Fishing Sydney Harbour: Using Bait, Soft Plastics and Metal Lures to CATCH FISH!

[@Michael_R.1972]

Another nice video Mel 🙌

[@spikesfishing]

Glad you liked it! See you out on the water soon 👋

[@MargaretMitchell-g1c]

G'day Mel that old wharf you were near in Sydney harbour was a coal loader. When I was a kid in the 1960s I'd fish there with my dad. Bream and leather jackets were the main species with some black fish thrown in. Mussels were the bait we'd pull them off the pilons. Also the big yakka you got make good sushi. Top video as usual, tight lines. The thing in the flatty is a mantis shrimp.

[@jasethejewman]

37 years fishing lures in the harbour can be great fishing... 👍

[@colinmyers8841]

Hi Mel , and Gday from sunny Queensland , top vid this one , thank you , cheers

[@spikesfishing]

Thanks for watching, hope Queensland fishing is treating you well 🎣♥️

[@ianbertenshaw4350]

Never seen a mantis shrimp in the harbour or parra river before , caught them in the Hawkesbury though . If you got a minute to spare look up mantis shrimp on KZbin- fascinating little creature and viscous ! Great to see you travel to a different system again and catch fish - you’re a better angler than you give yourself credit for .

[@spikesfishing]

Yeah, I know they're around but haven't had the pleasure yet! Thanks for the heads up, I had a look and wow what a shrimp. Would be wild to see a live one in real life!🎣

[@Bilskirnir030]

I reckon most of them moored boats sit n sit. Used few times new then just sit. Gorgeous catch, I know a few say not eat from the harbour, I say as a one off, every few months you’ll be fine. Crazy how thar size of that mantra/prawn in the flatty.

[@TheFinesseAngler]

Glad I’m not the only one who has issues with Seagull’s 😅. Great vid Mel 👌

[@spikesfishing]

Haha never seen it before, we don’t get that sort of attention in botany!

[@jon-t3b]

Thats Gladesville bridge and its goof fishing there. Especially on the western side near the boatshed.

[@jon-t3b]

We used to catch flathead there back in the eighties with cheap little mister twisters from an 11 ft tinny.

[@downunderdave5417]

thats some sort of Mantis Shrimp

[@newto4361]

Go Melissa,thanks once again for the videos,enjoy watching them,cheers from a fellow fisher person.

[@spikesfishing]

Thank you ♥️

[@adzoutnabout888]

There was a factory in Homebush bay that used to make Agent Orange for the war. After the war they dumped surplus in the bay. They built unit blocks along the foreshores. The dirt had to be burned in kilns before they could build on it. A mate worked in the plant, he was blood tested every fortnight.

[@hugomoitino]

Hi Mel, as always a very entertaining video, I think you should get a good GoPro so you can show everything you want to show We thank you.

[@spikesfishing]

Thank you, I used to use a GoPro but the transferring and editing to my phone was a nightmare to edit and the batteries die so quickly

[@ahmedhamdan7891]

Hey mell good to see you again love to go fishing with u fishing but your boat and mine

[@spikesfishing]

We can certainly do that 👍🏽

[@Bilskirnir030]

I like ur tours 😍 did u ever watch X Files, there was an episode with freaky ship, you might of found it 😝. Oh 16min? No way.

[@spikesfishing]

Yeah with the new M8 it’s so damn easy to get to the Harbour!

[@ahmedhamdan7891]

At the red marker I’ve catch big brim 45-50 snapper and kings

[@spikesfishing]

Yeah wow I have never encountered a king there but I believe it, I will try fishing there again soon. 😍

[@AUSdean01]

Any tips for someone who has just started fishing out of a boat? just fixed up an old tinnie tiny 2 person with a 9.8 on the back looking for some safe spots to fish happy catching anything just wanna get onto some fish haha

[@spikesfishing]

Congrats on your new boat! Where will you be launching from mainly?

[@AUSdean01]

@@spikesfishing trying to learn the Hawkesbury atm but im an hour away from every where roughly think its 48 to parsley bay 45-60 for botany etc so i kinda just pick and choose

[@martyalcorn8990]

Mantis shrimp I think

[@someone_important_]

Food Safety Advice - Sydney Harbour Previous test results have revealed elevated levels of dioxins in fish and crustaceans across Sydney Harbour, including Parramatta River and other connected tidal waterways. Recreational fishing in the Harbour has not been banned, but fishers are urged to follow dietary advice on the consumption of seafood from the Sydney Harbour, Parramatta River and other connected tidal waterways. Fishers can also continue to practise catch and release. Based on advice from an expert panel, the Government is recommending that: No fish or crustaceans caught west of the Sydney Harbour Bridge should be eaten. You should release your catch.

[@adzoutnabout888]

There was a bloke who lived opposite Cabarita who caught and ate mud crabs for years. He is 💀

[@dinosaurking8819]

Mantis shrimp 🤔

[@spikesfishing]

Yep!

[@dapeachy5914]

you look very happy feeding the seaguls. i think would of been better to give back to the sea. feed the other fish

[@spikesfishing]

Haha the fish got to eat the frames and it was just so cool having a boat full of birds ♥️

[@jon-t3b]

If youre not aware theres signs near that boat ramp and along the Parra river shorelines warning to not eat the fish because of possible contamination.

[@miskeen8701]

Wouldnt trust the harbour ethier tbh

[@stevemccormack5856]

Seriously spikes knickers 😂

[@spikesfishing]

Haha yeah they are very cool little shorts 🤣

[@noelceleste3036]

Don’t know why you don’t keep those salmon best snapper bait going

[@donnanaughton756]

Mantis shrimp

[@ronabdilla5306]

That boat ramp the water stinks. No cleaning table no toilets. Although they say go to the oval toilets as I did only to find them locked.🙄 We’re you caught the salmon, that’s goat island. That red blinker is we’re you can sometimes catch kings, Next time put the Yaka on and send it down at the red blinker. The bridge you went under was Gladesville. 😂

[@eddielia3177]

That creature is a Sea Mantis.

[@grantthomas1818]

Flatties still alive...😮 Mantis shimp inside it...???

[@briangardiner8088]

Mantiis shrimp.

[@louisel-khouri1015]

I bet u have a ball! Enjoy Oh yeh the bird was good luck 😂

[@spikesfishing]

Haha yess!

[@trojanone2811]

Mantis Shrimp.

[@spikesfishing]

Yep

[@martyalcorn8990]

Mel shit herself when that gull took the piece a fish

[@glenn5077]

It's a mantis shrimp.

[@spikesfishing]

Yeah seems to be so, what an amazing creature 🔥💪🏽

[@klausgeselle8034]

Bad luck I dont FB and will never

[@spikesfishing]

That’s okay 👍🏽

[@ianbertenshaw4350]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Cape_Don Interesting vessel!

[@spikesfishing]

That’s the one! What happened to the other one next to it, was there last year?

[@ianbertenshaw4350]

@@spikesfishing I think it sank .