Masses of great 6 kilo plus Queenfish were encountered in the river mouths. At
times, all anglers hooked up together, jumping fish hooked by anglers on fly in one boat almost landing into other skiffs 100 yards away. For
3 magic sessions over 3 consecutive days it was another “Seafaris moments” where the air is filled with laughter, screaming reels, whoops
and shouts as fish jump, jump off, another gets on, tangled, untangled, landed photographed released…. great stuff.
All anglers caught these magnificent fighting jumping sportfish on fly or spin rods.
I was using a light spin rod with a hook less popper, an absolute buzz to watch the slashing strike and feel the first 4 to 6 seconds of the fish run before spitting the plastic out and another grabbing before I could get it back to make another cast. I’ve got this plan to put velcro on one of these poppers and see if I can not land one with our hooks.
This is the guy to talk to in Sydney regarding anything to do with fishing, especially this sort of fishing.
Derek Maynard Manager, Compleat Angler Sydney City.
Theo displaying a just landed Queenie while Malcom gets his hand off the spinning fly reel fast as the backing peels off.
Some great sport and some fine fillets for the table were provided by our guests fishing the close inshore rocky reefs. The hard
fighting Black Jew or northern Mullaway only seem to take baits as we tried all other methods (on several occasions) unsuccessfully.
This pile of fish fed us for more than one meal and provided a couple nice take home
packs. Same fish on it’s way to the table via Zatch’s beer batter.
Every afternoon as the run in tide covered and washed over the once exposed sand bars the fish would congregate and the birds will tell tail there presence. It was a given for us to station ourselves on these sandbars and catch our fill of normally a little smaller queenfish in the 2 to 3 kilo range great sport on your lighter spin rod or 6 weight fly. Other larger fish like the one below were also caught at this location on
every making tide. This popper fly caught Golden Trevally took Dr. Eng Tan 50 minutes to land as he thought it was another small queenie for the
first 20 minutes and then another 30 minutes of hard fighting in the current before finally being lead to the landing net.
Not bad for the very first fish caught the very first time ever you tied on
popper fly. Barramundi’s were caught, some large ones were caught and released on baits in the snags and some smaller ones were a lot of fun from the shore on the fly rods.
A very well rounded trip with the only exception from the capture list being the tunas, some were caught on day last but not in the numbers of the previous trips.
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