Fisherman injured in Sydney fall

A Sydney fisherman has escaped with only a broken leg after he fell three metres onto rocks in the pitch dark.

The 36-year-old man slipped and fell down an embankment early on Monday while fishing at Balmain's Elkington Park.

He phoned triple-0 just after 1.30am (AEST), telling emergency services he was on the rocks at the base of the park next to the Dawn Fraser Baths, and had broken his leg.

The man, from Granville in western Sydney, was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.