Whether he comes from Sydney or from out in the bush, the New South Wales fisherman will likely point to the South Coast as his happy fishing ground.
But it’s not just the local fishing gentry among the New South Welshmen who are enamoured of the coastal strip running from just south of Sydney all the way to the Victorian border.
Naturally, towns along the state's central and north coasts might say theirs is the fishing coast of New South Wales.
Fishing region of choice
Fisherfolk from the South Coast's Sapphire Coast point out that American western novelist Zane Grey found their coast his fishing region of choice.
The writer stayed at Bermagui for sometime in the 1930s and in fact drew on his experiences in writing An American Angler in Australia (1937) and Wilderness Trek (1946).
But first things first.
Three separate regions
The New South Wales South Coast actually comprises three separate but contiguous regions:
- The Shoalhaven region which is the closest to Sydney and which has its major townships at Nowra and Ulladulla.
- The Eurobodalla region which takes in Batemans Bay and Narooma farther south.
- The Sapphire Coast region stretching from Bermagui and Cobargo to the Victorian border.
Narooma and Bermagui
For the fisherman driving down the coast from Sydney, likely destinations include the neighboring towns of Narooma and Bermagui, just about 30 minutes apart by car but located in separate regions.
It can as well be any other town on the New South Wales South Coast.
Next page: Narooma: 'Land of Many Waters'
