Fishing trips in Sydney Australia
Fishing trips in Sydney Australia SYDNEY KINGSFORD SMITH AIRPORT Located about 5 miles south of the city center, the north-south runways of Sydney’ s airport extend for most or all of their length into Botany Bay. Australia ’s busiest airport handled nearly 43 million passengers in 2017. While Botany Bay, in the shadow of Sydney , has a great deal of fine sports fishing (and has been a “Recreational Fishing Haven” since 2002, a government designation meaning all commercial fishing is banned), some of the very best spots are right along the airport’s runways. I fished there many, many years ago with Capt. Scott Lyons, who fishes the bay year-round (but more so in summer — December through February), and has for 20 years. He offers this rundown of fish targeted here: kingfish (aka southern yellowtail) and other trevallies, bream (a type of porgy), tailor (aka bluefish in the United ...