Fishing
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Luke from Leisure Coast Bait & Tackle at Corrimal reported that another mixed bag of conditions greeted anglers late last week and last weekend with unfavourable reports for both Saturday and Sunday.
For the diehards, Saturday proved to be the best of the conditions with light westerlies for most of the day and a slight sea.
In saying that however, the fishing was nothing short of tough for the boating fraternity, with snapper being quite difficult over the last couple of weeks with only a handful of solid fish hitting the tables.
The better fish are still coming from the deeper reefs of 50-metre depths plus with plastics still the preferred option.
Flathead up off the northern sand drifts have been the exception to the poor reef fishing results with some solid fish averaging around the 1-kilogram mark from both the shallow and deeper drifts around Stanwell Park and Bulga.
There has been some good kingfish about at the moment with some solid fish cruising around the Port Islands and the bommies around Bellambi and further north.
These better quality kings have usually won their freedom shortly after hook-up owing to the shallow 4-metre depths and inadequate tackle as they have been hanging right in close to the rocks.
There were reports of a couple of fish around Shellharbour nudging the 10 plus kilogram mark as well as a couple near 8-kilograms from the islands. They were presented with live squid and or live slimeys as these two baits are simply the best ‘‘top shelf’’ baits to see you get hooked up to these hard fighting fish.
Rock fishermen are rejoicing at the abundance of good fish at their feet with plenty of kilo-plus rock blackfish and big blue nosed bream about in the washes.
With westerlies keeping the swell at bay, the opportunity to fish the normally out of bounds ledges and low rocks has opened ... but please be careful with the slippery rock growths and occasional swell which might just surprise.
Those spinning the rocks for salmon, tailor and bonito have been finding good numbers off most points and headlands and there have been some impressive tailor about at the moment.
Adam Goode ticked another fish off his bucket list last Saturday when he caught his first mulloway off one of the northern beaches.
There were a few other reports of some good fish off the beaches last week both up and down the coast with a couple nudging the 20-kilogram mark but the covert and cagey attitude surrounding their capture locations continues to be elusive as many hours and late cold nights have gone into locating the better beach gutters.