Rock and Beach Fishing Report by Alex Bellissimo:
Alex Bellissimo Guided Fishing Tours and Tuition 
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June Report 2008
The migrational run of the sub temperate and cooler water species combined is once again making the May, June period really exiting.  I just love fishing at this time of the year.  Here’s what’s been happening recently from the rocks and beaches with my clients.           

BEACH FISHING:  The Tailor action is on fire at the moment with Dee Why , Narrabeen ,and Manly beach’s being regular haunts for these gelatine machines with some fish up to two kg plus but the very next day producing fish of half the weight. Brad Anderson had a ball on these green back Tailor and they bit well into the night coming through in flurries even though it was during that unreliable time, flat seas of less than half a metre.  When the seas have been up slightly more I have been getting  fisho’s onto fairly regular halls of school jewis.  Jeff Wall was one happy chap with Whaler Sharks to 1.3m Tailor to 1.5kg and an 8kg Jew all caught on live Yellowtail and sweep. Being a fairly flat night of about .7 of a metre we fished in close generally about twenty metres out for best results. 

Stewart Williams and Mike Anderson travel from the Blue Mountains for several seasons to target the elusive jewfish for no results so they needed to be guided.  On the night the fish were on fire with bites from JEWFISH, Sharks, and Tailor every cast. The Tailor were up to at least 2kg and they were abundant with Whaler Sharks virtually every cast at one stage as well.  The Jewfish came in flurries  with  4 fish to  at least 5kg landed and I counted a minimum six missed bites from jewis . That’s virtually as good as it gets the only obvious way to better that is larger fish. 
The bait used was very fresh Squid strips and squid heads and some very fresh frozen Squid from the tackle shop which appeared to work just a well and The  haul of fish were from the “Pines “ North Narrabeen Beach. 

 Darryl Dewar also had a similar scenario having to travel a fairly long distance to the salti brine and it did pay off.  Coincidently every time his kids would call him in the mobile  he would say a nice Tailor, next call another nice Tailor, then they called again and he caught a ripper of a Salmon of at least 4kg then on the last call a nice jewi of at least 6kg and my client was just back-flipping. We called it a night  fairly soon afterwards. All of the fish were caught on live Yellow Tail and “Chrissie trees” .    
 Retirees John and Lorraine Kennedy had a ball on the Whiting using live Beach Worms off Dee Why Beach with fish to 34cm from the “pole area” . It never seas to amazes me how well semi  retired and retired people can adapt to an art that they had no idea about, being humble and having humiliation is the key to this art that we can adopt from our matured folks.                                            

                    The Rocks: regular customer Rob Marich had a session fishing for Snapper using Red Crab segment’s  with “Squire” to 1.5kg , Bream to 1.1kg and a Brown Groper of about 2kg.  It’s a slight differentiation in technique in comparison to fish bait Snapper fishing.  The location fished was Bluefish Point’s eastern front but as I keep maintaining only venture to these type of locations if you are familiar with the ocean rhythms and hidden dangers.  John halford had a Snapper experience but this time it was applied using fish baits (pillies) and the results were quite good getting into 5 Snapper to 1kg  and Trevally to near 1kg also. Both snapper sessions were fishing the wash using light led’s and of course burley was essential and the location was Curl Curl’s  “flat rock” area and  fishing reasonably flat conditions just after a moderate swell.    
  I ventured down to the Eastern Suburbs rocks to a location that I had never fished before being Bronte Rocks with one of my regular customers Jacob Rolls.  We fished with peeled Wild Tiger prawns and Bread burley for 10 Rock blackfish to 1.7kg with heaps of undersized pigs being a pest so moving around was a wise choice.  It just comes to show that by using the correct formulas  anglers  can find fish in completely new territory .  So that’s  just a portion of what’s happening recently, 

Happy and Smart fishin.
Alex Bellissimo
Alex Bellissimo Guided Fishing Tours and Tuition 
0408283616 OR 0299714070

August 2007 Report

The last few weeks have seen fishing pick up nicely off the beaches, and i've managed to pick up several nice fish both for myself and for my customers.
Jewfish have been the main game lately, and there have been a few rewards. Billy Plumber came out with me for the third time a couple of days back (the first two were black drummer or "pig" trips) and i took him out to newport to teach him a few tricks and try and pick up a Jew. I had landed a six kilo fish a couple of days earlier so i felt confident. Billy did manage to hook one up that looked around 8kg, though unfortunately we only got a sighting before it dropped the hooks and skulked away.
A live Yakka did the trick, as it did for me a couple of days later, when i landed a beautiful 25kg specimen right on dusk, off North Narrabeen. The lake entrance wasn't open but it was still fishing well! They are doing dredging work inside the mouth however.

Mike Smith came out with me to learn about searching the beach for worms, and using them in the close gutters. He had a reasonable day out too, with plenty of worms found, leading to a nice bag of 2 Bream and 5 nice sized Whiting.

There are plenty of fish about for those who wish to target different species as well. Herman Uriola landed a 3lb Bream and a 3.5kg Salmon, interestingly using Salmon for bait. Ed Caught Trevally, Bream, Salmon and Tailor off Mona Vale pool, and Matt Johns fished South Curly baths for Flatties to 1.5kilos using pillies for bait.

There are also plenty of Whaler sharks coming back on, mostly between the 1/2 to 1 metre mark.

If you would like to learn more about catching any of these or any other fish from the rocks or the beaches please feel free to contact me on 0408 283 616

Cheers

Alex Bellissimo

Alex Bellissimo Fishing Tours and Tuition:
Phone: 0408 283 616
Web: www.bellissimocharters.com

Alex Bellissimo is one of Sydneys most accomplished Beach and Rock fishermen, with a treasure trove of hard earned knowledge guaranteed to make you a better angler. From catching your own worms to landing a massive Jewfish or Kingfish, he will teach you his techniques, the same ones he has used to win many a fishing tournament NSW wide.

Contact Alex for more information
Ph: 0408 283 616
Web: www.bellissimocharters.com