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Mechanical jigging for kingfish is not about working the rod as hard as you can. The aim is to build a repeatable rhythm that makes the jig accelerate, pause and change direction through the depth where the fish are holding. Get the rhythm right, keep the jig in the strike zone and the technique bec...

Like a lot of our readers I had some friends in town over the break. Doug and Richard are from California, where they usually chase stream trout. Those are hard to find around Sydney so Bonito Alley was our planned area of operations: That’s the nickname for the coastal stretch between Sydney’s Sou...

Dave writes this morning, about fishing at Texas reef off Terrigal on Saturday: Package arrived yesterday thanks mate, we missed the opportunity to use it as we were out early getting bait and then out to Texas........it was horrible and slow, so many barracoota and plenty of red algae Josh stayed i...

Squid. I don’t need to tell our readers what a fantastic asset they are. Just about essential, when chasing jewfish. Deadly on snapper. Preferred over everything else, by kings. Right now in Sydney we're experiencing a good run of kingfish inside the Harbour. If you can find squid, you will score a ...

Our crew has a pretty standard plan for fishing off Sydney, during winter. Watch the forecast until it predicts an early morning westerly which lightens up, by the middle of the day. Head for Brown’s Mountain, 22 miles east. Stopover for some kingfish jigging on the way there and back. When it all c...