Fishing the Hawkesbury

[us4toons]

Trying to find other people who fish the hawkesbury would like some reports I know the ABT hold a round out there but thats all.
need help

Cheers,
Gareth

[White_Steenbras]

Yeah a mate of mine has fished there a heap, seems to pick good Jew and bream up, he has a boat though. What kind of fishing you doing, bait or lures?

[land_based]

Mate the hawkesberry is a huge system, land based or boat there is always a chance of a big jewie, hairtail, tailor, kingies bream whiting flathead leather jacket and the lsit goes on. Fish the river with fresh hawkesberry river prawns on the least amount of lead possible and some top bream can be caught in any of the estuarys. Middle of June ill be flying down there to try to get onto some jew, good luck mate!

[us4toons]

Hi white_steenbras
i normally fish with bait but i would like to get into lures so its possable to enter some comps.

[us4toons]

if anyone has any good spots to try it would be helpful need to get to by foot as i dont have a boat yet.

[White_Steenbras]

Check out the Adam Royter DVD, can buy at BigW Kmart and tackle shops and maybe a starters pack of plakkys too. Then from there start practising and collecting more and more and more, trust me it never stops...........

[TonyM]

Sorry, I don't have many land based spots to point you at, although can point you at several great spots if you are in a boat.

One land based that springs to mind is on the old wharves at Brooklyn (although watch your step) - Also under the freeway bridge can be good (watch for broken glass) Have caught some nice fish there including jewies, bream, flatties, pike eels and heaps of catfish. Soft plastics well worth a try, or if you prefer bait use bottle squid if you can get them, fresh mullet strips/gut works really well on the bream and flatties.

I used to live on the river and know some great spots for stonker bream, monster flatties, and sand crabs - All boat based though

Geez I miss jumping in my tinny from the backyard and scooting out for a fish down there!

[us4toons]

cheers tony.

in the Sunday Telegraph there was a Monsta Bream 47cm in berowa creek

[TonyM]

If you fish in amongst the oyster racks you can get them around that size regularly be prepared to lose a fair amount of gear though