There was a return of some big kingfish last weekend, especially from around the Bellambi and Port Kembla areas with the Bellambi bommie producing fish to 10 kilo and above.

Down rigging live squid was the gun method but heaps of the bigger kings were just too good for the anglers and many won the battle by rubbing on the bottom.

But of those that did hit the decks, there were smiles all round with the quality.

Brad Gibson nailed his personal best kingie over the weekend with an absolute horse king that measured well over the metre mark and was caught on a slow trolled live yakka.

Along with the kings, there were some very nice boxes of snapper caught, no monster fish but plenty around the 2-3kg mark.

There was no pattern to them this week with numerous boats finding the fish on the shallow reefs whereas some found big schools sitting out over the 50m mark as well.

The flathead bite was nothing short of insane and some massive fish were put on the cleaning tables.

Stanwell Park, Bulli Sands, Scarborough Sands and Wollongong Sands all produced excellent sized fish with the only downside being a few patches of green toads and/or barracouta.

Beaches and rocks both produced some good fish and the stones have had some excellent sized bream and drummer coming in from the washes as well as heaps of big salmon and tailor.

Most ledges had hungry schools of squid with the odd cuttlefish ready to take a jig.

Many of the tailor were well over the 1kg mark and there were some thumpers in the mix to near 3 kilos.

Off the beaches there have been plenty of school mulloway about but with no real monsters as yet.

The whiting were about in good numbers as well as bream and flathead if you have the knack of gathering their favourite bait - the humble beach worm or pipi.

Email: garywade@tpg.com.au