Forty Baskets Worth A Try If Trendy Dory Are To Your Taste
Sydney Morning Herald
Wednesday July 19, 1989
There are many people who are willing to pay big money to enjoy a gourmet meal of john dory fillets. Prices sometimes top $20 a kilogram.
For others, namely me, this fish is greatly over-rated, although it is still a prized catch if only for its trendy value.
John dory are now starting to bite fairly well both in Sydney Harbour and in Port Hacking.
Wharves in Rose Bay and Watsons Bay are perhaps the top spots in Sydney Harbour, but the moorings near Forty Baskets Beach at Manly are also worth a try.
Moorings around The Spit and up as far as Tunks Park at Northbridge can also produce john dory at times.
These fish are being taken in parts of Port Hacking such as South West Arm, and in Yowie, Burraneer and Gunnamatta Bay.
It seems that the secret to catching a john dory is using the right bait, which must be small live yellowtail.
Fishing in Botany Bay is quiet, but good hauls of leather jackets are being made from the eastern side of the container wall, says Laurie Pakullus, of Mac's Bait Shop, Blakehurst.
While a few flathead are still being caught, they are not as plentiful as several weeks ago.
Big flathead are being taken on the drift outside, mostly off Long Bay.
Bream are starting to move up the Georges River and have become more finicky than ever.
Good catches have been made this week at night in Great Moon and Little Moon Bays.
If you can brave the cold weather, fish with chicken gut or mullet gut close to the oyster leases on the top of a big tide. The rewards are good with bream a kilogram or more as the prize.
© 1989 Sydney Morning Herald
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