Fishing Report 12 January 2025
Narrabeen Bait and Tackle
Fishing Report – 12 January 2025
Welcome to 2025
Welcome to 2025 and our first report for the new year. We have been too busy to write a report so far – sorry !
Thank you to our regular customers and visitors for your support over the Christmas and New Year period. We had a very busy time in the shop and we very much appreciate your patronage.
Let’s hope that 2025 is a year of good health, good times, and good fishing.
Here’s what has been biting lately.
Beaches
Good sized whiting are being taken at North Narrabeen, Collaroy, and Dee Why beaches on fresh and live beach worms or peeled Hawkesbury prawns. Some decent bream have been taken at South Narrabeen near the Surf Club and Fisherman’s Beach at Long Reef. Best baits are Hawkesbury prawns, worms or pilchards.
Several jewfish have been landed at the Pines at Narrabeen and at Dee Why. Use fresh local squid for best results.
Narrabeen Lake
Flathead, bream and whiting are on the bite at present, Try the Ocean St bridge area on the rising tide for whiting using beach or tube worms. The Pittwater Rd bridge has seen regular catches of flathead in the 60cm+ range using half pilchards.
Bream and Longtom are also in good numbers throughout the lake with the Jamieson Park area being productive for bigger bream. Use larger peeled banana prawns for best results.
Soft plastics and soft vibes are also accounting for many bream and flathead and the whiting are responding well to topwater lures such as Sugapens and slippery dogs.
Offshore
Snapper are in good numbers up to 3kg on the closer reefs – try Long Reef, Boltons and Esmeralda. Best baits are fresh squid or slimy mackerel. Plenty of berley is recommended to get them on the bite.
There are plenty of flathead on the drift off Palm Beach and Mona Vale flathead grounds in 40-50m depth range. Best baits are mullet strips and pilchards.
There have been large schools of bait fish with the warmer currents and these are attracting mac tuna, frigate mackerel and other pelagics including some x-large kings.
Dolphin fish are on the wide FADs – not in big numbers but some big fish being taken. They are a bit fussy though!
Pittwater and Sydney Harbour
Schools of salmon and tailor have been showing up regularly off Mackerel Beach, Barrenjoey Headland, and the Basin. Some of these schools often are accompanied by bonito. Small metal lures or whitebait have been the most successful options when fishing these areas.
Kingfish have been taken in the Clareville area and Careel Bay on green-eyed squid or larger peeled banana prawns drifted into a berley trail.
In the Harbour, the action has been hot with lots of bait schools being chased by large frigate mackerel, salmon, large tailor and bonito. Try off Balmoral right through to Garden Island.
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THIS WEEKS SPECIALS
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Stainless steel smokers – Normally $115 Now $50 to clear