5 years working on the Port Bouvard development and the fishing decks beside the marina were always full of oldies catching mainly herring - a lot of them using floats but i have no idea what type of rig. As for the bottom, i have seen a nice flathead come out of there but not much else while i was watching.

I'm no longer in Perth, so I don't fish the cut anymore, and have only fished it  a few times with my wife's kids some years back. Fishing from the breakwater, on the south side saw us always catch tons of herring. Just use a std burley cage attached to your main and trace with a decent clip each side. Then 600mm or so lighter leader and a small hook loaded with wogs.

Fill the burley cage with a good mixture - cast out - expell the cage a bit with a bit of a tug and you should do well most days.

Great fun on light gear. 

Apparently, there's whiting on the other side around at casting from the jetty near the Crazy Frog (?).

HTH 

Colin Molloy

(Colin 2 - Co-founding member of the prestigious Colin Club)

Hey Boogernissan on your rig lose the snapswivel and using a good knot reattach the hook, snapswivels on a single hook result in poor hookup performance IMO. The running sinker rig which you are using is a good choice for bottom dwellers like Whiting,Bream etc.

Cheers Kev

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Burley cage and a bit of green straw/tube on your hook..herring love it. Best time to fish is when the tide is not racing..have fun

yeah, I have found a burley cage, or a blog with burley hole increase your chances 10 fold in the cut.

a basic burley of pollard, tuna oil, water will help keep the herring around

cheers for the help fellas,ill have to go annd purchase a burley cage as i dont own one,my tackle box has limited equipment at the moment,

ill go fishin in th enext few days and let ya's know how i went

20lb line is too heavy for bread and butter fish like herring try 6lb or 8lb, makes it much funner on the light gear plus they cant really see your line if it is thinner, you might also wanna set up a bigger outfit with 20lb line and chuck out and unweighted mulie and just leave it out there (loosen the drag) while you fish with the lighter gear so then if any bigger fish come along and hook themselves then thats a bonus!!

i went fishing on the jolly frog jetty once and i was using a paternoster rig and i caught some nice tarwhine there on un-shelled prawns .. low tide would probably be better though.

good luck!

the water is too dirty went down on saturday and its brown water and nothing was biting. i also use a paternosta rig with squid and clean u with herring ussually. first time in ten trips we got nothing

Usually do quite well using soft plastics anywhere along the northern (Jolly Frog) side...normally tonnes of herring but if you get the day right there are some chunky salmon trout and skippy (up to 40cm) in the mix. I only fish an incoming tide and if the water's really moving I just cast further "upstream" so my lure stays in the "strike zone" longer.

However, last time out, similar to mike79's experience, water was like coffee and could only manage four salmon trout in an hour's worth of fishing...got 'em on a 4" Squidgie.

There also have been a lot of KG's caught down there over the past three months...they don't seem to be interested in my softies but if I were to target them specifically I'd go a number 4 longshank on a paternoster setup and use bloodworms or fresh squid tentacles, or maybe a small gang with a blue sardine instead. Good luck!