Welcome to Gary Brown Fishing

Back in the early sixties I start fishing the Georges River and Botany Bay for bream, flathead, luderick and whiting, progressing to the Port Hacking and Woronora Rivers, adding leatherjackets, crabs, tailor, mullet and mulloway to the list.

 

When travelling to Queensland for my annual holidays with dad and mum, we would stop off at a number of places so that we could fish our way up to Brisbane. The return trip would be the same as the one going up and fish as many places as the time would allow.

 

I have been fishing off the beaches since I was 10, and the rocks since I was 14 and over the years I have travelled around the coastline of Australia fishing in both very populated and remote areas. In those early years most of my beach and rock fishing was concentrated from Palm Beach in Sydney and down to Seven Mile Beach at Gerroa. It was when I turned 21 that I felt the urge to explore many other beaches and rocks that can be found around Australia. In 1975 I found myself in Western Australia fishing beaches and rock platforms from Yanchep, just north of Perth and south to Margaret River. While over in the west I also fished some of the remote beaches from Cape Freycinet to Albany. On my way back to the east coast of Australia I fished at places like Ceduna, Portland, Barwon Heads, Wilson's Promontory and Mallacoota.

 

Throughout my school and working years I continued to fish venues throughout New South Wales, and then interstate to Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, Queensland and Western Australia. I now live back in Sydney, and while continuing to fish, I have developed, written and taught a course on recreational fishing for TAFE.

 

Over the past 18 years I have taught many anglers how to improve their fishing ability through my "How, Where, When and Why to Fish" classes at a number of tackle shops throughout Sydney. The currents shops are Amazon Outdoor and Tackle at Wetherill Park and Windybanks Bait and Tackle at Mount Colah.

 

I also give fishing and tackle talks to around 6 fishing clubs throughout sydney, Tackle World at Taren Point and BCF at Nowra, Campbelltown, Warrawong and Auburn throughout the year.

 

Over the years I have written 4 books for Australian Fishing Network (AFN). They are Fishing Guide to Sydney and Hawkesbury waterways, How to fish the Beaches and Rocks of Australia, Fishing Guide to South of Sydney and Australia's Favourite Saltwater Fish Species.

 

I have also produced (with the help of Scotty Lyons form Southern Sydney Fishing Tours and Carl Dubois 2 DVD's. They are "A Day on the Bay" and "Port Hacking - The Jewel of the South".