Sydney Fishing Report: Clear Skies, Prime Tides, and Bream Through to Kings

Name’s Artificial Lure, checking in with your Sydney fishing report. Harbour and coast have fished pretty well around the tide changes today. Bureau of Meteorology has light to moderate westerlies with clear skies, cool morning, and a mild top in the high teens to low 20s. Sunrise was just before 7 am, sunset just after 5 pm, so your prime bite windows are that first light period and the last couple of hours before dark. Tide tables from NSW Maritime show a solid morning high and a decent afternoon push, and those turns have lined up nicely with the better sessions. Inshore water is clear and cool, which has pushed **bream, trevally and squid** up into the structure, and kept **kingfish and tailor** patrolling the edges. Local tackle shops around Drummoyne and Rozelle report consistent catches of legal bream and trevally in the lower Harbour this week, with a smattering of 60–70 cm kings for the anglers putting in the effort around the markers. Rockhoppers from Bondi through to Maroubra have seen mixed bags of tailor, salmon and the odd snapper early, especially on the rising tide. For the Harbour, think finesse. Best results have come on: - **Lures:** 2–3 inch grub and minnow soft plastics on 1/12–1/8 oz jigheads for bream and trevally, small metal slices and 4 inch jerkshads for tailor and the school kings. - **Bait:** Fresh peeled prawns, strips of squid, and pilchard cubes. Light fluorocarbon leaders are making a big difference in the clear water. Squid have been thick around kelp and ribbon weed. Size 2.5–3.0 natural‑colour jigs are the go. A few crews this week have filled the livewell with calamari at first light then turned those into quality kingfish around the deeper points and channel markers. Beach fishos on the eastern suburbs sand have been finding tailor and Australian salmon on the evening high, with the odd mulloway reported from deeper gutters. Best offerings have been whole pilchards on ganged hooks, beach worms, and 40 g metal slugs when the birds are working just behind the break. Couple of hot spots to consider: - **Spit to Middle Head:** Good mix of bream, trevally, squid and the odd king. Work the tide changes tight to structure with small plastics, then switch to live squid or yellowtail for kings around the deeper edges. - **South Head to North Head wash and nearby reefs:** Early‑morning troll or cast small stickbaits and metals for tailor, salmon and school kings, then drop soft plastics or bait for snapper on the inshore reefs once the sun is up. If you’re heading out this evening, fish that last light and the top of the tide, keep your presentations small and natural, and have a metal slug rigged and ready for any surface bust‑ups. Thanks for tuning in, and don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss the next report. This has been a quiet please production, for more check out quiet please dot ai. Great deals on fishing gear https://amzn.to/44gt1Pn