monday and it was nice to see water temps of 26-27 degrees and a bit of salt about - a few jellyfish. Well, at least there was salt about until the rains on Sunday/Monday. I didn't fish too hard - just up to 2 hour sessions around the tide changes mostly on the Thursday and Friday. As the weekend progressed, the boat traffic increased (damn I hate wake boats!) and the tide changes didn't fit around my social calendar so well (even though I was baching it - go figure!). There was a lot of mullet running and also plenty of herring about down around Laughtondale-Gunderman. I wasn't bothered much by catfish. I caught none of the usual slimy eels but I did catch a different type of eel, possibly a pike eel(?) near Del Rio. Picked up a 40cm flattie on the tide change about 8pm Thursday below Laughtondale. Got my first mud crab ever in the pot (yum!) across from the park and my mate at the park got a couple in his pot tied straight off the jetty. I had some promising readings on the sounder along the rock walls between Leets Vale and Dad's, so might be worth a go for bream. If the rain has brought too much fresh in (and probably plenty of debris with it), I'd be heading down below the ferries, catching some herring on bait jigs and putting them out for jewies on the tide changes at night.

Good luck!

Baz

[Day's Fishin]

Before the deluge the water was salty right up to Sackville. There was abundant species of fish all the way through the system although the prawn trailers were having a rough time due to the big tides. Now with all the fresh in the system the fish will head further down the river so the fishing should be good from about Bar point onward to Broken Bay. A long way far a houseboat to go from Lower Portland.

Regards Jeff

[Nutz4Fishin]

Thanks fellas. Just like this time last year massive down pour of rain before we went and it killed the fishing, plus all the sh!t in the water. See how we go anyway.