What is the best jig for salmon?

The good ol’ Buzz Bomb is the jig that’s most commonly associated with near-surface jigging. This free-sliding, diamond-shaped lure can be fished vertically like most other metal jigs if you’re fishing fairly shallow water, but it’s best-suited to what some call horizontal jigging.

What is the best lure for Australian salmon?

So I mainly use metal lures ranging in size from 15 grams up to 25 grams only, hard body minnows up to approx 10cm, and soft plastics also up to around the 10-12cm mark. I believe that this covers all the baitfish from the very small to the medium size that Salmon chase after to eat.

How do you catch salmon in Sydney?

Using trolling lures, various baits and flies si probably the best way to catch salmon. Salmon is a strong fish and can break the water surface in trying to break the line.

Where can I fish for kingfish in Sydney?

Some of the best kingie spots around Sydney coastal waters are the Whale, the Colours, Long Reef, Northerners and the Twelve Mile. Inside the Harbour, the kings can turn up just about anywhere from the Sydney Harbour Bridge right around to Middle Harbour.

How do you catch Kingfish in Sydney Harbour?

The accurate casting comes into it’s own when fishing smaller pods of Kingfish in Sydney Harbour and Pittwater, they will often just pop up for a few seconds in the one area. It pays to sit in or around the area and wait until they sound. Move in as fast as practicable to the fish trying not put them down or causing too much wash.

When did Kingfish fishing start on the east coast?

I just missed out the on the kingie jigging fad that swept the boat fishing scene on the east coast throughout the ‘60s and early ‘70s. Crazy days on Sydney’s close offshore reefs of which the “Peak” was the jewel in the crown.

Who is the camera man for Sydney Harbour Kingfish?

Tailor and bonito fishermen were starting to complain about the number of fish they were getting swiped by kingies. So frantic were the kings during a filming session I did with ET for his new Foxtel show, renowned fishing camera man John Hankey commented that it was the hottest action that he had seen anywhere in many years.

What’s the best bait to catch a Kingfish?

Its called progress and now in the year 2018 the best bait for kingies is squid —-just as it always has been –we just didn’t know it. Kingies will accept a wide range of baits and techniques. They will pick up a stray bream bait, grab a trolled minnow lure, eat the occasional live bait and pick up a crab drifted down for Grouper.