Our planet is littered with iconic fishing locations that are renown for outstanding fishing. The Cairns mega marlin fishery. Florida’s flats and tarpon fishing. Hawaii’s blue marlin fishing. Nova Scotia’s bluefin fishery. There are many more and the one thing they all share is a long history of amazing and record breaking captures over many decades. Fishing folklore is written around these places and the fish they produce. Australia has no shortage of iconic fishing locations but most of these all involve fishing from a boat. To find a land based fishing location that consistently produces mind blowing captures is very unique. Land based game fisho’s are a very rare and dedicated breed of angler. As the name suggests, they target gamefish from land based rock platforms and breakwalls. NSW is probably the most popular state for land based game with the northern platforms producing longtail tuna, cobia and Spanish mackerel. However, it is southern NSW where the best land based game fishing occurs. There are numerous suitable rock platforms in southern NSW where gamefish can be caught but the Currarong peninsular east of Nowra really is the mecca of LBG and has been for six decades.
There are several factors that make the Currarong peninsular such
