My passion for land-based fishing started by targeting luderick off the headlands of Sydney’s Northern Beaches some years ago. I think for most rock fishos, their start into rock fishing or LBG is something quite similar - basic wash fishing targeting those bread-and-butter species.
Scattered all over the Australian coastline from headlands, rocky beaches, and estuaries, you will very often find an old bloke sporting a shoulder bag and using some variation of a single pin or Alvey set-up with a keep bag full of the iconic striped fish.
I remember my first time targeting them was off the rocks behind an ocean pool. It was a fruitless session and if I remember correctly, so were the following two or three sessions. Understanding what seemed to be a simple float rig system was providing to be quite a headache.
I had originally started on the Avley “blackfish special” which consisted of a 3-5kg 12” rod. The outfit itself didn’t cause the headache, it was the casting that continued to tangle my hook and sinker around the long float, as well as wondering if I was even in the right spot. What once appeared to be a simple way of fishing had proved that
